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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
8 KENTMERE REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE CENTER 85001 1900 LOVERING AVENUE WILMINGTON DE 19806 2017-09-07 225 D 1 1 H3FV11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on record review, interviews and review of facility documentation, it was determined that the facility failed to report a fall with injury that required hospital treatment to the DLTCRP (Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection) State agency within 24 hours and they failed to submit a 5 day follow up for one (R8) out of 25 Stage 2 sampled residents. R8 fell on [DATE], was sent to the ER (emergency room ) and received stitches for a cut in her eyebrow. Findings include: 1. Review of R8's clinical record revealed the following: R8 resides in the locked dementia unit of the facility. She has both short and long term memory problems according to a 7/2/17 annual MDS. R8 fell on [DATE] and was sent to the ER where she received 3 stitches to her right eyebrow. While reviewing the facility's investigation of the fall, there was no documentation that the facility reported the fall to the DLTCRP State agency within 24 hours and no documentation of a 5 day follow up being sent to the DLTCRP. During an interview with E2 (DON) on 9/7/17 at 11:20 AM, E2 confirmed that R8's 1/3/17 fall with injury that required the resident to be sent to the hospital and treated was not reported to the DLTCRP. Findings were reviewed with E2 (DON) and E4 (ADON) on 9/7/17 at approximately 3: 30 PM. 2020-09-01