cms_GA: 10608

In collaboration with The Seattle Times, Big Local News is providing full-text nursing home deficiencies from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These files contain the full narrative details of each nursing home deficiency cited regulators. The files include deficiencies from Standard Surveys (routine inspections) and from Complaint Surveys. Complete data begins January 2011 (although some earlier inspections do show up). Individual states are provides as CSV files. A very large (4.5GB) national file is also provided as a zipped archive. New data will be updated on a monthly basis. For additional documentation, please see the README.

This data as json, copyable

rowid facility_name facility_id address city state zip inspection_date deficiency_tag scope_severity complaint standard eventid inspection_text filedate
10608 FORT GAINES HEALTH AND REHAB 115696 101 HARTFORD ROAD, WEST FORT GAINES GA 39851 2010-11-17 205 D     9ZTI11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and staff interview, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that, two residents (#1 and #2) of three residents who were transferred out of the facility, their family members were provided written information which specified the duration of the facility's bed hold policy from a total sample of five residents. Findings include: The facility's Admission Agreement included a policy on bed holds. The agreement documented the resident and a family member or legal representative would be given notice of the bed hold option at the time of hospitalization or therapeutic leave. The Social Service Director stated during an interview on 11/17/10 at 2:05 p.m., that the bed hold policy was supposed to be sent with residents during transfers out of the facility. However, she said that she did not know if it was being done. She was not sure who was assigned responsibility for sending out the notices. She stated that if the facility was sending it, should have been documented "somewhere." 1. There was a 9/10/10 physician's orders [REDACTED]. However, there was no evidence to indicate that the resident and family had been given written notice which specified the duration of the facility's bed hold policy at the time he/she left the facility. 2. Resident #2 was hosptalized on [DATE] and again on 10/12/10 due to an acute change in condition. However, there was no evidence that the resident and family were given written notice which specified the duration of the facility's bed hold policy at the time the resident left the facility. 2014-03-01