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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
9560 HARPER MILLS 515086 100 HEARTLAND DRIVE BECKLEY WV 25801 2009-11-20 371 F 0 1 5V2011 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to assure foods were prepared and served under conditions which assured the prevention of contamination, and failed to reduce practices which have the potential to result in food contamination and compromised food safety. These practices have the potential to affect all facility residents who receive nourishment from the dietary department. Facility census: 157. Findings include: a) During the initial tour of the dietary department on 11/16/09 at 1:30 p.m., a dietary employee (#171) was observed [MEDICATION NAME] no sanitation techniques and was contaminating the kitchen area as follows: 1. She touched the inside of a waste can when she tossed something into the can and then did not wash her hands. She then walked to the area where the menu was kept and touched the menu. Next she walked over to a food cart containing foods ready to be served and pushed it to another area. 2. Employee #171 was then observed washing dishes. She washed her hands, but there was no waste can in the area. When it was not clear as to how she had disposed of the paper towels, an inquiry was made of her at 1:40 p.m. on 11/16/09. She stated she had thrown the paper towels into the large barrel just outside the dish room door. The barrel was noted to be covered. Upon inquiry, Employee #171 demonstrated that she had opened the cover with her plastic apron. After this demonstration, she was observed in the walk-in cooler pushing a cart containing food ready to be served while wearing the contaminated apron. Further inquiry revealed she had also not changed her apron the first time she lifted the trash barrel lid with the apron. b) At 1:50 p.m., another dietary employee was observed using a cleaning cloth which had been obtained from the cleaning cloth container. Upon inquiry, this person stated she had not prepared the solution in the container, so she did not know whether or not the water in it contained any type of sanitizing solution. This person was asked to check the concentration of the solution but was unable to locate a test strip. Several dietary employees, including the dietary manager, searched for the test strips but were unable to locate them at that time. Further inquiry revealed no evidence the cleaning cloth solution was checked for adequate sanitizing concentration on a routine basis. There were no logs, and staff was unable to describe when this task was performed. 2015-10-01