cms_MT: 474

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
474 CEDAR WOOD VILLA 275053 1 S OAKS RED LODGE MT 59068 2019-11-27 761 D 0 1 L3PD11 Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure all drugs and biological's were maintained in locked compartments when unattended. Findings include: During an observation on 11/25/19 at 4:54 p.m., staff member H was preparing insulin for a resident. The medication cart was parked on the south hall, against the wall, near room S10. Staff member H left the cart in the hall, unlocked and unattended, while she administered insulin to a resident in his room across the hall. Upon return to the cart, staff member H did not comment on the unlocked cart, and continued to pass medications as if nothing untoward had occurred. During an observation on 11/26/19 at 8:03 a.m., staff member F prepared medications for administration on the south hall, near room S12. Staff member F left the medication cart in the hall, unlocked and unattended. Staff member F entered room S12, gave the medications and returned to the medication cart. When asked what the facility policy was for locking the medication cart, staff member F stated, The cart should always be locked when unattended. Review of facility's policy, Medication Pass, dated (MONTH) 2019, showed, Medication cart should never be left unattended when unlocked. 2020-09-01