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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.

This data as json, copyable

rowid facility_name facility_id address city state zip inspection_date deficiency_tag scope_severity complaint standard eventid inspection_text filedate
171 CARLYLE SENIOR CARE OF AIKEN 425014 123 DUPONT DR NORTHEAST AIKEN SC 29801 2018-11-30 924 D 0 1 JLSM11 Based on observation and interview, the facility failed to ensure that handrails were installed as required on one of 4 halls. The findings included: Observations on all days of the survey revealed 3 sections of handrails missing on[NAME]Hall. Two sections were missing, one on either side of the Conference room, and one section was missing between the patio exit (across from the Conference Room) and the fire doors. During an interview on 11/28/18 at 8:16 AM, the Maintenance Supervisor and Administrator were measuring the walls and verified that (2) 4' and (1) 8' sections of handrails had not been installed. 2020-09-01