cms_GA: 4309

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
4309	ZEBULON PARK HEALTH AND REHABILITATION	115295	343 PLANTATION WAY	MACON	GA	31210	2016-06-17	156	D	0	1	XJQ911	Based on record review and staff interview, the facility failed to provide the Skilled Nursing Facility Advanced Beneficiary Notice (SNFABN), to allow the beneficiary to make an informed decision related to continuance of Medicare skilled services and the financial responsibility for those services if Medicare does not reimburse. This notice was not provided for three (3) of three (3) residents (#97, #110, and #224). From a sample size of thirty-three (33). The reviewed were the resident's discharged from skilled Medicare services and remained in the facility. Findings include: A review of the Liability Notices for residents #97, #110, and #224 was conducted and revealed that they were discharged from skilled Medicare services and remained in the facility. Further review revealed the only notice provided to the residents was the Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage. There was no evidence that the facility had issued an SNFABN (Centers of Medicare/Medicaid Services - CMS form ) notice to the residents, providing the opportunity to continue with skilled services, at their cost, if Medicare did not reimburse. Interview on 06/17/16 at 9:20 a. m. with the Case Manager (CM)/Discharge Planner revealed that he/she was not familiar with the CMS form . Continued interview revealed that he/she provided residents with a verbal notice of their right to appeal. The CM confirmed that no training on providing CMS form had been provided by previous CM. The CM confirmed that the three (3) residents reviewed were only provided the non-coverage form and were not provided the SNFABN form. The CM confirmed that there is no facility policy on providing the CMS form .	2019-11-01