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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
6069 WRIGHTSVILLE NURSING HOME 115406 608 WEST COURT STREET WRIGHTSVILLE GA 31096 2014-10-02 431 D 0 1 0FZL11 Based on observation, Expired Drug Policy, Controlled Drug Reconciliation Policy, review of the Controlled Drug Record and staff interviews, the facility failed to ensure expired medications were disposed of in a timely manner and failed to ensure that Controlled Medication were reconciled accurately for one (1) resident (#10) on one (1) of four (4) medication cart . Finding includes: Observation of the medication cart (hall one) on 9-30-14 at 12:30 p.m. revealed the following medication was found to be expired: One (1) opened bottle (with an open date of 9-29-14) of ALL DAY ALLERGY Tablets with an expiration date of 02/2014. An interview with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) AA on 9-30-14 at 2:20 p.m. revealed that she confirmed this medication was expired. Review of the Facility policy titled Wrightsville Nursing Home Expired Drug Policy revealed the charge nurse should check the expiration dates of the medications on the medication cart at the beginning of their shift to prevent an expired drug being administered to a resident. Review of the Controlled Drug Record Form (Hall 2) for one (1) resident (#10) who had an physician's order for Lyrica capsule 50 milligram (mg), had fifteen (15) tablets available. Observation of the Lyrica 50 mg package for resident #10 revealed sixteen (16) tablets remained in the medication package. An interview with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) BB on 9-30-14 at 1:30 p.m. revealed the Controlled Drug Record (CDR) and the medication packet did not match but they should. Continued interview with LPN BB revealed that this was missed during the morning count with the off-going nurse. Review of the Facility policy titled Wrightsville Nursing Home Controlled Drug Reconciliation Policy revealed the controlled drugs must be reconciled every shift by the oncoming and off-going charge nurses. 2018-04-01