F250: Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life
F250 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
It sits in CMS's quality of life and care category.
CMS Health Deficiencies file, data as of September 1, 2026. The files hold each home's last three standard inspections and three years of complaint visits.
How seriously inspectors rate it
Every citation gets a letter for how much harm inspectors found and how many residents it touched (how to read the letters). 0.0% of F250 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: E 1.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F250 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, March 23, 2017, scope and severity EThe facility failed to provide medically related social services for 1 out of 15 residents as evidenced by the facility choosing not to follow the wishes of the legal power of attorney (POA) but following the wishes of the non-POA for her mother's diet.
Potomac Falls Health & Rehab Center, Sterling, VA
Most recent F250 citations
| Inspection | Home | Town | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 23, 2017 | Potomac Falls Health & Rehab Center | Sterling, VA | E |
F250 citations by state
Counts depend on how many homes a state has and how often its inspectors visit, so a larger number is not by itself a worse record.
| State | Citations |
|---|---|
| Virginia | 1 |
By inspection year: 2017 1.
Common questions
- What is F250 in a nursing home inspection?
- F250 is the federal requirement to "provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life". CMS files it under quality of life and care. A home cited under F250 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F250 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 1 F250 citations at 1 nursing homes, 0 of them in the 12 months to that date. 0.0% were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
- Is a F250 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F250 citations (100.0%) were rated as potential for more than minimal harm, D to F. None in the current files is at the immediate jeopardy level.
The interpretive guidance inspectors use for each F-tag is CMS's State Operations Manual, Appendix PP. NursingHomeClear reports the citations as CMS records them and is not affiliated with CMS. All F-tags · Methodology