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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
8609 OAKS - SCENIC VIEW SKILLED NURSING, THE 115393 205 PEACH ORCHARD ROAD BALDWIN GA 30511 2011-09-15 325 D 0 1 03WJ11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and staff interview the facility failed to provide additional calories to a resident to address her ongoing weight loss. This affected one (1) resident, #49, from a sample of twenty-eight (28) residents. Findings include: Record review for resident #49 revealed a that she had a significant weight loss of 14 pounds (12.2%) from 3/02/11 to 9/12/11 and a significant weight loss of 6 pounds (5.5% ) from 7/07/11 to 8/07/11. Further record review revealed that the resident had a physician's orders [REDACTED]. The Med Pass supplement was increased to 120 ml three (3) times per day beginning on 8/18/11. A review of the resident's Medication Administration Records (MAR) revealed that the resident consumed 100% of the supplement on most occasions when it was given to her. A review of the resident's Yearly Weight Record revealed that the resident lost another 1.4 pounds of weight from 8/21/11 to 9/12/11. A review of Physician Telephone Orders revealed that the Med Pass supplement was discontinued on 9/06/11 even though the resident continued to lose weight. An interview with the facility's Registered Dietitian (RD) and the facility's Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) on 9/14/11 at 12:30 p.m. confirmed that the resident was continuing to lose weight and could not explain why the resident's supplement was discontinued. The interview also revealed that they could not explain why another supplement was not ordered to replace the caloric loss when the supplement was discontinued. 2015-12-01