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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
425 MITCHELL COUNTY NURSING HOMES 115266 37 SOUTH ELLIS STREET CAMILLA GA 31730 2019-09-20 912 E 1 0 5G2B11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on observation and staff interviews Facility #2 failed to ensure that three of four residents (R) (R#7, R#8 and R#9) who resided in a four-bed ward had a minimum of 80 square feet of living space per resident in the room. Findings include: During an observation on 9/6/19 at 8:45 a.m., four residents in room [ROOM NUMBER] were observed sharing a room with the beds in close proximity to each other. On 9/6/19 at 11:02 a.m., the Maintenance Director measured the room with a tape measure. The distance between Bed A mattress and Bed B mattress was 38 inches. The distance between Bed B footboard and the head of Bed C was 31 inches. The distance between Bed C mattress and Bed D mattress is 54 inches. The total room measurement was 22 feet 10 inches by 17 feet 4 inches. The storage closet was included in the measurement and was not subtracted from the living space per resident. During an interview with the Maintenance Director on 9/6/19 at 1:44 p.m., he stated the residents in that room did not have 80 square feet of living area per resident. During an interview with Administrator DD, for Facility #2 on 9/6/19 at 1:49 p.m., he stated that there was not a waiver and that room and the room had been like that since 1961. During an observation with the Administrator on 9/11/19 at 11:29 a.m., the Maintenance Director re-measured the room and obtained 17 feet 6 inches by 21 feet as the total room size. The measured living space for Bed A, for R#7, was 9 feet by 5 feet for a total of 45 square feet. However, the wall closet occupied 4.7 feet leaving R#7 with 40.3 square feet of living area. The measured living space for Bed B, for R#8, was 9 feet by 8 feet for a total of 72 square footage living area. The measured living space for Bed C was 12 feet 1 inch by 8 feet for a total of 96.8 square footage of living area. The measured living space for Bed D, for R#9, was 9 feet by 3.5 feet for a total of 27 square feet. However, the wall closet occupied 4.7 feet leaving R#9 with 22.3 square footage of living area. 2020-09-01