cms_GA: 9631

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
9631 PRUITTHEALTH - AUGUSTA HILLS 115672 2122 CUMMING ROAD AUGUSTA GA 30904 2012-02-23 282 D 0 1 QKQT11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and staff interview the facility failed to follow the comprehensive care plan for one (1) resident (#29) with a Port-A-Cath on a sample of forty-one (41) residents. Findings include: Review of the Comprehensive Care Plan for resident #29 revealed a care plan had been developed on 8/11/2011 to address the resident's Port-A-Cath. An intervention on the care plan indicated the resident would have the Port-A-Cath flushed as ordered. Review of the physician's orders [REDACTED]. Further review of the Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. 1/2012 and 2/2012 revealed no evidence the catheter had been flushed as ordered. During an interview on 2/23/12 at 1:30 p.m., Registered Nurse (RN) "BB" stated she could find no evidence the port had been flushed as ordered. She stated the facility requested the port be flushed when the resident went out of the facility to the hospital, however no evidence could be found to indicate the Port-A-Cath had been flushed since the resident's admission to the facility on [DATE]. She further stated there was no one in the facility that was competent to flush the Port-A-Cath. She stated if there was a need to flush the port, they would bring in a staff member employed by the corporation to flush the port. However, there was no evidence this had been done. 2015-06-01