F942: Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents
F942 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents.
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). 26.1% of F942 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: B 10, C 4, D 52, E 59, F 28.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F942 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, July 6, 2026, scope and severity EBased on record review and staff interviews it was determined that the facility failed to comply with employee training for staff related to Resident Rights. This was evident for 6 (Staff #16, # 17, #18, #19, #20 and #21) of 6 staff records reviewed during the annual survey.
Autumn Lake Healthcare at Overlea, Baltimore, MD
Inspectors wrote, May 28, 2026, scope and severity EBased on staff interviews and review of facility documentation and policy, the facility failed to ensure that 3-staff members (#44, #168, #182) received annual training on resident rights. The deficient practice could result in staff inappropriately trained regarding resident rights and could place the residents at risk for their safety.
VI at Silverstone, a VI and Plaza Companies Commun, Scottsdale, AZ
Inspectors wrote, May 20, 2026, scope and severity DBased on interview and record review, the facility failed to provide resident rights training for 1 (Operations Manager) of 28 employees reviewed for training, in that: The facility failed to ensure resident rights training was provided to Operations Manager within 21 days of hire, per facility's training policy. This failure could affect residents and place them at risk of being uninformed due to lack of staff training.
Northeast Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, San Antonio, TX
Most recent F942 citations
F942 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: 2022 2, 2023 18, 2024 65, 2025 45, 2026 23.
Common questions
- What is F942 in a nursing home inspection?
- F942 is the federal requirement to "ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents". CMS files it under resident rights. A home cited under F942 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F942 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 153 F942 citations at 141 nursing homes, 35 of them in the 12 months to that date. 0.0% were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
- Is a F942 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F942 citations (90.8%) 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