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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
29 BELLA TERRA OF BILLINGS 275020 1807 24TH ST W BILLINGS MT 59102 2018-03-21 565 E 1 0 U1E811 > Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to provide evidence to show the facility take action to acknowledge and resolve, or attempt to resolve, all concerns brought forth by the resident council. This had the potential to affect all residents who attended the resident council or who had interest in the council's activities, and specifically 2 (#s 6 and 8), of 11 sampled residents. Findings include: During an interview on 3/21/18 at 8:30 a.m., resident #6 said shower/bathing concerns had been brought up repeatedly in resident council meetings. Resident #6 said she went around the facility before resident council meetings and talked to the residents. Resident #6 said the quality of the food and residents not getting showers were the biggest concerns. Resident #6 said the facility was aware of these concerns, but the facility had never responded to resident council concerns in writing. She said everything was verbally addressed. During an interview on 3/20/18 at 2:28 p.m., staff members A and I said they attended the resident council meetings. Staff member I said she was responsible for taking the minutes of the meeting and for the follow through on the concerns voiced in resident council. Staff member I said she was behind in her documentation in the software program. Staff member A said the facility had been treating resident council concerns as grievances since (MONTH) (YEAR). Staff member A said the grievance forms include, Action Item, Follow-up completed by, and Date of resolution. These grievance forms were not included with the resident council meeting minutes. Review of resident council meeting minutes showed; -10/2/17: A resident said her podiatrist was concerned residents were not getting their feet scrubbed properly during showers and the frequency of showers. No response from the facility. -11/6/17: A resident voiced concerns about showers. Another resident suggested a shower schedule be put in place. No response from the facility. -2/5/18: A resident had concerns about showers. No response from the facility. 2020-09-01