F577: Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies
F577 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.
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). 8.1% of F577 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: B 74, C 445, D 151, E 137, F 74.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F577 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, June 25, 2026, scope and severity EBased on observation and interview, the facility failed to ensure that the results of the most recent federal or state survey were kept in an area that was readily accessible for review to residents, family members and resident representatives for a confidential group of residents reviewed.
Avista Nursing and Rehabilitation, Saginaw, MI
Inspectors wrote, June 25, 2026, scope and severity FBased on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure the Illinois Department of Public Health survey results were accessible to residents. This failure affects all residents residing in the facility.
Medina Nursing Center, Durand, IL
Inspectors wrote, June 24, 2026, scope and severity DBased on observations and interviews, the facility failed ensure a notice that the availability of all reports related to all annual and complaint surveys from the past 3 years and any plans of corrections (POC) in effect were available for review upon request was posted in a prominent and accessible area.
St. Jude's Health & Wellness Center, New Orleans, LA
Most recent F577 citations
F577 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.
By inspection year: 2018 17, 2019 32, 2020 10, 2021 36, 2022 45, 2023 137, 2024 226, 2025 220, 2026 158.
Common questions
- What is F577 in a nursing home inspection?
- F577 is the federal requirement to "allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies". CMS files it under resident rights. A home cited under F577 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F577 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 881 F577 citations at 851 nursing homes, 211 of them in the 12 months to that date. 0.0% were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
- Is a F577 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F577 citations (41.1%) 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