cms_GA: 3402

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
3402	LIFE CARE CTR OF LAWRENCEVILLE	115659	210 COLLINS INDUSTRIAL WAY	LAWRENCEVILLE	GA	30045	2016-11-04	328	E	0	1	03D011	Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure oxygenators (oxygen machines) had clean air filters for four of eight residents (R5, R153, R343, R345) who used the oxygen machines on the 100 hall Findings include: An observation on 10/31/16 at 9:28 a.m. in the room for R5 revealed the oxygenator had an air filter observed to have a build-up of dirt and debris on the filter. In the same room, the oxygenator for R153 also had an air filter with built-up dirt and debris on it. An observation of the oxygenator filter for the oxygen machine for R343 on 10/31/16 at 9:38 p.m. revealed the filter had a build-up dirt and debris. An observation of the oxygenator filter for the oxygen machine for R345 on 10/31/16 at 9:51 a.m. revealed the oxygenator filter had so much dirt and debris on it, the color of the filter had changed from black to cream-colored and when the filter was removed, by maintenance, debris was observed to fall off of the filter. An interview with registered nurse (RN) AA, on 10/31/16 at 9:38 a.m., revealed maintenance was responsible for checking and cleaning the air filters on oxygenators on a quarterly basis. She demonstrated she did not know how to remove an air filter for inspection. An interview with the Maintenance Director on 10/31/16 at 9:43 a.m. confirmed the air filters for R5, R153, R343 and R345 were dirty, had debris on them and needed to be cleaned or replaced. He also stated maintenance was responsible for replacing air filters on a quarterly basis. He further stated that the air filters for R5, R135 and R343 had not been inspected, cleaned or replaced since (MONTH) of (YEAR) by maintenance. He further stated that he could find no evidence of the air filter for the oxygenator for R345 had ever been inspected, replaced or cleaned. An interview with the Director of Nursing on 11/3/16 at 3:00 p.m. revealed maintenance was responsible for replacing, cleaning and inspecting air filters for oxygenators on a quarterly basis, but nurses were also to inspect the filters on a weekly basis, on Thursdays.	2020-09-01