cms_GU: 66

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
66 GUAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY 655000 499 NORTH SABANA DRIVE BARRIGADA GU 96913 2013-09-20 456 D 0 1 JK1T11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, interview and document review the facility failed to ensure all essential patient care equipment was in safe operating condition. Failure to have safe and operational portable suction equipment could potentially lead to a blocked airway for any resident dependent on staff to clear their airway. Findings include: On (MONTH) 20, 2013 at approximately 12:00PM Resident #1, who has a [MEDICAL CONDITION], was observed having several dressings changed; she was logged rolled during the process. The log rolling activity possibly contributed to the loosening of [MEDICAL CONDITION] sections which could be heard as air moved in and out of the [MEDICAL CONDITION]. LN#7 acknowledged the need to suction the resident and she attempted suctioning by using the wall suction piped into the resident room. The wall suction failed possibly due to the power outages that were occurring related to heavy rains. LN#7 obtained the portable suction equipment as an alternative to the wall suction. The portable suction would not go past five on the suction dial and the nurse acknowledge the portable suction was not working in-spite of several attempts to adjust the suction dial. Careful inspection of the portable suction device revealed the last time the equipment was check for safety was on (MONTH) 12, 2011. The safety inspection sticker revealed the next projected safety check was suppose to occur in (MONTH) 2012. The LN#7 acknowledged the portable suction was not inspected in 2012 nor 2013. The last dated safety inspection sticker on portable suction was dated (MONTH) 12, 2011. The wall suctioning mechanism was finally fixed by 12:30PM and the resident was suctioned by LN#7. 2018-07-01