F-Tag F0924 — Corridors Have Firmly Secured Handrails
Category: Environmental Deficiencies
F-Tag F0924 is a CMS skilled-nursing-facility regulatory requirement covering corridors have firmly secured handrails. According to official CMS Health Deficiency data, this tag has been cited 186 times across 182 unique facilities. The top recorded severity for this tag is F.
Put firmly secured handrails on each side of hallways.
Top-Cited States for F-Tag F0924
- Maryland — 20 citations
- Missouri — 19 citations
- California — 16 citations
- Illinois — 15 citations
- New York — 10 citations
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