F362: Hire sufficient dietary support personnel
F362 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Hire sufficient dietary support personnel.
It sits in CMS's nutrition and dietary 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 F362 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: D 1.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F362 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, November 9, 2017, scope and severity DBased on observation, Family and Resident interview, staff interview, facility documentation review, clinical record review, and in the course of a complaint investigation, facility staff failed to employ sufficient support staff to provide timely serving of meals and feeding assistance for 1 resident (Resident #9) in the survey sample of 24 residents. Facility staff failed to provide delivery of the Lunch meal tray and feeding assistance in a timely manner for Resident #9.
Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Colonial Heights, VA
Most recent F362 citations
| Inspection | Home | Town | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 9, 2017 | Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center | Colonial Heights, VA | D |
F362 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 F362 in a nursing home inspection?
- F362 is the federal requirement to "hire sufficient dietary support personnel". CMS files it under nutrition and dietary. A home cited under F362 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F362 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 1 F362 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 F362 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F362 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