cms_GA: 9979

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
9979 PARK PLACE NURSING FACILITY 115005 1865 BOLD SPRINGS ROAD MONROE GA 30655 2010-08-12 281 D 0 1 55J411 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, record review and staff interview the facility failed to clarify a medication order for the exact dosage the physician wanted for one (1) resident, resident #47 on a sample of twenty-one (21) residents. Findings include: During the medication pass observed on 9/11/2010 at 8:00 a.m. the nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) "MM" was observed to give resident # 47 liquid [MEDICATION NAME] 5 cc's which equaled 50 milligrams. Review of the Physician order [REDACTED].=100 mg) by mouth each day at 8:30 a.m. Interview with LPN "LL" revealed that she would give 10 cc/ 100 milligrams of the [MEDICATION NAME]. Interview with Registered Nurse "KK" revealed that she would give the 10 cc of [MEDICATION NAME] but stated that the order was not clear. None of the three nurses interviewed stated that they would call the physician for clarification of the order. The physician was notified and the order clarified to read give liquid [MEDICATION NAME] 10 cc's to equal 100 milligrams. Review of the Nursing Practice and Regulation Acts of Georgia for Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses revealed that their responsibility was to seek clarification of physician orders [REDACTED]. 2015-03-01