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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
133 HUNTINGTON HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER 515007 1720 17TH STREET HUNTINGTON WV 25701 2017-09-07 412 D 0 1 QLZ111 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, family interview, staff interview, and record review, the facility failed to provide a medicaid resident routine dental services when the resident lost her dentures. This was true for one (1) of three (3) residents reviewed for dental care during Stage 2 of the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS). Resident identifier: #19. Facility census: 180. Findings include: a) Resident #19 During a telephone interview with the resident's responsible party at 9:56 a.m. on 08/29/17, the responsible party expressed concern because the resident's bottom dentures were missing. The responsible party said she was unsure how long the dentures had been missing. The responsible party stated she could not afford to replace the dentures and the facility did not offer to assist with replacing the dentures. At 10:27 a.m. on 08/29/17 the resident was observed in her room without any upper or lower dentures and no natural teeth. At 12:10 p.m. on 08/30/17, Employee #15, the social services manager, said she was unaware the resident's bottom denture was missing. She stated the admission agreement specifies the facility does not replace lost or missing items. At 12:20 p.m. on 08/30/17, the resident was observed to be up in her wheelchair sitting at the nurses station. She had no lower or upper dentures. At 2:23 p.m. on 08/30/17, the unit charge nurse, Registered Nurse (RN) #116 was asked if the resident had dentures. She stated, I knew she had uppers and apparently they are missing now. I just found out, we are looking for them. An interview with the resident's nursing assistant, (NA) # ///, at 2:29 p.m. on 08/30/17 found she knew the resident had upper dentures. I don't know how long they have been missing, I don't remember the last time I saw them. At 2:35 p.m. on 08/30/17 an interview with [NAME] #15 found she was unaware the residents upper dentures were now missing. When asked if the facility arranges for financial assistance to replace the dentures, she stated, We haven't in the past. She verified she was unaware of any appointments made in the past to explore replacing the lower dentures. Review of the resident's personal inventory sheet, completed upon her admission to the facility on [DATE], noted the resident was admitted with both upper and lower dentures. A second personal inventory sheet, completed on 05/21/15, noted the resident only had upper dentures. At 11:28 a.m. on 09/05/17, the Director of nursing was asked if the facility had located the resident's upper dentures. The DON stated the upper dentures had not been located at 4:22 p.m. on 09/05/17. At the same time, the administrator stated if the dentures were affecting her ability to eat she could be sent to see a dentist. 2020-09-01