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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
69 WRANGELL MEDICAL CENTER LTC 25015 P.O. BOX 1081 WRANGELL AK 99929 2018-04-30 759 D 0 1 O8F911 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review, observation, and interview the facility failed to ensure medication error rate was less than 5%. Specifically, 2 residents (#s 7 and 10), out of 4 residents observed receiving medications, were free of medication errors. This failed practice placed the residents at risk for over medication. Findings: Resident #7 Record review on 4/23-27/18, revealed Resident #7 was admitted to the facility with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Review of Resident #7's physician orders [REDACTED]. During an observation on 4/24/18 at 8:58 am, Licensed Nurse (LN) #1 performed medication administration at Resident #7's bedside. The LN gave Resident #7 his/her [MEDICATION NAME] bottle to self-administer the medication. Resident #7 was observed to self-administer 2 sprays in each nostril. LN #1 did not correct this dosing error or provide education. Resident #10 Record review on 4/23-27/18, revealed Resident #10 was admitted to facility with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Review of Resident #10's physician orders [REDACTED]. During an observation on 4/25/18 at 7:18 am, LN #1 performed medication administration at Resident #10's bedside. The LN gave Resident #10 his/her [MEDICATION NAME] bottle to self-administer the medication. Resident was observed to self-administer 2 sprays in each nostril. LN #1 did not correct this dosing error or provide education. During an interview on 4/27/18 at 2:00pm, LN #1 confirmed he/she did see both Residents dispense 2 sprays of [MEDICATION NAME] in each nostril and that he/she did not correct the dosing error or provide education on correct dosing. 2020-09-01