Alabama Nursing Home Inspection Reports & Survey Activity — 2026
Track CMS survey activity across the 224 skilled nursing facilities in Alabama. Facilities have 2,293 recorded deficiency citations, averaging 10.2 per facility, with 1 reporting zero deficiencies, including 143 at Immediate Jeopardy severity. The most-cited categories and F-Tags below highlight what Alabama surveyors are flagging most, drawn from official CMS Health Deficiency data.
Most-Cited Deficiency Categories in Alabama
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 418 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 396 citations
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 359 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 305 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 278 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 183 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in Alabama
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 272 citations
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 269 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 88 citations
- F-Tag F0641: Accuracy of Assessments — 77 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 70 citations
- F-Tag F0658: Services Provided Meet Professional Standards — 62 citations
- F-Tag F0584: Safe/Clean/Comfortable/Homelike Environment — 58 citations
- F-Tag F0600: Free from Abuse and Neglect — 58 citations
- F-Tag F0814: Dispose Garbage and Refuse Properly — 57 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 53 citations
More Alabama Compliance Data
- Alabama Nursing Home Scorecard
- Alabama Compliance Benchmark
- Alabama State Compliance Guide
- Best Nursing Homes in Alabama
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
- 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