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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
991 CLARK FORK VALLEY NURSING HOME 275107 10 KRUGER RD PLAINS MT 59859 2019-04-04 808 E 0 1 3IN211 Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to provide the therapeutic diet as ordered by the physician for 5 (#s 25, 15, 5, 20 and 21) of 15 sampled and supplemental residents. Findings include: Review of the Other Orders by Type Dietary form, showed: 1. Resident #25 was to receive a General diet. 2. Resident #15 was to receive a Consistent Carbohydrate diet. 3. Resident #5 was to receive a General diet. 4. Resident #20 was to receive a General diet. 5. Resident #21 was to receive a Full diet. Review of the Cooks Notes (the facility did not use tray or meal tickets) showed residents #25, 5 and 20 were on a Regular diet; Resident #15 was receiving a No Concentrated Sweet diet; Resident #21 was receiving a Regular Finger Foods- cut up diet. During an observation on 4/2/19 at 8:16 a.m., resident #21 received a regular textured breakfast, and not Full liquids. During an interview on 4/3/19 at 11:06 a.m., staff member D stated the Full diet would include liquids only. He stated the registered dietitian said the consistent carbohydrate diet could be substituted for the No Concentrated Sweet diet, and the General diet would be the same as the Regular diet. He stated he would have the diet orders changed to match what the facility served. 2020-09-01