cms_ME: 38

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
38 BARRON CENTER 205011 1145 BRIGHTON AVE PORTLAND ME 4102 2018-12-07 625 B 0 1 OYJ711 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and interviews, the facility failed to issue bed hold notices to the resident's representative for 2 of 5 sampled residents who had been transferred to an acute care facility (#137 and 167). Finding: 1. Documentation in Resident #137's clinical record indicated that he/she was transferred to an acute hospital on [DATE] and subsequently admitted . The clinical record lacked evidence that the facility issued a bed hold notice to the resident's representative. On 12/4/18 at 1:29 p.m., during an interview with a surveyor, the Social Worker stated that she was unable to find evidence that the written transfer/discharge notice was given to Resident Representative #137. 2. Review of the documentation in the clinical record indicated that Resident #167 was transferred to an acute care facility and subsequently admitted on [DATE]. The clinical record lacked evidence that the facility issued a bed hold notice to the resident's representative. In an interview with the surveyor on 12/4/18 at 1:25 p.m., the Licensed Social Worker (LSW) provided a copy of the Notice of Transfer/Discharge form for Resident #167 provided to the resident's representative on 11/19/18. The written transfer form lacked evidence of bed hold policy and rate information provided to the representative. The LSW acknowledged the finding and confirmed the rate was not added to the form in error. In an interview with surveyor on 12/4/18, at 8:00 a.m., Resident #167 indicated he/she was made aware of the reason for the transfer but had received no written information on the facility's policy on bed hold. In an interview with the surveyor and the Director of Nursing Services on 12/7/18, at 8:15 a. m., the finding on Resident #167 was discussed. The surveyor confirmed the finding during the interview. 2020-09-01