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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
3 HILO MEDICAL CENTER 125002 1190 WAIANUENUE AVENUE HILO HI 96720 2017-10-20 371 F 0 1 5D9Q11 Based on observations and staff interviews the facility failed to ensure that residents eating utensils and food preparation dishes were being properly sanitized. Findings include: On 10/16/2017 at 10:19 AM during the initial kitchen tour, the dishwashing machine temperature log for (MONTH) documented temperatures for final rinse cycle were out of range and did not reach 180 degrees Fahrenheit for the final rinse cycle. According to Staff #54, when the staff take temperature and its wrong, it should be checked again. The procedure that the kitchen staff is to follow, is to attach a temperature strip to a coffee mug and run it through the dishwashing machine again. The temperature strip should have been attached to the log with low temperatures to show the correct temperature. During an interview, Staff #54 stated that the dishwasher was broken since (MONTH) and the final rinse temperature was not reaching 180 degrees Fahrenheit. The facility had called the Hobart representative in (MONTH) and was waiting to replace a part. On 10/17/2017 Staff #54 reported that the dishwasher repair was scheduled for 10/19/2017. The facility did not follow proper sanitation of the dishes, eating utensils and cookware to prevent the outbreak of foodborne illness. 2020-09-01