cms_GA: 8321

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
8321	HAZELHURST CENTER	115626	180 BURKETT FERRY ROAD	HAZLEHURST	GA	31539	2011-12-01	156	B	0	1	9HEV11	Based on record review and staff interview, it was determined that the facility failed to issue the Skilled Nursing Facility Advance Beneficiary Notice (CMS form ) or Denial Letter and provide the estimated cost of continued services to three residents in order to allow them to make an informed decision about whether or not they wanted to pay for the services in a sample of three residents who have been discharged from Medicare Part A services since June, 2011. Findings include: The facility had issued notices to three residents who they believed were to be discharged from Medicare Part A services because they no longer required skilled rehabilitation and/or skilled nursing services. However, they failed to issue the required CMS form liability notice or Denial Letter and, did not provide those residents or their legal representatives the estimated cost of those services in order to make an informed decision about whether they wanted to pay for those services themselves. One resident was discharged from Medicare Part A services on 6/13/11, one on 7/27/11, and the third on 8/22/11. During an interview on 11/30/11 at 10:45 a.m., the business office manager stated that the social service staff was previously responsible for issuing notices but, did not issue any notices of liability with estimated costs to the residents that were being discharged from Medicare Part A services. She confirmed that the mandatory notices or Denial Letter and estimated costs had not been issued to the three residents in the sample.	2016-03-01