cms_ME: 47

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
47 NEWTON CENTER 205012 35 JULY STREET SANFORD ME 4073 2019-12-11 758 D 0 1 T3B011 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record reviews and interviews the facility failed to ensure as needed (PRN) [MEDICAL CONDITION] medications met the required 14-day limit for 1 of 6 residents reviewed for unnecessary medications (Resident #5). Finding: A review of physician's orders [REDACTED]. On review of the resident's current physician's orders [REDACTED]. The medical record lacked evidence the medication order was stopped and there was no evidence the physician reviewed the order to provide rational to continue the (PRN) medication. On 12/10/19 at 2:51 PM in an interview with the Director of Nursing, the surveyor confirmed Resident #5 was prescribed a PRN antipsychotic since 10/8/19 with no stop date after 14 days and no re-evaluation of the order. 2020-09-01