cms_ME: 23

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
23 MONTELLO MANOR 205006 540 COLLEGE ST LEWISTON ME 4240 2018-03-16 761 E 0 1 40OK11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, interviews and record review, the facility lacked evidence to support monitoring of medication refrigerator temperatures of 1 of 2 medication storage refrigerators. Finding: On [DATE] at 8:20 a.m., during an observation of the facility's medication storage refrigerator with the Nurse Manager, the refrigerator was noted to have an internal temperature reading of 39 degrees Fahrenheit. The Nurse Manager confirmed that vaccines were kept in the refrigerator for resident use. There was no observed temperature log for the medication storage refrigerator. The Nurse Manager was unable to produce a temperature log or written evidence that the refrigerator temperatures were being monitored to ensure vaccines were stored at appropriate temperatures. The Nurse Manager stated there were no temperature logs kept on the refrigerator that stored vaccines. The refrigerator contents included 9 unopened boxes of [MEDICATION NAME] vials. No observed vaccines in the refrigerator had expired. On [DATE] at 8:27 a.m., the surveyor confirmed the finding in an interview with the Nurse Manager. 2020-09-01