cms_AK: 72

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
72	WRANGELL MEDICAL CENTER LTC	25015	P.O. BOX 1081	WRANGELL	AK	99929	2018-04-30	838	D	0	1	O8F911	Based on record review and interview the facility failed to ensure the facility assessment identified the clinical needs of residents with pacemakers in the facility, as well as, competency opportunities for staff caring for the pacemakers. This failed practice placed 1 resident (#1) out of 1 Resident with a pacemaker at risk for not having necessary cardiac monitoring equipment and care. Findings: Review of the facility assessment on 4/24-27/18, revealed the facility assessment had not identified Resident #1 who had a cardiac pacemaker who needed special monitoring equipment and care. During an interview on 4/27/18 at 2:58 pm, the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) stated she did not know there was a Resident in the facility who had a pacemaker. The CNO further disclosed the resident was not identified in the facility assessment. In addition, the assessment did not identify any special training or care the Resident would require.	2020-09-01