Massachusetts Nursing Home Compliance Guide
This compliance guide summarizes CMS-derived records for the 341 skilled nursing facilities listed in Massachusetts. For the 339 facilities with linked history (339 of 341), there are 10,905 cited deficiencies, averaging 32.2 per covered facility; 0 have zero citations in the loaded history, including 99 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 Massachusetts
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 2,791 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 2,258 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 1,575 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 1,146 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 904 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 644 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in Massachusetts
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 577 citations
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 543 citations
- F-Tag F0658: Services Provided Meet Professional Standards — 468 citations
- F-Tag F0842: Resident Records-Identifiable Information — 456 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 386 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 382 citations
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 360 citations
- F-Tag F0695: Respiratory/Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning — 277 citations
- F-Tag F0580: Notify of Changes (Injury/Decline/Room etc.) — 241 citations
- F-Tag F0550: Resident Rights/Exercise of Rights — 239 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 Massachusetts Compliance Data
- Massachusetts Nursing Home Scorecard
- Massachusetts Compliance Benchmark
- Massachusetts Survey Tracker
- Best Nursing Homes in Massachusetts
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