F910: Ensure resident rooms meet each resident's needs
F910 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Ensure resident rooms meet each resident's needs.
It sits in CMS's environmental 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). 33.3% of F910 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: B 2, D 9, E 6, F 1.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F910 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, May 7, 2026, scope and severity DBased on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure privacy curtains were in place for one of one sampled residents (Resident 15). This deficient practice had the potential to not honor Resident 15's right to privacy.
View Heights Conv Hosp, Los Angeles, CA
Inspectors wrote, February 24, 2026, scope and severity DBased on observation and interview, the facility failed to ensure resident rooms provided enough space for comfort and privacy for 2 of 3 residents (Resident 1 & 24) reviewed for resident rooms. This failure to provide enough room could lead to a disruption of comfort and a diminished quality of life.
Vancouver Specialty and Rehab Care, Vancouver, WA
Inspectors wrote, December 11, 2025, scope and severity EBased on observations and staff interviews it was determined that the facility failed to provide privacy curtains for three of thirty-two resident rooms and failed to provide clean privacy curtains for eighteen of thirty-two resident rooms located on the 1st floor dementia care unit. Observations made on December 8, 2025, December 9, 2025, and December 10, 2025, of resident rooms on the 1st floor dementia care unit revealed 3 rooms with missing privacy curtains. Observations made on December 8, 2025, December 9, 2025, and December 10, 2025, of resident rooms on the 1st floor dementia care unit revealed 18 rooms with privacy curtains that were soiled or had brown stains on them. [...]
Green Meadows Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Malvern, PA
Most recent F910 citations
F910 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 |
|---|---|
| California | 3 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 |
| Texas | 3 |
| Utah | 2 |
| Florida | 1 |
| Maryland | 1 |
| Ohio | 1 |
| Oregon | 1 |
| South Carolina | 1 |
| Virginia | 1 |
| Washington | 1 |
By inspection year: 2022 2, 2023 1, 2024 5, 2025 6, 2026 4.
Common questions
- What is F910 in a nursing home inspection?
- F910 is the federal requirement to "ensure resident rooms meet each resident's needs". CMS files it under environmental. A home cited under F910 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F910 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 18 F910 citations at 18 nursing homes, 6 of them in the 12 months to that date. 0.0% were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
- Is a F910 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F910 citations (88.9%) 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