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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
12737 BROOKEFIELD PARK 285226 1405 HERITAGE DRIVE ST PAUL NE 68873 2010-06-02 225 D     CCHB11 Based on record review and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure that all staff immediately notified Administration of allegations of abuse for 1 incident involving 2 staff members. The facility census was 41 at the time of the annual survey/complaint investigation and the survey sample size was 11. Findings are: A. Review of the facility policy and procedure concerning ABUSE AND NEGLECT PREVENTION STANDARD dated 4/2009 revealed the following definition of verbal abuse: " The use of oral, written or gestured language that willfully includes disparaging and derogatory terms used with or to residents, their families or within their hearing distance, regardless of their age, ability to comprehend or disability. Examples of verbal abuse include but are not limited to: threats of harm, saying things to frighten a resident, such as telling a resident that he/she will never be able to see his/her family again " . B. Further review of the facility policy and procedure concerning ABUSE AND NEGLECT PREVENTION STANDARD dated 4/2009 revealed the following under REPORTING/RESPONSE: " It is the responsibility of any employee, visitor or resident to report any act of witnessed or suspected abuse to their supervisor or the Administrator immediately " . C. Review of the facility abuse investigations for the past 9 months revealed that on 9/29/2009, allegations of verbal abuse were reported to the SSD (Social Service Designee) of the facility. Documentation on the ABUSE/NEGLECT INVESTIGATION REPORT dated 9/29/2009 revealed that NA (Nursing Assistant) J had been caring for Resident 15. Resident 15 had become combative/resistant with cares and NA J had told Resident 15 that " If you ' f_____g ' hit me again, I ' ll knock you out " . According to documentation on the ABUSE/NEGLECT INVESTIGATION REPORT, the incident had been witnessed by NA A approximately 2 weeks prior to being reported. D. Interview on 6/1/2010 at 10:00 AM with the SSD revealed that NA J and NA A had been working with Resident 15 when the incident occurred. Resident 15 had become combative with cares, hitting, pinching, kicking and grabbing things. The SSD stated that NA A reported that NA J had informed Resident 15 that " If you ' f_____g ' hit me again, I ' ll knock you out " . The SSD stated that NA A said the incident occurred approximately 2 weeks prior to being reported on 9/29/09 to the CN (Charge Nurse) J. CN J reported the incident immediately to the Administration and appropriate interventions were taken to protect the residents. The SSD stated that NA A didn ' t report the incident to the Administration because NA A didn ' t know how to handle it and prayed for guidance because NA A and NA J were " friends " . E. Interview on 6/1/2010 at 10:26 AM with the Administrator revealed that as soon as CN J became aware of the incident on 9/29/09, CN J reported immediately to the DON (Director of Nursing) and the Administrator was notified. Corrective action was taken by the facility with NA J being immediately suspended and then terminated on 10/1/2009 after the investigation was completed. NA A was no longer employed by the facility. 2014-04-01