SFF Risk Self-Check

A private checklist of the risk indicators CMS's Special Focus Facility selection process actually looks at. This stays on your screen only — it is not a public score, and it cannot see your state's actual comparative ranking, which is the piece that determines real SFF placement.

Your recent surveys have cited noticeably more deficiencies than other facilities in your state

SFF candidates are drawn from facilities with roughly double the average number and severity of deficiencies compared to other facilities in the same state — a relative, not absolute, bar.

You have had an Immediate Jeopardy citation in the last few survey cycles

A history of Immediate Jeopardy findings is one of the clearest severe-noncompliance signals CMS weighs when identifying candidates.

You have corrected a deficiency after one survey, then been cited for the same or a related problem again at the next survey

CMS describes this "yo-yo" pattern — correcting on paper, then falling back into noncompliance — as characteristic of the facilities the SFF program targets.

A recent survey found substandard quality of care

A substandard-quality-of-care finding (broadly, actual harm or worse in a resident-care area) is a heavier-weighted signal than a paperwork or administrative citation.

Check any factors that apply to see how they read together.

This is an educational self-assessment, not a CMS calculation and not a public score of any named facility — nothing entered here is stored or sent anywhere. Real SFF selection is administered by CMS on a state-relative basis and can change every survey cycle; treat this as a prompt to look closer, not a determination.

PoC360's SFF Mode

Auto-detects Special Focus Facility designation and activates a step-by-step Recovery Triage plan — built for facilities already on the list, not just checking their risk of landing on it.

See SFF Mode →

More CMS compliance guides

What Is a Special Focus Facility?Predictive Compliance: Repeat F-Tag Risk Multi-Facility Compliance Tracking