cms_NE: 12055

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
12055 LITZENBERG MEMORIAL COUNTY HOSPITAL 28A050 1715 26TH STREET CENTRAL CITY NE 68826 2011-03-31 287 C 0 1 17OG11 Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure that Resident Assessments were transmitted within the required time frame for 9 of 9 residents reviewed (Residents 1,5, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, 19 and 20.) Sample size was 10 plus 10 non sampled residents. The facility census was 31. Findings are: Interview with the MDS (Minimum Data Set ( A federally mandated comprehensive assessment tool used for care planning) Coordinator on 3/30/11 at 2:34 PM revealed that the facility's software had been having technical difficulties and that the facility has not been able to transmit with out late submission errors since September of 2010. The MDS Coordinator went on to report that the software vendor had been notified of the technical errors numerous times since the errors began and that the technical errors still continued. Review of the facility's CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Submission Final Validation Reports dated 3/15/11, 3/16/11, 3/21/11, 3/23/11 and 3/24/11 revealed that Resident's 1, 5, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18 and 19 had a submission message of "Record Submitted Late: The submission date is more than 14 days after the (MDS Completion Date) or (Care Plan Completion Date).." Review of the Long - Term Care Resident Assessment Instrument User's Manual 3.0 dated July 2010 revealed, "Comprehensive assessments must be transmitted electronically within 14 days of the Care Plan Completion Date. All other MDS assessments must be submitted within 14 days of the MDS Completion Date." 2014-11-01