cms_ME: 1565

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
1565	SOUTHRIDGE REHAB & LIVING CTR	205136	10 MAY ST	BIDDEFORD	ME	4005	2016-07-28	431	E	1	1	OBQJ11	> Based on observations and interview, the facility failed to ensure that expired medications were removed from the medication storage cabinet on 1 of 2 units and from 2 of 5 medication administration carts (Oakridge Unit). Findings: 1. On 7/26/16 at 1:45 p.m., during inspection of the medication storage cabinet on the Long Term Care Unit, B2-Oakridge, with the Certified Nursing Assistant-Medications (CNA-M), the surveyor noted 18 expired medications. The CNA-M confirmed the findings at the time of the observation and removed the medications from the locked storage cabinet. > Two, 16 ounce bottles of Liquid Tylenol 60 milligrams/5ml, with an expired date of 2/15; > Two, 16 ounce bottles of Liquid Vitamin, VI Daily, with an expired date of 4/16; > One, 16 ounce bottle of Geri Tussin with an expired date of 1/16; > One, 1000 tablet bottle of Multivitamin with an expired date of 5/16; > One, 100 tablet bottle of Simethicone 80 milligrams with an expired date of 6/16; > One, 100 tablet bottle of Enteric Coated Aspirin 325 milligrams, with an expired date of 6/16; > Five, 96 cap bottle of Anti- Diarrheal 2 milligrams, with an expired date of 3/16; > One, 100 tablet bottle of Cetirizine Hydrochloride with an expired date of 3/16; > One, 100 tablet bottle of Bisacodyl 5 milligrams, with an expired date of 6/16; > One, 100 tablets of Vitamin D 400 IU, with an expired date of 1/16; > One, 100 tablet bottle of Silver Senior with an expired date of 5/16; and > One, 100 tablet bottle of Calcium, 500 milligrams, with an expired date of 4/16 2. On 7/26/16 at 2:35 p.m., during the medication administration carts inspection on the Long Term Care unit, B2-Oakridge, with the CNA-M, the surveyor noted 8 additional expired medications in two of the carts. The CNA-M confirmed the findings at the time of the observation and removed the medications from the locked medication administration carts. > One bottle of Liquid Tylenol 160 milligrams/5ml, with an expired date of 10/15; > One bottle of Geri Tussin with an expired date of 1/16; > One bottle of Simethicone 80 milligrams with an expired date of 6/16; > One bottle of Enteric Coated Aspirin 325 milligrams, with an expired date of 6/16; > Two, bottles of Anti- Diarrheal 2milligrams, with an expired date of 3/16 and expired date of 1/16; > One bottle of Cetirizine Hydrochloride with an expired date of 3/16; and > One bottle of Silver Senior with expired date of 5/16 At the time of the observation, the CNA-M confirmed the only medication currently supplied to residents, out of all the 26 identified out of date medications, was the open bottle of Silver Senior tabs provided to Resident #42 from the medication cart. In an interview with the surveyor on 7/26/16 at 4:20 p.m., the Director of Nursing confirmed the findings.	2019-07-01