cms_GA: 8220

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
8220	PARK PLACE NURSING FACILITY	115005	1865 BOLD SPRINGS ROAD	MONROE	GA	30655	2011-12-15	441	D	0	1	9FEJ11	Based on observation and interview the facility failed to ensure that reusable multi patient equipment was cleaned appropriately between residents during the medication pass for one (1) Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) out of three nurses (3) observed. Findings include: During observation of fingerstick blood glucose monitoring on 12/14/11 at 11:40 a.m. Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) CC was observed to take a small basket into a resident's room and place it directly onto the resident's overbed table. This basket contained the glucometer and lancets. The nurse was observed to clean the opening for the test strip with a PDI bleach wipe for 5 seconds and then did the testing for glucose levels. When she finished checking the glucose level she put the glucometer back into the basket with the clean lancets and carried it back to the cart. Interview with LPN CC at this time revealed that she had only been working in this facility a few weeks and had not been told how long to clean the glucometer and where to place it after cleaning. She also acknowledged that she should have placed a barrier before setting the glucometer basket on the overbed table. Interview with the Nursing Supervisor, Registered Nurse (RN) DD on 12/14/11 at 2:15 p.m. revealed that the representative from the glucometer company told them to wet the surface and allow 2 minutes to dry. Instructions on the box of PDI sanitizing wipes with 1:10 bleach in it states to wet surface and allow to dry. When asked about a clean field for the glucometer at this same time the Nursing Supervisor stated that the nurse should have put down a barrier before placing the glucometer on the overbed table. She also stated she should have cleaned the glucometer before putting it back in the basket with the clean lancets.	2016-05-01