cms_WV: 6976

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
6976	SUNDALE NURSING HOME	515083	800 J D ANDERSON DRIVE	MORGANTOWN	WV	26505	2014-01-16	431	E	0	1	ONOL11	Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to safeguard medications by keeping them in a locked compartment. The facility did not have medication carts located on the hallways locked on two (2) separate occasions. This was observed on two (2) random observations. This practice had the potential to affect more than a minimal number of residents. Facility census: 87. Findings include: a) During a random observation on 01/13/14 at 12:35 p.m., it was found the medication cart on the Two West Unit was unlocked. Employee #76 (Licensed Practical Nurse-LPN) was dispensing medication from this cart. This employee was out of sight from this cart for approximately five (5) minutes from the time it was first observed to be unlocked. An interview was conducted with Employee #76 (LPN) on 01/13/14 at 12:40 p.m. This LPN stated a resident was yelling and she forgot to lock her medication cart before attending to the resident. This employee verbalized the medication cart was to be locked at all times when not attended by a nurse. b) During a random observation of the One East Unit on 01/15/14 at 9:45 a.m. the medication cart in the hallway was observed to be unlocked. No employees were in view of the medication cart when it was discovered to be unlocked. At 9:48 a.m., Employee #100 (LPN) approached the medication cart and stated she had forgotten to lock the cart before administering medications to a resident. This employee stated the medication carts were to always be locked when unattended.	2017-09-01