cms_AK: 41

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
41	WRANGELL MEDICAL CENTER LTC	25015	P.O. BOX 1081	WRANGELL	AK	99929	2019-04-24	570	F	0	1	FNNN11	Based on record review and interview the facility failed to acquire a surety bond that would financially cover all potential funds within personal funds accounts for 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 being compensated for the potential loss of 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. During an interview on 4/18/19 at 1:10 pm, the Personal Funds Manager stated the maximum amount of cash a resident can have within their personal funds account was $50.00. He/she stated if a resident or their family brought in more than $50.00 to add to their personal funds account, he/she would inform them a checking account would need to be opened at the bank for the extra money over the $50.00 limit. Review of the facility's surety bond Patient Trust Funds Bond, dated 1/14/19, revealed the bond amount was $1,000.00. During an interview on 4/18/19 at 1:25 pm, the Finance Manager stated the surety bond was only for $1,000.00 because residents at the facility could only have $50.00 in their personal funds accounts. He/she stated the total amount for the surety bond was calculated and based off of the $50.00 limit per resident. 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