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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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168 ST. BARBARA'S MEMORIAL NURSING HOME 515012 PO BOX 9066 FAIRMONT WV 26555 2019-06-26 584 E 1 0 UZ4411 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on observation and staff interview the facility failed to ensure a safe, comfortable, orderly, homelike environment. The screens in the windows of ten (10) out of thirty (30) resident rooms were either torn or not adequately secured snugly to the window. This had the potential to allow entrance of insects or flies into resident rooms. Rooms: 27, 29, 24, 21, 20, 18, 15, 13, 10, 9. Facility census: 53. Findings included: a) room [ROOM NUMBER] On 06/25/19 at 9:45 AM an inspection was made of room [ROOM NUMBER]. The first bed was stripped bare. A tag on the foot of the bed noted this bed was deep cleaned by housekeeping staff on 06/22/19. Resident #49 lay in the bed by the window. The large picture window in this room was closed. A screen was observed in the middle section of the picture window. When asked if she ever opened this window, she replied in the affirmative. The interim director of nursing (DON) unlocked the window and slid it toward the right. The screen had a tear in the lower left corner which was opened to about a two (2) inch by two (2) inch hole. This hole could allow entrance of an insect or a fly into the room if the window was to be opened. The interim DON said she did not know this window could be opened or ever was opened. She noted that the screen also did not fit tightly against the window pane and was loose. She said she would have maintenance make the necessary repairs to this window screen. When asked if a visitor or family member of either resident in this room could potentially have opened the window and let a fly into the room, she said she guessed that was possible. The interim DON informed the administrator of the window screen situation. The administrator then gave directives to the maintenance department to check all the windows in resident rooms for tears in screens or for ill-fitting screens. b) A tour of the facility to check the windows and screens of resident room was conducted on 06/25/19 from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM. The following issues were found as follows: 1. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The screen does not fit the window securely. There was a small hole in the screen on the right lower corner where it was not flush with the window. 2. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The right side of the screen does not fit tightly. There screen had a gap at the bottom of the window about twelve (12) inches wide. The frame of the screen did not fit well. 3. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The screen on the right toward the bottom corner had a small hole. There was a small hole in the middle on the bottom portion. 4. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The screen had two (2) small holes on the bottom left and middle. 5. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The screen on the lower middle and lower right side had had two (2) small holes. 6. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The screen was loose and did not fit tightly against the metal frame about ten (10) to twelve (12) inches on the left lower side. 7. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The screen on the right side of the left window did not fit snugly against the metal frame. 8. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The left side and the top of the left window screen was very loose. 9. room [ROOM NUMBER] - The lower left area of the screen in the right window has an open area. c) A tour of the facility was conducted with the interim DON on 06/26/19 at approximately 3:00 PM. She agreed with the findings. The window screen in room [ROOM NUMBER] had been repaired. 2020-09-01