cms_WV: 10300

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
10300	PUTNAM CENTER	515070	300 SEVILLE ROAD	HURRICANE	WV	25526	2012-01-06	492	E	1	0	TQXO11	. Based on observation, staff interview, and review of "The Health Insurance Portability and Accountably Act of 1996 (HIPAA)", the facility failed to ensure individually identifiable health information was safeguarded for four (4) of one hundred fourteen (114) current facility residents and eight (8) former residents. Resident identifiers: #52, #107, #106, and #97. Facility census: 114. Findings include: a) Residents #52, #107, #106, #97, and eight former residents Observation of the dumpster area, on 01/04/12 at 2:45 p.m., noted Employee #85, a business office employee, exiting the building with two (2) large clear plastic bags of what appeared to be shredded paper. The contents of one (1) of the clear plastic bags spilled onto the loading dock. Employee #85 reentered the building to obtain another bag. Inspection of the paper spilled on the loading dock found it contained twelve (12) intact pages of weekly skin assessments. These contained resident names, room numbers, and assessments of the condition of their skin. These assessments included explicit information concerning the condition of abdominal folds, groin folds, beneath breasts, etc. Employee #85 was asked why these documents had not been shredded. The employee stated the shredder had broken. Review of the HIPAA Act found the facility was a covered entity responsible for safeguarding protected health information. The facility failed to comply with this requirement. .	2015-05-01