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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
8079 WYNFIELD PARK HEALTH AND REHABILITATION 115625 223 W.THIRD AVENUE ALBANY GA 31701 2012-03-29 323 E 0 1 LF6S11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observations, record review, and staff interview, it was determined that the facility failed to maintain safe hot water temperatures in 10 rooms and one common shower on one (2nd floor) of three resident inhabited floors in the facility, and to apply a chair alarm for one resident (#188) with a history of falls from a sample of 36 residents. Findings include: During the initial tour of the facility on 03/26/12 at 12:20 p.m., the hot water temperatures on the second floor were checked by the Maintenance Director with a facility calibrated thermometer on . 1. The hot water temperature in one of two common shower rooms was 125.3 degrees Fahrenheit (F.) 2. The hot water temperature in room 205 was 124.6 degrees F.; in room 206 was 122.4 degrees F.; in room 207 was 124.5 degrees F.; in room 208 was 123.1 degrees F. and; in room 239 was 120.8 degrees F. During an interview on 03/26/12 at 1:00 p.m., the Maintenance Director stated that he had recently been hired by the facility and was unable to find previous hot water temperature log records. He later located water temperature logs which documented water temperature monitoring through 02/06/12 was done once a month in only one room on each floor. There was not any documentation that water temperatures had been monitored by staff after 02/06/12. Subsequent investigation by the facility, following the observation of elevated hot water temperatures on the 2nd floor, revealed that the hot water pump and and mixing valve were defective and required replacing. The facility consistently monitored the water temperatures until the pump and mixing valve were replaced on 3/29/12. 2. Resident #188 had [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. He/She was coded on the 2/26/12 Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment as having cognitive impairments and as needing total assistance for care. There were handwritten interventions on the resident's initial care plan to address his/her risk for falls. Those interventions were dated 3/22/12 for nursing staff to apply a bed alarm, a chair alarm, and a fall mat on one side of the resident's bed. Review of the medical record revealed that resident #188 fell out of bed without injury on 03/05/12. He/she fell while transferring independently from the recliner to bed on 03/26/12 with an abrasion above his/her right eyebrow. However, it was observed on 03/28/12 at 11:55 a.m., 2:55 and 2:59 p.m. that the resident was seated in a room chair but the tab for chair alarm was not attached to the resident. The tab was on the floor. 2016-07-01