cms_WV: 198

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
198	MADISON PARK HEALTHCARE	515021	700 MADISON AVENUE	HUNTINGTON	WV	25704	2019-04-11	880	D	0	1	M7ZP11	Based on observation, resident interview, and staff interview , the facility failed to implement an ongoing infection prevention and control program (IPCP) to help prevent, recognize, and control the onset, cross-contamination, and spread of infection to the extent possible. A random observation of two nurse aides tidying a dependent resident's bed revealed a breach in infection control principles when a nurse aide held the used bed linens against her uniform. This practice had the potential to affect more than limited number of residents. Resident identifier: #17. Facility census: 39. Findings included: a) Resident #17 Observations, on 04/10/19 at 5:22 PM, revealed Nurse Aide (NA#25) and Nurse Aide (NA#40) in Resident (R#17)'s room. The resident was lying in the bed, NA #25 was straightening the bed linens, and NA#40 was standing at the left side foot of the resident's bed with her arms full of a large amount of wadded up blankets against the uniform of her upper body. Interview with the nurse aides confirmed the blankets NA#40 was holding had just came off the resident's bed. NA #25 said she was straightening the bed and piled the blankets in NA#40's arms to get them out of her way as she was fixing the bed. Both NA #25 and NA#40 confirmed and acknowledged holding used bed linens against their uniform was a breach in infection control principles they were taught in their nurse aide training. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) laundry includes resident's personal clothing, linens (i.e. sheets, blankets, pillows), towels . CMS Guidance for handling laundry includes, The facility staff should handle all used laundry as potentially contaminated and use standard precautions. CMS Guidance states one of the practices facilities should use, is; Staff should handle soiled textiles/linens with minimum agitation to avoid the contamination of air, surfaces, and persons. Guidance from CMS also states, The facility practices must include how staff will handle and transport the laundry with appropriate measures to prevent cross-contamination. This includes but is not limited to the following; Contaminated linen and laundry bags are not held close to the body . ;	2020-09-01