cms_ME: 45
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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NEWTON CENTER |
205012 |
35 JULY STREET |
SANFORD |
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4073 |
2017-09-25 |
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> Based on interviews and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure an alleged violation of abuse was reported immediately, to the administrator and to the State Survey Agency (Department of Health and Human Services, DHHS, Division of Licensing and Certification, for 1of 2 residents reviewed. (#1) Finding: On 9/11/17, a Nursing Facility Reportable Incident Form was received from The[NAME]Center via fax in the Division of Licensing and Certification offices which indicated an allegation of abuse of a resident (Resident #1) by a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) with an occurance incident date of 9/9/17, a Saturday. Interviews and record review indicated no evidence that the allegation was reported to the DHHS State Offices until the following Monday. Review of the facility's Preventing Abuse policy states that it is the policy of[NAME]Center to not condone any form of resident abuse and to continually monitor facility policies, practices, and training/education programs to assist in preventing abuse. The reporting directions of this policy are included under the Reporting Suspicion of Abuse, section # 2 which states the DON or designee will report the incident immediately (defined as within 24 hours): Division of Licensing and Certification by calling #1-800-383-2441 as soon as possible but in a timeframe not to exceed 24 hours of knowledge of the incident. In an interview on 9/25/17 at 2:00 p.m., the finding for late reporting was discussed with the Administrator and Director of Nursing. The Administrator confirmed the report was sent to the state offices after the CNA reported to administration on 9/11/17. The administrator further indicated the reporting CNA was re-educated on the reporting requirements to the state offices. |
2020-09-01 |