cms_ME: 4085

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
4085 MAINE VETERANS HOME - BANGOR 205185 44 HOGAN RD BANGOR ME 4401 2011-02-03 371 D     D5O711 Based on observations and interviews, the facility failed to ensure that kitchen equipment and food storage areas were maintained in a clean and sanitary manner. Findings: 1. On 1/30/11 at 9:45 a.m., during a tour of the kitchen, the surveyor made the following observations: a. A fan was heavily soiled with dust on the front and sides and blowing towards clean pots and pans; b. A 1 inch by 4 inch hole in the bottom portion of the wall under a counter area behind the grease trap and the floor in the area around the grease trap was covered with debris. c. In the dry storage room, the surveyor observed the ceiling next to the wall had three 1 inch holes and the ceiling around a conduit had 1 inch by 4 inch and 1/2 inch by 16 inch size holes open to the area above the ceiling. The surveyor discussed this finding with the Dietary Technician at the time of the observations. 2. On 1/31/11 at 9:20 a.m., during a tour of the kitchen, the surveyor observed that the floor area next to the wall, under the three wash sinks, was soiled with debris and dust was observed along the top of the pipes which were underneath the three wash sinks. The surveyor discussed this finding with the Dietary Service Manager at the time of the observation. 2014-04-01