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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
10558 JONESBORO NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER 115545 2650 HIGHWAY 138 SE JONESBORO GA 30236 2009-07-22 469 D     LY2811 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, resident and staff interviews, the facility failed to ensure that one (1) resident ( "Z" ) from a sample of twenty-four (24) residents was free of pests. Findings include: Observation on 7/22/09 at 8:15 am revealed tiny insects crawling on resident "Z's " right hand and lower part of arm. Further observation revealed tiny insects crawling on the resident's bed on the right side rail and on the call light. Further observation at 8:30 am revealed tiny insects crawling on a bottle of baby powder on the bedside table near the resident's bed and the insects were crawling on the call light cord from the wall to the bed. During an interview with charge nurse "EE" on 7/20/09 at 8:30 am, revealed that the tiny insects were ants and that the ants were also on the bedside table. During an interview with resident "Z" on 7/20/09 at 9:00 am revealed that the resident had problems with ants before in the past, but has never been bitten. She further indicated that she has never had ants on her or in her bed before. Interview with maintenance staff "GG" on 7/22/09 at 9:35 am revealed that there had been no problens in this room with ants, however; ants had been a problem in resident room 128 in the past. A review of the pest management invoice dated 7/15/09 revealed resident room 128 was treated for [REDACTED]. Further interview with maintenance staff "GG" on 7/22/09 at 3:15 pm revealed that the Pest Control Company had determined that the ants in resident's "Z" room were coming in from the outside due to a crack in the wall near the air conditioner unit. 2014-04-01