Alaska Nursing Home Compliance Guide
This compliance guide summarizes CMS-derived records for the 20 skilled nursing facilities listed in Alaska. For the 20 facilities with linked history (20 of 20), there are 532 cited deficiencies, averaging 26.6 per covered facility; 0 have zero citations in the loaded history, including 5 coded at Immediate Jeopardy severity. F-Tag and category counts describe the loaded records and do not predict a future survey.
Most-Cited Deficiency Categories in Alaska
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 103 citations
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 99 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 71 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 69 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 56 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 43 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in Alaska
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 35 citations
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 31 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 25 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 24 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 22 citations
- F-Tag F0657: Care Plan Timing and Revision — 20 citations
- F-Tag F0684: Quality of Care — 18 citations
- F-Tag F0550: Resident Rights/Exercise of Rights — 17 citations
- F-Tag F0757: Drug Regimen is Free From Unnecessary Drugs — 12 citations
- F-Tag F0755: Pharmacy Services/Procedures/Pharmacist/Records — 11 citations
Sources and methodology
Source: CMS nursing-home Provider Data. POCDesk aggregates citations present in the loaded Health Deficiencies records; it does not create CMS ratings or recommendations. See the editorial standards and methodology and 42 CFR Part 483.
More Alaska Compliance Data
- Alaska Nursing Home Scorecard
- Alaska Compliance Benchmark
- Alaska Survey Tracker
- Best Nursing Homes in Alaska
Explore POCDesk — Free Nursing Home Compliance Tools
- SNF Scorecard — look up any facility's inspection record
- Nursing Home Compare Tool — side-by-side comparisons
- Skilled Nursing Near Me — find facilities by city & state
- Best Nursing Homes by State — ranked by inspection results
- Survey Tracker — recent CMS survey activity
- F-Tag Reference Guide — every CMS deficiency tag
- Plan of Correction (POC) Complete Guide
- Free AI POC Generator
- Plan of Correction Examples
- CMS Survey Preparation Guide
- Practical SNF Answers
- SNF Compliance Guides
- What Is Skilled Nursing Care?
Official Sources
POCDesk analyzes official government data. Verify any facility's record or read the underlying regulations at these primary sources:
- Medicare.gov Care Compare — CMS's official nursing home comparison tool
- CMS Provider Data Catalog — the raw nursing home inspection & deficiency datasets
- CMS Nursing Home Certification & Compliance — enforcement policy and the Special Focus Facility program
- 42 CFR Part 483 (eCFR) — the federal requirements of participation behind every F-Tag
- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center — free advocacy help for residents and families