Georgia Nursing Home Compliance Guide
This compliance guide summarizes CMS-derived records for the 356 skilled nursing facilities listed in Georgia. For the 352 facilities with linked history (352 of 356), there are 5,920 cited deficiencies, averaging 16.8 per covered facility; 0 have zero citations in the loaded history, including 244 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 Georgia
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 1,363 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 1,054 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 987 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 566 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 562 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 492 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in Georgia
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 418 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 404 citations
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 356 citations
- F-Tag F0695: Respiratory/Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning — 259 citations
- F-Tag F0584: Safe/Clean/Comfortable/Homelike Environment — 240 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 238 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 184 citations
- F-Tag F0677: ADL Care Provided for Dependent Residents — 180 citations
- F-Tag F0609: Reporting of Alleged Violations — 148 citations
- F-Tag F0684: Quality of Care — 143 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 Georgia Compliance Data
- Georgia Nursing Home Scorecard
- Georgia Compliance Benchmark
- Georgia Survey Tracker
- Best Nursing Homes in Georgia
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