The home failed to honor residents’ choices about treatment, research participation, and advance care instructions. Cited January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
View the original federal record
F-Tag 578 — 42 CFR §483.10 — S/S: D
Nursing home report
UNION CITY, TN · Medicare-certified · 80 beds
THE WATERS OF UNION CITY, LLC has an overall 5 out of 5 stars, with strong health inspection and quality ratings, but a low 2 out of 5 staffing rating and reported nurse staffing below the federal benchmark (3.31 vs 4.1 hours per resident per day). It had $0 in fines in the last 24 months and recent inspection citations related to resident rights, psychotropic medication practices, and food handling.
Health inspections
Staffing
3.3084 hrs/resident/day
Quality measures
Federal guidance recommends at least 4.1 nursing hours per resident each day. This facility reports 3.3084.
Hours per resident per day.
How often residents experience these outcomes, with the direction over the past year.
Long-stay residents on antipsychotic medication
Residents with a fall causing major injury
Residents with pressure ulcers (bedsores)
Residents with a urinary tract infection
Residents who lost too much weight
Residents who were physically restrained
Residents needing more help with daily activities
Residents whose ability to walk got worse
Long-stay residents on antianxiety or sleep medication
Short-stay residents newly given an antipsychotic
Residents with a long-term catheter
Residents with new or worsening incontinence
Residents with depressive symptoms
Long-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
Long-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
Short-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
Short-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
The home failed to honor residents’ choices about treatment, research participation, and advance care instructions. Cited January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
F-Tag 578 — 42 CFR §483.10 — S/S: D
The home failed to properly reduce or limit psychotropic medication use and try safer non-drug approaches when appropriate. Cited January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
F-Tag 758 — 42 CFR §483.45(e) — S/S: D
The home failed to make sure food was safely sourced, stored, prepared, and served according to professional standards. Cited January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
F-Tag 812 — 42 CFR §483.60(i) — S/S: D
The nursing home failed to update each resident’s assessment at least every three months. Cited September 2019 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
F-Tag 638 — 42 CFR §483.20 — S/S: D
The nursing home failed to keep medication mistakes below the allowed level. Cited September 2019 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
F-Tag 759 — 42 CFR §483.45(f)(1) — S/S: D
Reported nurse staffing was below the federal recommendation of 4.1 hours per resident per day.
Health inspection found 3 health deficiencies.
Health inspection found 4 health deficiencies.
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Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — public records, updated monthly. GoodStanding presents official records with plain-language summaries. Always visit a facility in person.