cms_GA: 4506

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
4506 PRUITTHEALTH - MARIETTA 115276 70 SAINE DRIVE SW MARIETTA GA 30008 2015-09-30 441 D 0 1 IBUU11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation and staff interviews the facility failed to follow infection control practices during medication pass for one(1)of three(3)medication carts out of six(6)units. Finding includes: During medication pass observation on 9/29/15 at 5:40 p.m. The Licensed Practical Nurse NN was observed during medication pass to drop one(1) pill inside the medication cart draw([MEDICATION NAME] 100 milligrams(mg)one (1) tablet)and noted three(3)pills on top of the medication cart( [MEDICATION NAME] 0.6 mg one(1)tablet, [MEDICATION NAME] 50 mg one(1)tablet, and half(1/2)tablet 1.25 mg [MEDICATION NAME] 1 tablet). The nurse picked up all four (4) pills with a spoon and placed in a medication cup and administered them to the resident. Interview with the Licensed Practical Nurse NN on 9/29/2015 at 6:06 p.m., revealed she should have wasted the medications that was dropped on cart. In an interview conducted on 09/30/2015 at 11:18 a.m., with the Director of Nursing(DON)revealed her expectation for nurses is that they follow standards and the facilities protocols and guidelines during medication pass and storage. Review of the Facility Infection Prevention and Control Program Overview dated 2/05/15 documented Implementation of Control Measures: Prevention of spread of infections is accomplished by use of Standard Precautions and other barriers . 2019-09-01