cms_GA: 1723

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
1723	AZALEA TRACE NURSING CENTER	115478	910 TALBOTTON RD	COLUMBUS	GA	31904	2016-10-14	356	B	0	1	5ZK111	Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure required nurse staffing information, was updated daily for 4 of 7 days and posted at the beginning of each shift in a location that was easily accessible to residents and visitors. Findings include: During the initial tour on 10/10/16 at 9:20 a.m., the nursing staff information was observed posted in the first floor hallway leading to the 100 even number rooms across from the nursing station. There was a nurse staffing form which had the staffing completed for 10/5/16 and 10/6/16. The form was not completed daily. The following dates were left blank 10/7/16, 10/8/16, 10/9/16, and 10/10/16. During an interview on 10/10/16 at 12:45 p.m. with the Director of Nursing (DON) she stated the nurse staffing totals would always be a day behind due to having call offs and to ensure the daily nurse staffing sheet was accurate she completed them the next day not the same day. The DON stated she used the staffing book located on the front desk to complete the nurse staffing information for the days when she was not present at the facility. According to the DON, she not familiar with the regulation regarding nurse staffing posting daily.	2020-09-01