cms_WV: 10023

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
10023	BARBOUR COUNTY GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY	515116	216 SAMARITAN CIRCLE	BELINGTON	WV	26250	2010-02-11	152	D	0	1	4T1611	. Based on medical record review and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure the rights of one (1) of twelve (12) sampled residents, who had been determined to lack capacity to make informed health care decisions, were exercised by an individual appointed in accordance with State law. The physician appointed two (2) individuals to serve jointly as Resident #49's health care surrogate (HCS); however, WV State Code 16-30-8 allows a physician to appoint only one (1) HCS. Additionally, the facility allowed a family member who had not been appointed to the role of HCS to make health care decisions on Resident #49's behalf. Facility census: 50. Findings include: a) Resident #49 Medical record review revealed the physician appointed two (2) persons to serve jointly as Resident #49's HCS, to make health care decisions for this resident. In addition, record review also revealed health care decisions were being made by the resident's mother, who was had not been appointed to serve as HCS. In an interview with the administrator and the person in charge of resident funds (Employee #5) at 2:15 p.m. on 02/10/10, they acknowledged understanding the State law only allows for the appointment of one (1) person to serve as HCS for an incapacitated individual, and they acknowledged the resident's mother was not the resident's legal representative. They state they would see that all staff was made aware of this. According to WV Code 16-30-8. Selection of a surrogate.: "(a) If no representative or court-appointed guardian is authorized or capable and willing to serve, the attending physician or advanced nurse practitioner is authorized to select a health care surrogate." "(b)(1) Where there are multiple possible surrogate decisionmakers at the same priority level, the attending physician or the advanced nurse practitioner shall, after reasonable inquiry, select as the surrogate the person who reasonably appears to be best qualified." This State law does not allow for the simultaneous appointment of more than one (1) person to serve jointly as HCS for an incapacitated individual. .	2015-07-01