cms_GA: 8122

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
8122	GRACEWOOD NSG FACILITY(UNIT 9)	11A200	100 MYRTLE BLVD., EAST CENTRAL REG HOSP	GRACEWOOD	GA	30812	2012-01-12	253	B	0	1	IUIJ11	Based on observations, staff interviews and review of the facility policy, the facility failed to ensure that six (6) wheelchairs on two (2) of two (2) halls and one (1) IV pole were free of an soiled matter. Findings include: Random observations of wheelchairs during the environmental rounds on 1/10/11 at 2:00 p.m. revealed that there was a build up an ivory colored, dried substance on sides and under the bottoms of the crossbars on six (6) different wheelchairs. Living Area 1 1. The purple wheelchair in room 116 had an dried, ivory substance on the left side and under its cross bars. 2. The blue wheelchairs in room 109 had an dried, ivory colored substance on the left side and under its crossbars. Living Area 2- The blue wheelchairs in rooms 267, 266, 259 and 256 had an ivory, colored substance on both sides and under their crossbars. During an interview on 1/10/12 at 2:50 p.m., Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) FF said Occupational Therapy department (OT) had a staff member who was responsible for pressure washing all of the wheelchairs. FF said that the dried, Ivory colored substance on the wheelchairs was formula. In an interview on 1/11/12 at 10:49 am, the OT/Physical Therapy Tech EE said that all of the wheelchairs were scheduled to be cleaned every six weeks. EE said the wheelchairs had last been cleaned on 11/16/11. EE explained that he/she was behind on the cleaning schedule because of the holidays. EE said that there was not a facility policy for cleaning. She/He said that he/she was responsible for pressure washing all of the wheelchairs for the whole campus. EE added that the CNAs on each unit were responsible for cleaning the wheelchairs, if it was needed before the scheduled time for pressure cleaning. Review of the Pressure Washing schedule indicated that the last steam cleaning for the wheelchairs were done between 11/15/11-11/21/11. Living Area 2 The bottom bottom of the IV/ tube feeding pole In room 258 was soiled with a dried, ivory substance.	2016-07-01