cms_GA: 5318

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
5318 CUMMING NURSING CENTER 115551 2775 CASTLEBERRY ROAD CUMMING GA 30041 2015-03-05 159 B 0 1 5C6611 Based on review of funds, and staff interviews, the facility failed to ensure that resident funds were available on the weekends for sixty-three (63) resident with fund accounts. Finding include: Review of resident funds revealed that the facility manages sixty-three (63) resident accounts. Interview with the Business Office Manager (BOM) on 3/4/15 at 10:45 a.m., revealed that residents has access to their account Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., but not on the weekends. She revealed that until two (2) years ago, the money was available on the weekends with the supervisor; however, no resident ever requested any money, so the Administrator decided to just make the money available Monday through Friday. Interview with the Administrator on 3/4/15 at 12:30 p.m., revealed that after the facility was cited seven to eight (7-8) years ago for not having funds available for the residents on the weekends, the facility left $50.00 with the weekend nursing supervisor. He further indicated that about three to four (3-4) years ago, this procedure was stopped because the residents were not using the money over the weekends. He indicated that no resident had complained of monies not being available on the weekends. 2018-10-01