F285: Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program for mentally-ill and mentally-retarded patients
F285 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program for mentally-ill and mentally-retarded patients.
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 F285 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: D 1.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F285 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, August 10, 2017, scope and severity DBased on staff interview, clinical record review, and review of the facility's policy the facility staff failed to ensure that an individual with intellectual disability, care and services incorporated the recommendations from the PASRR level II determination and to ensure further Community Service Board services were incorporated into the resident's assessments and care plan for 1 of 35 residents (Resident #17), in the survey sample.
Nans Pointe Rehabilitation and Nursing, Suffolk, VA
Most recent F285 citations
| Inspection | Home | Town | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 10, 2017 | Nans Pointe Rehabilitation and Nursing | Suffolk, VA | D |
F285 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 F285 in a nursing home inspection?
- F285 is the federal requirement to "coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program for mentally-ill and mentally-retarded patients". CMS files it under resident assessment and care planning. A home cited under F285 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F285 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 1 F285 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 F285 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F285 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