cms_GA: 10619

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.

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rowid facility_name facility_id address city state zip inspection_date deficiency_tag scope_severity complaint standard eventid inspection_text filedate
10619 GLENN-MOR NURSING HOME 115480 10629 U.S. HIGHWAY 19 SOUTH THOMASVILLE GA 31792 2010-08-26 225 D     S0VI11 **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 investigate the cause of a fracture for one resident (#3) from a total sample of 15 residents. Findings include: Resident #3 sustained a moderately displaced and mildly angulated spiral fracture to his/her left distal tibia and fibula that was identified by an x-ray report on 2/8/10. Licensed nursing staff documented in the 2/5/10 at 4:17 a.m. nursing notes that a certified nursing assistant (CNA) had observed that the resident's left ankle had [MEDICAL CONDITION] (swelling) and was painful with movement. However, review of the resident's record revealed no known etiology (cause) for the fracture. The licensed nurse coded the resident as requiring extensive assistance of one staff member (3/2) for bed mobility and dressing on the 12/8/09 quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment. During an interview on 8/25/10 at 9:50 a.m., the Director of Nursing confirmed that the facility did not conduct a thorough investigation to determine the cause of the resident's fracture. 2014-02-01