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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
80	SERENITY REHABILITATION AND HEALTH CENTER LLC	95015	1380 SOUTHERN AVE SE	WASHINGTON	DC	20032	2018-07-20	880	F	0	1	L7I811	Based on observations and staff interview, the facility failed to maintain laundry equipment in safe condition as evidenced by two (2) of three (3) washing machines in the laundry room that continuously leaked through their access door. Facility staff failed to develop policies and procedures to identify, monitor and manage the growth and spread of bacteria such as Legionella in their water system, and failed to establish a system of surveillance designed to identify possible communicable diseases or infections before they can spread to other persons in the facility. Findings included . 1.During observations in the laundry room on (MONTH) 11, (YEAR), at 3:10 PM, two (2) of three (3) washing machines were steadily leaking through the bottom of the access door. During a face-to-face interview on (MONTH) 17, (YEAR), Employee #13 acknowledged these findings. 2.Facility staff failed to develop policies and procedures to identify, monitor and manage the growth and spread of bacteria such as Legionella in their water system. The facility did not have available policies and procedures related to water management to inhibit the growth and spread of Legionella. The facility lacked a risk assessment to identify where waterborne pathogens such as legionella could grow and spread. The facility failed to test and implement a water management program to test for, monitor and control Legionella and other waterborne pathogens. During a face-to-face interview on (MONTH) 18, (YEAR), at 9:20 AM, Employee #12 confirmed the findings. 3. Failed to establish a system of surveillance designed to identify possible communicable diseases or infections before they can spread to other persons in the facility. On (MONTH) 19, (YEAR), at approxiately 2:30 PM, a review the faciltiy's infection control program was conducted. At this time, it was noted that surveillance data related to infection control for (MONTH) and (MONTH) (YEAR), was not used for staff education to help minimize the spread of the infection (e.g., staff education and competency assessment). During a face-to-face interview with Employee #2 on (MONTH) 19, (YEAR), at approxiately 2:30 PM, she acknowledged the findings.	2020-09-01