F369: Provide special eating equipment and utensils for each resident who needs them
F369 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Provide special eating equipment and utensils for each resident who needs them.
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 F369 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: D 1.
Most recent F369 citations
| Inspection | Home | Town | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 24, 2017 | St. Martin's in the Pines | Irondale, AL | D |
F369 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 |
|---|---|
| Alabama | 1 |
By inspection year: 2017 1.
Common questions
- What is F369 in a nursing home inspection?
- F369 is the federal requirement to "provide special eating equipment and utensils for each resident who needs them". CMS files it under nutrition and dietary. A home cited under F369 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F369 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 1 F369 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 F369 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F369 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