F914: Provide bedrooms that don't allow residents to see each other when privacy is needed
F914 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Provide bedrooms that don't allow residents to see each other when privacy is needed.
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). 25.5% of F914 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: B 3, D 103, E 53, F 2.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F914 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, July 27, 2026, scope and severity DBased on observation, record review, and interviews with staff, the facility failed to ensure that the required privacy curtain was in place and maintained in a shared resident room for 1 of 6 residents reviewed for privacy (Resident #73).
Cabarrus Health and Rehabilitation Center, Concord, NC
Inspectors wrote, July 15, 2026, scope and severity EBased on observations, interviews, and record review the facility failed to equip privacy curtains to ensure full visual privacy for each resident in 5 rooms (Rooms 114, 301, 303, 307, and 402) of 20 rooms reviewed for privacy. The facility failed to ensure residents in Rooms 114, 301, 303, 307, and 402 had privacy curtains in place to ensure full visual privacy. This failure could place residents at risk of being exposed to people in the hallway during procedures when they are exposed.
Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Galveston, TX
Inspectors wrote, June 12, 2026, scope and severity DBased on observation, resident and staff interview, and a review of clinical records, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure full visual privacy for one of 15 residents reviewed (Resident R9).
Wyndmoor Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Wyndmoor, PA
Most recent F914 citations
F914 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: 2019 2, 2021 8, 2022 5, 2023 35, 2024 36, 2025 45, 2026 30.
Common questions
- What is F914 in a nursing home inspection?
- F914 is the federal requirement to "provide bedrooms that don't allow residents to see each other when privacy is needed". CMS files it under environmental. A home cited under F914 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F914 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 161 F914 citations at 153 nursing homes, 47 of them in the 12 months to that date. 0.0% were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
- Is a F914 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F914 citations (98.1%) 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