cms_WV: 8244

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
8244	ELDERCARE HEALTH AND REHABILITATION	515065	107 MILLER DRIVE	RIPLEY	WV	25271	2012-05-03	371	F	0	1	9YCU11	Based on observation and interview, the facility failed to maintain and distribute food under sanitary conditions. This had the potential to affect 105 of 107 residents residing in the facility. Findings include: a) Observation of the food being plated in the kitchen was conducted at 12:15 p.m. on 04/30/12. Dietary staff #17 was observed to pick up plates and bowls with gloved hands and touch the portion of the plate on which the food was placed. She was then observed to touch her hair, glasses, and clothing, and continue with the same practice of touching the portion of the plates she would be placing the food items on. She was observed serving roast beef with a spatula and it was difficult for her to pick up the pieces of meat with this utensil. Wearing the same gloves, she was observed to place the meat on the plate and then used the potentially contaminated gloved hands to hold onto the meat while she cut the meat into pieces. There were times she had difficulty picking the pieces of meat up out of the serving container so she was observed to use the potentially contaminated gloved hands to pick the meat up by sticking her fingers into the container to pick up the meat. At times she was unable to cut the meat with the knife and stated, it is so hard to cut this stuff, so then she would just pull the meat apart with her fingers. This surveyor shared with the dietary staff during this observation the need to change gloves before serving any additional food items due to the potential for cross-contamination. An interview was conducted with the dietary manager and the dietitian at 10:15 a.m. on 05/02/2012. The observations of staff #17 serving food in an unsanitary manner during the first day of the survey were shared at this time. The dietary manager stated this staff member should know better. The dietitian stated it seems once the staff put on gloves they think they can touch anything and then come back to serving food and touching items with the same gloved hands. This allowed for a potential of food borne illness related to the cross-contamination practices observed. Both the dietitian and the dietary manager stated that in-service and education of their staff would be necessary to prevent this from happening again.	2016-07-01