cms_AL: 1043

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
1043 PARKWOOD HEALTH CARE FACILITY 15179 3301 STADIUM DRIVE PHENIX CITY AL 36867 2017-06-22 160 E 1 0 B1DM11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on an interview and review of Resident Identifier (RI) #s ,[DATE]'s trust fund accounts, the facility failed to ensure the remaining balances in the residents' trust fund accounts were returned to the appropriate agency or sponsor within the thirty days following the residents' deaths. This affected four of eight expired residents whose trust funds were reviewed. Three expired residents had funds which should have been returned to the Social Security Administration, and one expired resident had funds which should have been returned to the sponsor. Findings include: On [DATE] a review was conducted of the resident's trust fund accounts managed by the facility. There were four resident accounts whose balances had not been cleared within the thirty mandated disbursement requirement after discharge or death. Resident Identifier (RI) #20 was discharged from the facility to the hospital on [DATE], and the final check was written to clear RI #20's account on [DATE], four days after the thirty day deadline. RI #21 expired on [DATE], but RI #21's account was not cleared until [DATE], 54 days after the thirty day deadline. RI #22 expired on [DATE], but the final disbursement was not made until [DATE], 117 days after the thirty day deadline. RI #23 expired on [DATE], and the clearing of the account was pending as of [DATE]. On [DATE] at 11:10 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Savings Time), an interview was conducted with Employee Identifier (EI) #1 the Administrative Assistant. EI #1 was asked if the trust fund accounts had been cleared for RI #20, 21, 22, and 23. EI #1 stated RI #s 20, 21 and 22's accounts have been cleared but more than thirty days after their death and RI #23's account was still waiting to be cleared. EI #1 was asked if the agency/sponsor should have been paid within the thirty day deadline. EI #1 said Corporate did not want a check sent because the Social Security Administration would take the money out of the accounts electronically and make a negative balance. EI #1 was asked when the accounts should have been cleared, EI #1 replied, Thirty days or less. 2020-09-01