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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
12432 GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN HOME 285148 2242 WRIGHT STREET BLAIR NE 68008 2010-06-10 252 E 0 1 P9FH11 LICENSURE REFERENCE NUMBER 175 NAC-12-006.18 Based on observation, and interviews, the nursing facility staff failed to provide a save, homelike environment that was in good repair, in the whirlpool bathing area, the window in room 201, and the dust covered ventilation grille in rooms 201, 303, 304 and 306. The sampled residents consisted of 16 plus 10 non-sampled residents. The facility census totaled 80 residents. Findings are: On 06/09/2010, from 10:00 A.M. to 11:50 A.M., during the tour of the nursing facility accompanied by the Director of Maintenance, the Administrator and the Maintenance person for the nursing facility; the following concerns were observed: *The wall sconce in the whirlpool bathing area had no cover over the exposed light bulb. This had the potential to effect 36 residents that receive whirlpool baths. * In room 201, Resident 26 commented, " when it rains the window leaks; the water comes in and runs by the bed side when it rains " . Interview with the Maintenance Director noted that the window had been replaced just 2 weeks ago and did not know it leaked until now. On 6/10/10, heavy rain showers were received in the early morning. The Director of Maintenance checked room 201 around 8:30 A.M. and confirmed the rain had come through the window and had run down by the bed side. *The grille cover to the outside air vent were coated with an accumulation of gray substance in 201, 303 304 and 306. - The observations were confirmed by the facility staff. 2014-07-01