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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
1481	THE WASHINGTON HOME	95005	3720 UPTON STREET NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20016	2015-05-22	253	E	0	1	X0E311	Based on observations made during an environmental tour of the facility on May 15, 2015 at approximately 11:30 AM, it was determined that the facility failed to provide housekeeping and maintenance services necessary to maintain a sanitary, orderly, and comfortable interior as evidenced by broken slats from window blinds in three (3) of 45 resident's rooms, marred walls in five (5) of 45 resident's rooms, marred entrance doors in seven (7) of 45 resident's rooms, loose wallpaper in the hallways of unit 2B, paint peeling from the ceiling above the resident ' s bed, clear pieces of tape stuck in several areas in the ceiling of room #251 and a missing floor tile in the bathroom of room #251, one (1) of 45 resident's rooms surveyed. The findings include: 1. There was one (1) broken slat from one (1) of one (1) window blind in room #105, two (2) broken slats from one (1) of two (2) window blinds in room #144 and one (1) broken slat from one (1) of two (2) window blinds in room #249, three (3) of 45 resident's rooms surveyed. 2. Walls in five (5) of 45 resident's rooms were marred including rooms #123, #144, #237, #249 and #256 and entrance doors in seven (7) of 45 resident's rooms were marred including rooms #104, #105, #106, #115, #116, #202B and #207B. 3. The wallpaper hanging in the hallways of unit 2B was loose in several areas. 4. The paint was peeling off an area from the ceiling above the resident's bed in room #251B and there were multiple pieces of clear tape stuck to other areas in the ceiling, one (1) of 45 resident's rooms surveyed. 5. There was a floor tile missing in the bathroom of resident room #251 on May 19, 2015 at approximately 12:05 PM, one (1) of 45 resident's rooms surveyed. These observations were made in the presence of Employee #11 and Employee #12 who acknowledged the findings. B. Based on observation and staff interview for one (1) of 37 residents it was determined that facility staff failed to decrease the spread of disease causing organisms as evidence by oxygen tubing lying uncovered on the floor, oxygen bag with tubing inside lying on the floor. Resident #106 The findings include: A resident room observation was conducted on May 15, 2015 at approximately 10:00 AM. The following was observed: In a chair adjacent to the resident ' s bed, was a BiPAP (bi-level positive airway pressure) machine with a face mask and long hose attached. Portions of the hosing was observed uncovered on the floor in front of the chair; oxygen tubing connected to the portable oxygen tank with portions coming in contact with the floor; extra oxygen tubing covered in a plastic bag observed on the floor. A face-to-face interview was conducted on May 22, 2015 with Employee #6 at approximately 11:30 AM. A second observation was made in the room. The tubing from the BiPAP was observed on the floor; the oxygen tubing connected to the portable oxygen tank was observed on the floor, and the oxygen tubing within a bag was observed on the floor. Employee #6 acknowledged the findings.	2017-02-01