cms_WV: 523

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
523	MERCER NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER	515052	1275 SOUTHVIEW DRIVE	BLUEFIELD	WV	24701	2018-04-19	804	E	1	0	DQUX11	> Based on observation, staff interview, family interview and record review, the facility failed to serve foods that are at proper temperature and palatable. This practice has the potential to affect more than a limited number of residents are consume foods served from this central location. Census: 85. Findings included: a) Review of resident council minutes on 04/18/18 revealed the residents had expressed concern with the food being cold. Such things as coffee being cold was listed in the 03/02/18 meeting and then food being cold if you ate in the room. Chicken noodle soup was described as being poured staight out of the can and not heated. b) Confidential family interview on 04/16/18 after lunch revealed the food does not always look appealing or appetizing. Sandwiches will often be a piece of bread with a slice of lunch meat on it. Did not have condiments or anythisg else on the sandwich. c) This was reviewed with the dietary manager on 04/18 /18 in the morning. She verified the residents had expressed concern about cold foods in resident council meetings and they have been attempting to resolve the issue. d) These issues were discussed with the director of nursing and the corporate regional director of operations on 04/18 /18 in the afternoon. e) Random confidential resident interviews During the initial tour on 04/16/18 at 12:45 PM, observations and interviews with several randomly chosen residents having lunch in their rooms revealed complaints of food being served cold. One resident stated, Lunch is warm today, but it is not always. Another resident said, Sometimes it's cold, the meals were sometimes cold on a few days last week. A different resident shared, Most of the time it (meals) is cold. On 04/17/18 at 3:59 PM, an interview with the Resident Council President revealed a recurring problem about food being served cold, that was supposed to be served hot. The Resident Council President said, The food was cold just the other day, and one day last week, everyone in the dining hall was talking about it.	2020-09-01