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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
42 BELLA TERRA OF BILLINGS 275020 1807 24TH ST W BILLINGS MT 59102 2018-06-14 584 D 0 1 JJY911 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility staff failed to assist moving a resident into her room for 1 (#3) of 19 sampled residents, leaving the resident's room with boxes in the middle of the floor. Findings include: During an observation and interview on 6/11/18 at 2:55 p.m., two large boxes were sitting between resident #3's bed and her bedside table. Resident #3 stated she had been in the hospital. Prior to the hospital visit, the resident's roommate had bed bugs, and the resident had to move to another room. The infected room was sprayed for the bugs and her belongings were treated. The resident stated the social service person had moved her boxes down to her room but no one would help her put her belongings away. The resident stated the CNAs told her the task was not their job and they had too much to do. During an interview on 6/14/18 at 8:45 a.m., staff member S stated she had moved resident #3 back to her room. She had folded the resident's clothes and placed them in the dresser. The staff member stated she had not been back to resident #3's room and was unaware the resident still had unpacked boxes on the floor, in her room. The staff member stated she was unaware no staff had assisted resident #3 to finish unpacking. The staff member stated she had so much work, she could not follow up with resident #3's move. The staff member stated she had hoped the CNAs would have helped the resident with the remaining items. Review of resident #3's progress notes, dated 5/31/18, showed the resident was told she could move back to room [ROOM NUMBER]. The document showed staff could help with the move. 2020-09-01