cms_ME: 584

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
584 HORIZONS LIVING AND REHAB CENTER 205085 29 MAURICE DRIVE BRUNSWICK ME 4011 2017-09-21 514 B 0 1 LBFR11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to maintain an accurate Medication Administration Record (MAR) in accordance with physician orders [REDACTED].#69). Finding: On 9/20/17, in review of Resident #69's record, he/she was diagnosed with [REDACTED]. On 6/22/17, the provider increased the scheduled Trazadone frequency to 25 mg twice daily (BID) and according to a Gradual Dose Reduction (GDR) signed by the Provider on 7/14/17 he/she ordered the discontinuation of Trazadone 25 mg PRN every 6 hours. Review of MAR's dated (MONTH) (YEAR) and (MONTH) (YEAR) reveals the PRN order remained on the MAR and as a result the resident received Trazadone 25 mg PRN on the following 5 dates after the medication had been discontinued: 7/16, 7/20, 7/29, 8/3, 8/4. On 8/8/17, the provider reinitiated the Trazadone 25 mg PRN. Following the incident the facility completed an incident report and the issue was corrected, this finding reflects past non-compliance. On 9/20/17 at 12:16 p.m., in an interview with the Director of Nursing (DON), he/she confirmed the past non-compliance finding. 2020-09-01