cms_AK: 40

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
40 WRANGELL MEDICAL CENTER LTC 25015 P.O. BOX 1081 WRANGELL AK 99929 2019-04-24 568 F 0 1 FNNN11 Based on record review and interview the facility failed to provide quarterly statements of personal funds accounts to 6 residents (#1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10), out of 8 sampled residents. This failed practice placed all residents (based on a census of 12) at risk for not receiving a complete and accurate accounting of their personal funds entrusted to the facility. Findings: Review of the facility personal fund accounting record, on 4/18/19 at 12:50 pm, revealed Residents #1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 had personal fund accounts through the facility. During an interview on 4/18/19 at 1:10 pm, the Personal Funds Manager stated the facility did not have a process for providing residents or their representatives a quarterly statement, and as a result, the facility did not provide residents or their representatives quarterly statements of their personal fund accounts. During an interview on 4/19/19 at 11:00 am, the Director of Nursing (DON) stated the facility does not have a policy on personal funds. 2020-09-01