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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
11403 GOLDEN LIVINGCENTER - MORGANTOWN 515049 1379 VAN VOORHIS RD MORGANTOWN WV 26505 2009-01-22 441 D     FRRZ11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, medical record review, and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure a sanitary environment to prevent the spread of infections in the facility during treatments provided to residents with known infections. Observation of the treatment nurse (Employee #2) during a treatment found her kneeling beside the resident's bed while applying a dressing to Resident #86's wound; she contaminated her uniform by kneeling on the floor, as she wore no protective clothing during this dressing change. This resident (#86) had a history of [REDACTED]. Resident identifier: #86. Facility census: 89. Findings include: a) Employee #2 During treatment administration on 01/21/09 at 1:10 p.m., observation found the treatment nurse changing a dressing to a pressure sore on Resident #86's coccyx. The treatment nurse knelt on the floor beside the resident's bed while applying the dressing. Although the nurse used universal precautions during the procedure, she did not don protective clothing. By kneeling on the floor, the contaminated her uniform. Medical record review revealed the resident had a history of [REDACTED]. Observation found, upon entering the resident's room, a sign advised visitors of the need for contact isolation and to see the nurse before entering the room. During an interview on 01/21/09 at 4:15 p.m., the director of nursing (DON) agreed the treatment nurse should not have been on the floor of this resident's room while changing the dressing. . 2014-03-01