cms_DE: 13

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
13 KENTMERE REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE CENTER 85001 1900 LOVERING AVENUE WILMINGTON DE 19806 2017-09-07 463 D 1 1 H3FV11 > Based on observations, the facility failed to maintain a properly functioning communication system used by residents to contact staff in 3 out of 35 rooms. Findings include: 1. During a review of the environment on 8/30/17 from 2 PM to 4 PM with E6 (Maintenance Director) and E7 (Housekeeping Director), the hallway light outside of room 104 did not turn on when activated by pulling the call bell cords in the bedroom and bathroom. 2 On 8/30/17 between 2 PM and 4 PM, the call bell cord in the bathroom of room 232 was observed to be tightly wrapped around the handrail, preventing their activation. 3. On 8/30/17 between 2 PM and 4 PM, the call bell cord in the bathroom of room 318 was observed to be tightly wrapped around the handrail, preventing their activation. Findings were confirmed with E6 on 8/30/17 from 2-4 PM during the environmental tour. 2020-09-01