Pennsylvania Nursing Home Compliance Guide
This compliance guide summarizes CMS-derived records for the 658 skilled nursing facilities listed in Pennsylvania. For the 652 facilities with linked history (652 of 658), there are 20,607 cited deficiencies, averaging 31.6 per covered facility; 0 have zero citations in the loaded history, including 250 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 Pennsylvania
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 5,954 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 3,324 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 2,765 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 1,953 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 1,819 citations
- Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies — 1,426 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in Pennsylvania
- F-Tag F0684: Quality of Care — 1,227 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 970 citations
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 811 citations
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 742 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 674 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 611 citations
- F-Tag F0584: Safe/Clean/Comfortable/Homelike Environment — 592 citations
- F-Tag F0641: Accuracy of Assessments — 484 citations
- F-Tag F0600: Free from Abuse and Neglect — 445 citations
- F-Tag F0695: Respiratory/Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning — 433 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 Pennsylvania Compliance Data
- Pennsylvania Nursing Home Scorecard
- Pennsylvania Compliance Benchmark
- Pennsylvania Survey Tracker
- Best Nursing Homes in Pennsylvania
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