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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
45 WILLOWBROOKE COURT AT COUNTRY HOUSE 85003 4830 KENNETT PIKE WILMINGTON DE 19807 2017-05-31 431 D 0 1 SQVX11 Based on observation, the facility failed to ensure that all medications were stored in a locked medication cart when not under the direct observation of authorized personnel for one (1) out of two (2)carts. Findings include: On (MONTH) 25, (YEAR) at 2:24 PM, an unattended medication cart parked against the wall in the[NAME]Gardens hallway was observed to be unlocked. When the top drawer handle was pulled, the compartment with medications came out, confirming the cart was not in the locked position. The cart remained unlocked until 3:10 PM when E4 (Unit Manager) approached the cart and proceeded to insert the key into the lock as if unlocking it, so the cart could be inspected. These findings were reviewed with E2 (NHA) and E3 (Director of Nursing) on 5/25/17 at 3:30 PM. 2020-09-01