cms_GU: 50

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
50 GUAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY 655000 499 NORTH SABANA DRIVE BARRIGADA GU 96913 2014-09-19 431 E 0 1 OCYD11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation and interview, the facility failed to ensure that drugs and biologicals stored in the facility's only medication storage room in use were discarded when expired; and also properly disposed/returned to the pharmacy or resident after discharge. Findings included: During a tour of the medication room on [DATE] at approximately 2:20PM with the LN, the following was observed: 1. A 30cc vial of Heparin flush mixed/prepared and labeled by the facility pharmacy with a label reading that the Heparin flush vial was mixed/prepared on [DATE] with a disposal/expiration date of [DATE] was stored with other medications actively being used by the facility. The LN stated that the vial should have been disposed and/or returned to the pharmacy by the expiration date (,[DATE]) and not stored with other medications. It is unknown if any of the Heparin flush preparation had been administered to a resident after it's expiration date. 2. Seven (7) Lantis insulin pens labeled with the name of a previously discharged resident were being stored in the refrigerator with other medications currently being administered to residents in the facility. The LN stated the pens should have either been sent home with the resident/family when they were discharged , or sent to the pharmacy for disposal. The pens should have been sent home with the resident, or we sometimes will call the resident's family to come pick them up. 2019-04-01