cms_GA: 5877

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
5877	GOODWILL HEALTH AND REHAB	115486	4373 HOUSTON AVE.	MACON	GA	31206	2015-10-15	493	K	1	0	7J0Y11	Based on record review and interview the Governing Body failed to assure that employees were paid, the Quality Assurance Committee was effective, investigations were conducted and reported, equipment was maintained and the facility had 8 hours of Registered Nurse coverage. Cross reference: 1. F225-the governing body failed to assure that investigative reports were completed to the Department within 5 business days after an incident of injury and that narcotics were safe guarded against non-resident use; 2. F309-the governing body failed to assure that the facility had supplies to monitor blood sugar of insulin dependent diabetics causing actual harm to one resident; 3. F354-the governing body failed to assure that a Registered Nurse was on duty at least eight (8) hours a day, and failed to assure a Director of Nursing was in charge of nursing services; 4. F493-the governing body failed to assure that adequate financial support was available to cover expenses for the care and services of all the residents including paying employees, per interview with the Administrator via telephone, payroll checks did not clear the bank, and the payroll has been changed from every other Friday to every other Tuesday. Per interview with twenty-one (21) employees, six (6) employees had payroll funds be insufficient, and; 5. F520-the Qaa Committee failed to monitor the Plan of Correction for the Standard survey with F309 re-cited on the revisit. Findings include: Interview on 8/26/15 at 1:54 p.m. with Accounts Payable revealed that the first time payroll checks bounced was on the 7/31/2015. The corporate office was notified and reported to the employees that any service charges would be paid by the company. Then corporate changed payroll dates would be to every other Tuesday but did not notify the employees of the change. Interview on 8/26/15 at 10:00 a.m. through 12:18 p.m. with twenty-two (22) employees revealed that six (6) staff had payroll checks bounce, including one (1) Licensed Practical Nurse, 1 floor technician, 1 laundry worker, 1 Medical Record staff, the Director of Admission and 1 Unit Manager.	2018-05-01