cms_ME: 97

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.

Data source: Big Local News · About: big-local-datasette

This data as json, copyable

rowid facility_name facility_id address city state zip inspection_date deficiency_tag scope_severity complaint standard eventid inspection_text filedate
97 ORONO COMMONS 205031 117 BENNOCH RD ORONO ME 4473 2019-08-20 552 D 1 0 RVHI11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on record reviews and interviews, the facility failed to obtain informed consent for treatment with a psychoactive medication including the risks and benefits of treatment for 1 of 3 sampled residents reviewed for psychoactive medication use (#1). Finding: Resident #1 was sent to Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) on 8/13/19 for an evaluation due to increased agitation. EMMC discharge report dated 8/13/19 had a physician's orders [REDACTED]. Review of resident #1's physician progress notes [REDACTED]. Review of the Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. Resident #1's medical record lacked evidence that he/she and/or responsible family member was informed of the risks and the benefits of treatment with psychoactive medication and lacked evidence that consent was given for treatment with this medication. On 8/20/19 at 1:27 p.m., in an interview with a surveyor, Resident #1, confirmed that the facility did not informed him/her of the risks and benefits of [MEDICATION NAME] or had given consent to use stating, No, I don't. I don't want it. I don't want them to change my head, it's my right. In addition, Resident #1 was unaware that on 8/18/19 he/she received the psychoactive medication. On 8/20/19 at 2:32 p.m., a surveyor confirmed the finding in an interview with the Nurse Practice Educator. 2020-09-01