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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
10290 UNIHEALTH POST-ACUTE CARE - NORTH AUGUSTA 425296 1200 TALISMAN DRIVE NORTH AUGUSTA SC 29841 2012-02-01 251 C     2C1L11 On the days of the survey, based on interviews and review of the "South Carolina Code of Laws Title 40-Professions and Occupations Chapter 63: Social Workers", the facility, with more than 120 beds, failed to employ a Licensed Social Worker as required by state law. The facility Social Worker had a Bachelor's Degree and had not been licensed. The findings included: During an interview on 02-01-12 with the facility Social Worker, she revealed she had a Bachelor's degree and had not been licensed. During an interview on 02-01-12 with the Administrator, she revealed she did not know a Licensed Social Worker was required. She stated the facility would contract with a Licensed Social Worker as a Consultant to oversee the facility Social Worker at least 20 hours per month. Review of the "South Carolina Code of Laws Unannotated, Current through the end of the 2011 Session, Title 40-Professions and Occupations, Chapter 63: Social Workers" revealed in Section 40-63-30: License as prerequisite to practice or offer to practice; providing social work services through telephone or electronic means. A) No individual shall offer social work services or use the designation "Social Worker", "Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker", "Licensed Masters Social Worker", "Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice", "Licensed Independent Social Worker-Advanced Practice", or the initials "LBSW", "LMSW", or "LISW" or any other designation indicating licensure status or hold themselves out as practicing social work or as a Baccalaureate Social Worker, Masters Social Worker, or Independent Social Worker unless licensed in accordance with this chapter". 2014-01-01