cms_GA: 9711

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
9711	GOLDEN LIVINGCENTER - WINDERMERE	115291	3618 J DEWEY GRAY CIRCLE	AUGUSTA	GA	30909	2010-08-26	309	D	0	1	DEJ311	Based on record review and staff interview the facility failed to ensure that a surgical referral ordered by the physician was followed for one (1) resident (#21) on a sample of twenty- four (24) residents. Finding included. Review of a Nurses Note dated 6/04/10 at 2:00 pm documented resident #21 was noted that the resident's fifth (5th) finger of the right hand was painful to touch and bruised. The physician was notified and the physician ordered an X-ray the right hand. Review of radiology report dated 6/04/10 document the right hand showed a fracture at the base of the fifth proximal phalanx (finger). Further review of this report revealed the physician signed the report and documented on the report that the resident was to be referred to a orthopedic surgeon. There was no evidence in the resident's record that a orthopedic surgeon referral had been done. Interview with the Director of Nurses on 8/25/10 at 11:55 am revealed the resident was never referred to a orthopedic surgeon for the fractured 5th finger.	2015-05-01