cms_DC: 52

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
52 SERENITY REHABILITATION AND HEALTH CENTER LLC 95015 1380 SOUTHERN AVE SE WASHINGTON DC 20032 2017-06-27 309 D 0 1 R92T11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, record review and staff interview for one (1) of 29 sampled residents, it was determined that facility staff failed to assess the blood pressure (B/P) before administering one (1) resident's antihypertensive medication ([MEDICATION NAME]) (Resident #169.) The findings include: On (MONTH) 20, (YEAR), at 9:52 AM, during a medication administration observation, Employee #5 was observed administering [MEDICATION NAME] (antihypertensive medication) tablet 10 mg to Resident #169. Before administering the [MEDICATION NAME], the employee failed to assess the resident's B/P. A medical record on (MONTH) 20, (YEAR) revealed a physician's orders [REDACTED]. Hold if SBP During a face-to-face interview conducted with Employee #5, immediately after the administering of the [MEDICATION NAME], the surveyor asked the employee the rationale for the lack of assessment of the resident's B/P. Employee# 5 responded, I meant to take it, but I forgot. I was nervous because you were watching me. The employee assessed the resident's blood pressure which revealed a reading of 141/98. Employee# 5 acknowledged the findings. 2020-09-01