cms_AZ: 3265

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
3265 SANTA ROSA CARE CENTER 35004 1650 NORTH SANTA ROSA AVENUE TUCSON AZ 85712 2015-06-05 226 D 0 1 4FGO11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on a review of the clinical record, facility documentation, resident and staff interviews, and policy review, the facility failed to ensure that the abuse policy and procedures regarding the misappropriation of resident property were implemented for two residents (#4 and 86). Findings include: -A review of the facility's investigative documentation revealed that resident #4 had alleged that money was stolen from the side pocket of her wheelchair on (MONTH) 18, (YEAR). According to the report, the resident had reported the incident to the unit manager, and an investigation had been conducted. However, the documentation did not include any evidence that the allegation of misappropriation of resident property had been reported to the State agency, per the facility's abuse policy. An interview was conducted on (MONTH) 5, (YEAR), with the Director of Nursing (DON) who initially stated that the allegation of misappropriation of resident property had not been implemented, because the resident had a history of [REDACTED]. The DON later stated that the facility's policy and procedure regarding an allegation of misappropriation of resident property should have been implemented. -During the survey, on (MONTH) 2, (YEAR), the DON was informed that resident #86 had reported an allegation of resident to resident physical abuse. During an interview with the DON on (MONTH) 3, (YEAR), which was 24 hours after the DON had been provided this information, the DON stated that she had not initiated an investigation. She stated this was due to the fact that there had been no evidence that this resident had been involved in a physical altercation with any other resident. She further stated that based on that, she had no need to initiate an investigation. According to the abuse policy, the purpose is to provide guidelines and specific procedures for the protection of residents and the investigation of allegations of abuse, neglect, or an injury of an unknown source. The policy also included that allegations of abuse must be investigated and eliminate the potential for further abuse of that resident and all other residents, by separating or removing the potential threat be it a resident peer etc. Review of a policy titled, Investigation and Reporting of Allegations of Resident Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation, or Resident Injuries of Unknown Origin, revealed that the DON or Administrator must report incidents or allegations of abuse .to the State agency immediately (within 24 hours). 2019-03-01