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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
6959	GRAFTON CITY HOSPITAL	515057	1 HOSPITAL PLAZA	GRAFTON	WV	26354	2013-06-25	492	F	0	1	WVZU11	Based upon record review and staff interview, the facility failed to comply with with State of West Virginia Hospital Licensure, Code 64CSR12, which requires that the governing authority appoint a full time hospital administrator and that if there is a nursing facility unit with more than sixty (60) resident beds, the governing body shall also appoint a qualified administrator who holds a current valid license or emergency permit issued by the West Virginia Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board. This had the potential to result in harm to more than a minimal number of residents. Facility census: 59. Findings include: a) Review of entrance documents and interview with acting administrator, employee #3, on 6/20/13 at 4:00 p.m. found that he was acting as both the full time hospital administrator and as the administrator of the seventy-six (76) bed long term care unit under an emergency permit. He said that the former long term care administrator had quit on 4/19/13, and the position had been vacant for the last two (2) months. He said the vacancy had been advertised, and some applications received, but no applicants had been interviewed or considered. State of West Virginia Hospital Licensure, Code 64CSR12 requires that the governing authority appoint a full time hospital administrator and that if there is a nursing facility unit with more than sixty (60) resident beds, the governing body shall also appoint a qualified administrator who holds a current valid license or emergency permit issued by the West Virginia Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board. The hospital administrator voiced understanding that Hospital licensure rules prohibit him from serving in both positions concurrently.	2017-09-01