cms_GA: 3366

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
3366 SOUTHWELL HEALTH AND REHABILITATION 115655 260 MJ TAYLOR ROAD ADEL GA 31620 2018-08-02 761 D 0 1 NKDP11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, policy review and staff interviews, the facility failed to remove expired medications by the expiration date in one out of two medication (med) storage rooms. The facility census was 81 residents. Findings included: During an observation on 7/31/18 at 2:55 p.m. of the North Wing Medication (med) storage room, with LPN BB, revealed ten (10) expired medications. Inside a refrigerator in the med storage room, a small plastic bag contained medication that needed to be refrigerated. The medication was 10 bottles of liquid [MEDICATION NAME] with the expiration date of 12/2017. Interview with LPN BB confirmed that the medication was expired. Further interview revealed that she didn't know who was responsible for removing the expired medication from the refrigerator in the med room. On 8/2/18 review of the Storage of Medications policy dated (MONTH) 3, 2013, revealed that all expired, damaged, mislabeled, and/or contaminated medications should be removed from the storage area for medications available for administration and stored separately. During an interview on 8/2/18 at 10:00 a.m. with the Director of Nursing (DON), revealed that it is her expectation that nursing staff remove expired medication from the medication storage room and be given to her or the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) for them to prepare the medication for destruction by the pharmacy. During an interview on 8/2/18 at 12:45 p.m. with the Consulting Pharmacist revealed that she visits the facility every month. She stated that she checks the refrigerators in the med storage room for expired medication during her monthly visit. Further interview revealed that she checks [MEDICATION NAME] Purified Protein Derivative (PPD), Influenza vaccines, and narcotics. Continued interview revealed that she did not know how the expired [MEDICATION NAME] had been missed during her monthly visits. She stated that her expectation is that narcotics be counted every shift and removed from the refrigerator if expired so that they can't be administered. 2020-09-01