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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
8	HILO MEDICAL CENTER	125002	1190 WAIANUENUE AVENUE	HILO	HI	96720	2018-11-16	812	E	0	1	HKBQ11	NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, record review, and interview, the facility failed to monitor temperatures to ensure the refrigerators/freezer were in good working condition, and stored food beyond safe use by dates, in two kitchen refrigerators, one resident nourishment refrigerator, and a storage cabinet on the Long-term care unit. The deficiency compromised food safety for the residents. Findings Include: On [DATE] at 10:20 AM, during an interview with the Food Service Manager (FSM), the monthly refrigerator/freezer temperature logs were reviewed that revealed incomplete documentation of temperature monitoring. The FSM stated, They are to check them twice a day and document on the log. There was no evidence the kitchen storeroom refrigerator, or kitchen storeroom freezer temperature was monitored 12 out of 31 days in August, (YEAR). The log revealed the kitchen GC 14 Refer (Juices) refrigerator was not monitored 13 out of 31 days in August, (YEAR). Temperature documented on [DATE], [DATE], [DATE], and [DATE] was 52 degrees Fahrenheit (F), outside the safe range (41 degrees F, or less) for refrigeration with no evidence of corrective action taken after the deviation was noted. On [DATE], staff entered the comment, couldn't find thermometer. On [DATE] at 10:30 AM identified one container of tofu, and one container of sliced apples in a kitchen refrigerator with expired dates on the labels. The FSM confirmed the food, Needed to be thrown out. On [DATE] at 11:38 AM, inspection of the Long-term care nourishment room revealed one opened container of orange juice and a bowl of crystal light jello stored in the refrigerator with use by dates on the labels that had expired. In addition, there were eight unopened lemon water containers and two unopened orange juice containers stored in the cabinet that were beyond the use by dates.	2020-09-01