cms_GA: 9632

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
9632	PRUITTHEALTH - AUGUSTA HILLS	115672	2122 CUMMING ROAD	AUGUSTA	GA	30904	2012-02-23	309	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 ensure that physician orders [REDACTED].# 162) and to maintain patency of a Port-A-Cath for one (1) resident (#29) on a sample of forty-one (41) residents. Findings include: 1. Review of the medical record for resident # 162 revealed that the resident was admitted on [DATE] from the hospital with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. He received on [MEDICAL TREATMENT] three (3) times a week. Review of the Physician order [REDACTED]. The parameters were to check the blood pressure and to give: -[MEDICATION NAME] 0.3 milligrams by gastrostomy tube at 6:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. if the blood pressure was above 110/60 -The [MEDICATION NAME] 10 milligrams was to be given at 6:00 a.m. -The [MEDICATION NAME] 20 milligrams at 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. if the blood pressure was above 110 over 60. Review of the MAR indicated [REDACTED]. Interview with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)"DD" on 2/22/12 at 2:55 p.m. they were not taking the resident's blood pressure prior to administering the blood pressure medications. 2. Review of the physician orders [REDACTED]. 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 staff had requested the port be flushed whenever 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