cms_GA: 10522

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
10522 MAGNOLIA MANOR METHODIST NSG C 115004 2001 SOUTH LEE STREET AMERICUS GA 31709 2009-08-20 505 D     3EK711 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review, it was determined that the facility failed to promptly notify the physician about an abnormally high [MEDICATION NAME]/INR level and an abnormally high BUN level for one resident (#3) from a sample of 30 residents. Findings include: Nursing staff had given 5 milligrams (mgs) of [MEDICATION NAME] daily to resident #3 since his/her admission on 6/9/09. Licensed nursing staff had obtained a [MEDICATION NAME]/INR blood level on the resident on 6/15/09. Although, the INR was abnormally high at 3.69 (therapeutic range was between 2.0 and 3.0), licensed nursing staff had failed to notify the physician about that result until 7/7/09 (22 days later). At that time, the physician ordered nursing staff to hold the [MEDICATION NAME] that day and then decrease the dose to 2.5 mgs and alternating that with 5 mgs every other day. On 8/19/09 at 11:00 a.m., the consultant pharmacist stated that licensed nursing staff should have notified the resident's physician about the abnormally high INR result prior to 7/7/09. Resident #3 had an abnormally high BUN level of 52 reported on 8/4/09. The normal range for a BUN level was between 7 and 18. Although the resident had an abnormally high BUN level of 31 on 6/6/09 prior to his/her admission to the facility on [DATE], there was no evidence that licensed nursing staff had notified the resident's physician about the even higher BUN result on 8/4/09. 2014-04-01