cms_ME: 33
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.
This data as json, copyable
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BARRON CENTER |
205011 |
1145 BRIGHTON AVE |
PORTLAND |
ME |
4102 |
2017-10-26 |
221 |
D |
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1 |
7DKA11 |
**NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and interviews, the facility failed to obtain a physician's order to initiate the use of a potential restraint device for 1 sampled resident (#84) on 1 of 9 units. Finding: On 10/25/17 at 9:10 a.m., during initial tour of the Barron Center II (BC II) building, the surveyor observed Resident #84 ambulating with a Merry-Walker. On 10/25/17, in review of the resident's record, the surveyor did not find a physician order to initiate the use of the Merry Walker. On 10/25/17 at 9:35 a.m., in an interview with the BC II Nurse Manager he/she confirmed the Merry-Walker was initiated in 2014 for safe ambulation, the resident is unable to release himself/herself from the device, and confirmed a physician order was not obtained in 2014. On 10/25/17 at 12:55 p.m., in an interview with the BC II Nurse Manager he/she presented the surveyor with a Physician order for [REDACTED]. |
2020-09-01 |