cms_GA: 8401

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
8401 HUTCHESON MED CTR SUBACUTE UNI 115040 100 GROSS CRESCENT CIRCLE FORT OGLETHORPE GA 30742 2011-09-22 170 B 0 1 VTI211 Based on staff interviews and facility policy the facility failed to ensure that mail is delivered promptly following delivery to the facility for one (1) resident (P) from a sample of twenty-one (21) residents. Interview with resident P conducted on 9/22/2011 at 9:30 a.m. revealed that Saturday mail is delivered on occasions when activities staff is in the building otherwise they get their mail on Monday. Interview with Administrator conducted on 9/22/2011 at 10:00 a.m. revealed that postal service delivers mail on Saturdays to the facility and restorative staff is responsible for delivering it to the residents. Occasionally, when activity staff work on Saturday, they sometime deliver the mail. The Administrator further indicated that she cannot swear that the mail is delivered to residents on every Saturday. Interview conducted with Activity Director on 9/22/2011 at 10:36 a.m. revealed that Activity staff delivers mail to residents on Saturdays, when they are scheduled to work, and other staff member should be delivering the mail when Activity staff are not at work. During the week days all mail is delivered by Activities Staff. There has been several occurrences in which mail that was delivered on Saturday from postal services was still in the facility's mail box on Monday morning. Review of facility policy revealed that mail is to be delivered to the residents, sealed and unopened, through the facility's normal mail delivery system. The Administrator indicated normal mail delivery is Monday thru Saturday. 2016-01-01