cms_ME: 4151

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
4151	DURGIN PINES	205132	9 LEWIS RD	KITTERY	ME	3904	2011-01-04	428	D			LZFK11	NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record reviews and interviews, the Consultant Pharmacist failed to identify irregularity in the medication regimen for 2 of 30 Stage II sampled residents (#35 &169). Finding: 1. The clinical record for Resident #35 contained a physician's orders [REDACTED]. In an interview with the physician on 1/3/10 at 10:50 a.m. he stated that the Levothyroxine dosage is based on the results of the TSH blood test in order to ensure appropriate therapy. The clinical record contained a TSH result dated 7/15/10 which was normal. As of 01/04/11, there was no further evidence of testing or monitoring. This finding was confirmed in an interview with the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) on 1/3/11 at 10:55 a.m. who advised the surveyor that she would contact the lab. On 1/3/11 at 1:20 p.m. the surveyor was informed by the Registered Nurse (RN) on the Feeney unit that there was no TSH level drawn after the 7/15/10 result. There was no evidence in the clinical record to indicate that the Consultant Pharmacist had identified the lack of the TSH level for October 2010 and brought it to the facility of Physician's attention. 2. The clinical record of Resident #169 contained an order for [REDACTED].	2014-03-01