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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
1794 CEDAR WOOD VILLA 275053 1 S OAKS RED LODGE MT 59068 2016-05-12 225 E 0 1 XO7K11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure a background check was completed on all employees prior to being hired and failed to ensure one employee received abuse training. Ten of fifteen files were identified as lacking required documents prior to being hired by the facility. Findings include: 1. Staff members F and O had ordered background checks that were not completed. The employees provided resident care during the survey. 2. Staff members E, L, U, V, W, CC, DD, and EE showed a date of hire prior to a background check being completed. 3. Staff member E's employee file lacked evidence of abuse training. During an interview on 5/11/16 at 3:45 p.m., staff member [NAME] stated she had not received abuse training from the facility. She could not identify the types of abuse, nor the facility policy and procedure on reporting alleged abuse. During an interview on 5/11/16 at 4:25 p.m., staff member D stated the facility performs a background check on all employees during orientation. She stated some employees get a background check prior to their hire date and some after their hire date. The turnaround time for a background check is anywhere from 3-8 days. During an interview on 5/12/16 at 8:40 a.m., staff member A, stated she was responsible for ensuring all direct-care staff received abuse training, including types of abuse and whom to report alleged abuse. A review of the facility's Abuse Prevention policy read, 1) SCREENING: All potential employees will be screened for a history of abuse, neglect, or mistreatment of [REDACTED]. The facility will also attempt to obtain information regarding past or current employment. Any negative findings for any of these sources will be evaluated as to the appropriateness of this person's employment with this facility so as to prevent any risk of abuse to our residents. 2020-04-01