cms_SC: 155

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
155 CARLYLE SENIOR CARE OF AIKEN 425014 123 DUPONT DR NORTHEAST AIKEN SC 29801 2018-11-30 607 D 0 1 JLSM11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to implement the policy related to Abuse for one incident of resident to resident abuse reviewed. The findings include; Res #11 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. On 11/26/2018 at approximately 2:43 PM during a resident interview with this surveyor, Resident #11 indicated that s/he had been kicked on last week by another resident and nothing was done about it. Further interview, the resident explained a male resident had approached him/her, kicked and walked away. After the incident, s/he told Registered Nurse (RN) #2 who then was believed to have told the Director of Nursing (DoN). Further interview with RN #2, s/he stated s/he had told the DoN but had not personally done anything to alleviate or investigate the incident. During record review on 11/28/18 at 9:15 AM, there was no documentation of the alleged incident noted. During an interview with RN#2 on 11/28/18 at 12:28 PM, s/he indicated that s/he had not visibly witnessed the incident, but the resident had made him/her aware and s/he told his/her direct supervisor, the DoN. On 11/28/2018 at 3:26 PM, during an interview with the DoN, s/he stated this was his/her first time hearing of the incident. Review of the facility's policy titled, Resident Rights- Abuse and Abuse Prevention, Neglect and Exploitation provided by the DoN on 11/28/18 at 3:30 PM states response and reporting of abuse, neglect and exploitation- anyone in the facility can report suspected abuse to the abuse agency hotline, when abuse, neglect or exploitation is suspected, the Licensed Nurse should: respond to the needs of the resident and protect them from further incident (Document), notify the Director of Nursing and Administrator (document), and initiate an investigation immediately . 2020-09-01