cms_GA: 7831

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
7831	SCEPTER REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE CENTER, LLC	115643	3000 LENORA CHURCH DRIVE	SNELLVILLE	GA	30078	2012-06-21	156	E	0	1	U3SV11	Based on record review and staff interview the facility failed to send the required notice to three (3) residents (#186, #116, and #4) of thirty-five (35) sampled residents informing them of their right to request a claim be submitted to Medicare for review related to the termination of skilled Medicare services. Findings include: Residents # 186, #116 and #4 were admitted to the facility receiving Skilled Medicare Services. Each remained in the facility after skilled services were discontinued. Review of the advance notices each received informing them of their appeal rights revealed they only received notification of their right to an expedited review by an independent review board. There was no documentation they had received notice of their right to file an appeal to Medicare. Business Office staff member HH was interviewed on 6/21/12 at 3:30 p.m. and stated residents being discharged from skilled services are presently only being informed of their right to an expedited review.	2016-11-01