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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
55 NEWTON CENTER 205012 35 JULY STREET SANFORD ME 4073 2018-12-13 812 D 0 1 IWWA11 Based on observations and interview, the facility failed to serve food in a sanitary manner on 1 of 3 survey days. Finding: On 12/13/18 at 9:04 a.m., two Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) entered the 100 Unit kitchenette. CNA #1 removed bread from a bread bag with ungloved hands and placed the bread in a toaster. CNA #2 also removed bread from the bread bag with ungloved hands and awaited use of the toaster. With ungloved hands, CNA #1 removed the toast from the toaster and placed it on a plate. The surveyor intervened and discussed the practice of handling ready to eat foods with bare hands. The CNAs then obtained gloves to handle ready to eat foods. At 12/13/18 on 11:00 a.m. in an interview with the Manager of Food Services and Chef, the surveyor confirmed that staff cannot handle ready to eat foods with bare hands. 2020-09-01