F560: Protect a residents' right to refuse some types of non-requested transfers within the nursing home
F560 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Protect a residents' right to refuse some types of non-requested transfers within the nursing home.
It sits in CMS's resident rights 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). 48.0% of F560 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: D 20, E 2, F 3.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F560 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, May 21, 2026, scope and severity DBased on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure a relocation planning conference meeting was held with the resident's responsible party and the Executive Director prior to moving the resident onto a locked memory care unit and prior to moving the resident out of the locked memory care unit and back to the skilled unit for 1 of 1 resident reviewed for transfers. (Resident H)
Harcourt Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, Indianapolis, IN
Inspectors wrote, July 25, 2025, scope and severity DBased on review of clinical records and staff interview it was determined that the facility to ensure that a room change was not completed for staff convenience for one of ten residents (Resident R153).
Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Butler, PA
Inspectors wrote, April 3, 2025, scope and severity DBased on clinical record review, staff interview and facility document review, it was determined that the facility staff failed to honor a resident's right to refuse a room change for one of 17 residents in the survey sample, Resident #3.
Rosedale Health & Rehabilitation, Richmond, VA
Most recent F560 citations
F560 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 |
|---|---|
| Indiana | 3 |
| New York | 3 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 |
| Virginia | 3 |
| Wisconsin | 3 |
| Oregon | 2 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 |
| Arizona | 1 |
| California | 1 |
| Florida | 1 |
| Iowa | 1 |
| Michigan | 1 |
| Washington | 1 |
By inspection year: 2019 1, 2021 1, 2023 1, 2024 13, 2025 8, 2026 1.
Common questions
- What is F560 in a nursing home inspection?
- F560 is the federal requirement to "protect a residents' right to refuse some types of non-requested transfers within the nursing home". CMS files it under resident rights. A home cited under F560 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F560 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 25 F560 citations at 25 nursing homes, 2 of them in the 12 months to that date. 0.0% were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
- Is a F560 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F560 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