cms_GA: 8208

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
8208 RETREAT, THE 115675 898 COLLEGE ST MONTICELLO GA 31064 2012-03-29 514 D 0 1 MV1G11 Based on record review and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure that pressure sore documentation accurately reflected residents current medical condition for one (1) resident (#30) out of a sample of twenty-eight (28) residents Findings include: Review of the Wound/Skin Healing Record for resident #30 dated 12/30/11 revealed that the resident had a stage two (2) sacral and coccyx pressure ulcer with a red wound bed measuring 7 centimeters (cms) by 6.2 (cms). Continued review revealed that on 1/6/12, the wound bed was described as eschar, measured at 8cms by 7cms and was still considered a stage 2 pressure ulcer Review of the Minimum Data Set 3.0 dated 1/10/12 revealed that resident was admitted with an unstageable pressure sore. Interview with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) AA, on 3/28/12 at 11:10 a.m.,revealed that a pressure ulcer that has eschar, is an unstageable ulcer and you measure only the eschar. Continued interview revealed that on admission the physician said that the pressure sore was a stage two (2) and believed it was a blood blister; however, according to her training, she would have called the pressure sore unstageable, but did not question the physician. Interview with the Director of Nursing (DON) on 3/28/12 at 11:45 a.m., she concurred that the treatment nurse should have documented the pressure sore on 1/6/12 as unstageable due to the wound bed being eschar. 2016-06-01