cms_GA: 5503

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
5503	PARK PLACE NURSING FACILITY	115005	1865 BOLD SPRINGS ROAD	MONROE	GA	30655	2015-02-05	323	D	0	1	ZUHN11	Based on observations, record review, facility policy and staff interview it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that the resident's environment was free of accident hazards for one (1) resident (#57) from a sample of forty-eight (48) residents. Findings include: Observation during intial tour of the facility on 02/02/15 at 11:00 a.m. room E-69, revealed a private bathroom for resident #57 with a soft raised toilet seat that was torn on both sides and the back with jagged edges exposing the foam. Continued observation on 2/03/15, at 3:00 p.m., 02/04/15 at 7:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., and again on 02/05/15 at 7:30 a.m. and 8:10 a.m., revealed that the raised soft toilet seat was still torn with jagged edges exposing the foam remained in the resident's private bathroom. Interview with CC the Private Sitter on 02/04/2015 at 9:24 a.m., revealed that resident #57 uses the raised soft toilet seat several times daily with assistance from staff. CC further revealed that the resident was not able to ambulate to the bathroom unassisted and required help from staff. Interview with the Infection Control (IC) Nurse on 02/04/15 at 10:45 am revealed that resident #57 uses the private bathroom with the soft raised toilet seat daily, and required assistance from the staff but continued to wear adult diapers. Observation on 02/05/15 at 9:15 a.m. of the private bathroom for resident #57 with the IC Nurse she confirmed that the soft toilet seat was torn on both sides and in the back with jagged edges exposing the foam. She further revealed that the toilet seat would be replaced. Interview with Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) BB on 02/05/15 at 8:15 a.m. revealed that resident #57 was on a toileting program with staff toileting the resident every two (2)hours especially after meals and as needed. CNA BB further revealed that the resident continues to use the private bathroom with the torn toilet seat several times daily and at times asks to remove the torn seat to allow the resident to sit on the regular seat. Interview on 02/05/2015 at 8:45 a.m. with the IC Nurse revealed that part of her job was to make sure that resident personal care equipment was replaced if anything was wrong with it. She further revealed that all staff are responsible for checking each residents, personal care equipment daily for any defects or potential hazards. Continued interview revealed that if any equipment is found to be a danger or hazard to any resident it should be removed and disposed of and replaced immediately. The IC Nurse revealed that after seeing the soft torn raised toilet seat with jagged edges, and the foam exposed, she was embarrassed and upset that none of the staff or housekeeping had informed her. She revealed that the soft raised torn toilet seat with jagged edges, was a potential accident and or hazard to the resident and that resident #57 could have potentially scratched her bottom causing an injury. Observation of resident #57's skin on 02/05/2015 at 3:30 p.m. revealed no skin abrasions noted on her bottom or her legs related to the torn toilet seat.	2018-08-01