cms_ME: 794

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
794	COLONIAL HEALTH CARE	205113	36 WORKMAN TERRACE STREET	LINCOLN	ME	4457	2017-07-13	354	B	1	1	OVE811	> Based on interviews, review of the facility's Licensed Nurse Schedule and timecards, the facility failed to ensure that a Registered Nurse was on duty daily, at least 8 consecutive hours, for 26 of 34 weekend shifts reviewed over a 4 month period in (YEAR) (March, April, May, June). Findings: On 7/10/17 at 11:26 a.m., during the entrance conference with a surveyor, the Administrator stated the facility had no nursing staffing waivers. 1. Review of the Licensed Nurse Schedule and timecards for weekend shifts for the month of (MONTH) revealed the following weekend dates utilized no Registered Nurse services for 8 consecutive hours: 3/4/17, 3/11/17, 3/12/17, 3/18/17, and 3/19/17. 2. Review of the Licensed Nurse Schedule and timecards for weekend shifts for the month of (MONTH) revealed the following weekend dates utilized no Registered Nurse services for 8 consecutive hours: 4/1/17, 4/2/17, 4/8/17, 4/9/17, 4/15/17, 4/16/17, 4/22/17, 4/23/17, and 4/29/17. 3. Review of the Licensed Nurse Schedule and timecards for weekend shifts for the month of (MONTH) revealed the following weekend dates utilized no Registered Nurse services for 8 consecutive hours: 5/6/17, 5/13/17, 5/14/17, 5/27/17, and 5/28/17. 4. Review of the Licensed Nurse Schedule and timecards for weekend shifts for the month of (MONTH) revealed the following weekend dates utilized no Registered Nurse services for 8 consecutive hours: 6/3/17, 6/4/17, 6/10/17, 6/11/17, 6/17/17, 6/18/17, and 6/24/17. On 7/12/17 at 10:50 a.m., during an interview with three surveyors, the Administrator confirmed there was not a Registered Nurse on duty for many of the weekend shifts because they were unable to find a Registered Nurse to work as staffing agencies will only provide the facility with a Licensed Practical Nurse. The Administrator stated that the Director of Nursing is at home on the weekends and has her computer with her in case there are any issues.	2020-09-01