cms_ME: 96

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
96 ORONO COMMONS 205031 117 BENNOCH RD ORONO ME 4473 2019-07-31 760 E 1 0 UEYP11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on closed record review and interviews, the facility failed to ensure 1 of 10 sampled residents was free of a significant medication error (#9). Finding: On 7/31/19 during a review of Resident #9's clinical record and the Electronic Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. The EMAR indicates on 7/9/19 [MEDICATION NAME] (antipsychotic medication) 25 mg po at bedtime for anxiety/depression for 7 days until finished then start 50 mg on 7/16/19 was entered into their system instead of the [MEDICATION NAME] resulting in Resident #9 receiving 7 doses of [MEDICATION NAME] 25 mg from 7/9/19 to 7/15/19 without a physician's orders [REDACTED]. On 7/31/19 at 11:58 a.m. a surveyor confirmed with the Center Nurse Executive that Resident #9 did receive [MEDICATION NAME] 25 mg instead of [MEDICATION NAME] 25 mg for a total of 7 doses from 7/9/19 to 7/15/19. 2020-09-01