cms_ME: 79

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
79 BANGOR NURSING & REHABILITATION 205020 103 TEXAS AVE BANGOR ME 4401 2017-09-14 323 D 0 1 B3L911 Based on observations and interview, the facility failed to ensure lancets and insulin needles were stored in a safe manner and failed to ensure that the licensed medication/treatment cart was locked for 1 of 4 days of survey. Finding: On 9/11/17 at 7:30 a.m., the surveyor observed the licensed medication/treatment cart in the A-Unit corridor, up against the wall near Room 20. The second drawer of the treatment cart was opened approximately 3 inches and lancets were seen in the drawer. The cart contained lancets, insulin needles, insulins, and treatment supplies. There were wandering residents in the corridor and the treatment nurse was not in eye view of the cart. The Director of Nursing Services confirmed that the medication/treatment cart was left open and with a drawer opened. 2020-09-01