cms_GA: 7389

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
7389	ST JOSEPH'S TRANSITIONAL CARE UNIT	115640	11705 MERCY BOULEVARD	SAVANNAH	GA	31419	2013-01-24	520	E	0	1	05LU11	Based on record review and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure that the Director of Nurses (DON) or a representative was in attendance at three (3) of the past four (4) Quality Assurance (QA) Committee meetings, and failed to ensure that there was physician representation at any of the QA meetings between March and August 2012. The unit census was ten (10) residents. Findings include: Review of the facility's Quality Assurance (QA) Staff Meeting sign-in sheets revealed that the DON did not attend any of the quarterly meetings on 01/18/12, 03/14/12, 08/22/12, and 11/21/12. During interview with the facility's Program Director on 01/23/13 at 12:45 p.m., she verified that the DON did not attend the QA meetings in January and March. During further interview, she stated that there was no full-time DON in August and November, and that a charge nurse had been assigned to attend in the DON's place only at the August meeting. The Program Director added that none of the monthly QA meetings held between March and August had physician representation.	2017-05-01