cms_GA: 182

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
182 SIGNATURE HEALTHCARE OF BUCKHEAD 115110 54 PEACHTREE PARK DRIVE N.E. ATLANTA GA 30309 2017-05-14 441 D 1 0 S6LJ11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on observations the facility failed to store bed pans and urinals in a sanitary manner on two (2) of three (3) floors. The facility census was one hundred thirty six (136) residents. Findings include: Observations conducted of resident rooms and bathrooms on 5/12/2017 between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. revealed the following: In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] the toilet was found to be off center on the floor and old chaulk subssstance was not around the base but in an area where the toilet base originally was located. Chaulk had been applied to the toilet base where it currently sits in an off center position and the old chaulk had never been removed. There were yellow stains around the base and a strong urine odor. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] an uncovered bed pan was noted on the floor. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] a urine specimen collection pan was noted on the floor uncovered with a brown substance around the edges. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] an uncovered urinal was noted on the toilet tank. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] an uncovered urinal was noted on the toilet tank. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] an uncovered specimen collection device was noted on the floor. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] a bedpan was noted on the floor next to the toilet with dirty tissue in it. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] a bedpan was noted on the floor with a urinal in it and both were uncovered. Another uncovered urinal with a small amount of urine was noted on the other side of the toilet on the floor. Yet another urinal was noted uncovered on the toilet tank with a small amount of what appeared to be urine in the bottom. In the bathroom of room [ROOM NUMBER] an uncovered urinal was noted on the toilet tank with what appeared to be a small amount of urine in the bottom. Observation on 5/14/2017 at 9:00 a.m. revealed house keeping staff actively cleaning rooms and bathrooms that were reported to the Director of Nursing and Administrator on 5/12/2017. 2020-09-01