cms_ME: 59

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
59 AROOSTOOK HEALTH CENTER 205018 PO BOX 410 MARS HILL ME 4758 2017-06-14 309 D 0 1 OWZD11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to follow a physician order [REDACTED]. Finding: Resident #115's physician orders [REDACTED]. There were no additional physician orders [REDACTED]. On 6/12/17, at 12:00 p.m., Resident #115's electronic Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. Resident #115 received doses of [MEDICATION NAME] on Saturday, 6/3/17 at 9:14 a.m. and 12:51 p.m., because Resident #115 was complaining of anxiety, on Sunday, (MONTH) 4 at 11:17 a.m., for anxiety after getting out of bed, and on Thursday, (MONTH) 8 at 3:39 p.m. with no reason given documented. In addition, the nurse's progress notes, dated Wednesday 6/7/17 at 10:50 a.m., indicated Resident #115 received a wound vac change, however; the EMAR lacked evidence that [MEDICATION NAME] 0.5 mg by mouth was administered 30 minutes prior to the wound vac change as directed by the physician order. On 6/12/17 at 2:45 p.m., during an interview with a surveyor, Registered Nurse (RN) #1 confirmed that the [MEDICATION NAME] was not always administered as the physician order [REDACTED]. 2020-09-01