F276: Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months
F276 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months.
It sits in CMS's resident assessment and care planning 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 F276 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: D 1.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F276 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, July 13, 2017, scope and severity DBased on clinical record review and staff interviews, the facility staff failed to ensure quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments were completed no less than once every 3 months for 1 of 30 residents (Resident #20) in the survey sample.
Portsmouth Health and Rehab, Portsmouth, VA
Most recent F276 citations
| Inspection | Home | Town | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 13, 2017 | Portsmouth Health and Rehab | Portsmouth, VA | D |
F276 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 F276 in a nursing home inspection?
- F276 is the federal requirement to "assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months". CMS files it under resident assessment and care planning. A home cited under F276 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F276 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 1 F276 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 F276 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F276 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