cms_GA: 5414

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
5414	RIVERSIDE HEALTH CARE CENTER	115375	5100 WEST ST NW	COVINGTON	GA	30014	2015-04-03	253	E	0	1	NBZI11	Based on observation and interview the facility failed to ensure that housekeeping and maintenance services were provided to ensure a clean environment and furnishings in good repair. This had the potential to affect 28 out of approximately 80 resident rooms in the facility. Findings include: On 3/30/15 and 3/31/15 during observation of the rooms for 40 Stage 1 sample residents, 28 resident rooms were found to have walls, floors, dressers, doors or other areas in need of repair. On 4/2/15 from 3:45 p.m. to 4:55 p.m., a tour was conducted with the Maintenance Director, Housekeeping Supervisor and Environmental Manager to observe to the physical environment in the following rooms (Rooms 212B, 216B, 221A, 221B, 222A, 223A, 225A, 227A, 302A, 302B, 305A, 305B, 403B, and 418A). The tour revealed: Room 212: bottom drawer of dresser was difficult to open and missing a piece of wood. Paint was peeling around the ceiling light in the bathroom. Room 216: dresser drawer had scratched wood. The wall was dented. The side of the resident's bed had scratched and chipped wood. Room 222: bathroom wall was scratched. There were black marks on the bottom of the wall. The door to the entrance of the room was scratched. Room 223: walls had black scratch marks. Orange marks were located on the ceiling. Bathroom door had scratch marks. Wood was loose on the side of the over-the-bed table/tray. Room 225: bathroom walls had black scratch marks. Dresser drawers were smaller than the spaces for the drawers. Room 227: dresser drawer had scratched, chipped wood and missing wood pieces. Door to the room and bathroom had scratched and chipped wood. Room 302: dresser drawer had chipped wood. The plywood located on the edge of the counter to the sink in the bathroom was chipped. Air conditioning vent in the bathroom had dust. Room 305: wall between the dresser and bathroom had black scratch marks. The baseboard was scratched and had chipped wood. Room 403: floor was not flush to the baseboard on the wall, leaving an open space under the baseboard. The floor appeared to have black marks in the open space. Room 418: bed frame had rust. The top portion of a white cabinet in the room was not secure to the cabinet. Door to the bathroom had chipped and scratched wood. During an interview with the the Maintenance Director on 4/2/15 at 3:11 p.m., he stated the facility used an electronic preventive maintenance program, called Maintenance Care. He also stated this was a computerized program that anyone in the building could access to enter work orders for maintenance repairs. Further interview with the Maintenance Director on 4/2/15 at 5:00 p.m., confirmed repairs were needed in each of the rooms identified above. However, he provided no evidence these areas had previously been identified as needing repair. On 4/3/15 at 10:15 a.m., an interview with the Administrator revealed that the facility did not have any written documentation relative to a Preventive Maintenance program.	2018-09-01