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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
1503 AZRIA HEALTH ASHLAND 285140 1700 FURNAS STREET ASHLAND NE 68003 2019-04-16 584 D 0 1 19PP11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Licensure Reference Number 175 NAC 12-12-006.18A(1) Based on observation and interview, the facility failed to maintain the cleanliness of ventilation system covers in 2 resident bathrooms (resident rooms 119/121 (shared bathroom) and room [ROOM NUMBER]) , failed to maintain the cleanliness of the base of the toilet in 1 resident bathroom (resident rooms 120 / 122 (shared bathroom) and failed to ensure a cleanable surface of a fall alarm mat in room [ROOM NUMBER]. There were a total of 34 occupied resident rooms and 39 resident bathrooms in the facility. The facility census was 69. Findings are: Observation on 04/15/19 between 2:25 PM and 02:49 PM identified the following issues in the environment: - Dark brown stains surrounded the base of the toilet in the shared bathroom in rooms 119 / 121. - Gray fuzzy substance that resembled dust was present on the exterior and interior of the ventilation system cover in the ceiling of room [ROOM NUMBER] and the shared bathroom for rooms 120 / 122. Observation on 04/15/19 at 03:13 PM revealed a fall alarm mat placed and duck taped to the entrance of room [ROOM NUMBER] on the floor. There was also a fall alarm mat duct taped to the floor in front of the recliner. The edges of the duct tape were curled onto each other and there were dark particles of dust and dark grime present on the sticky side of the tape that created an unclean surface. Interview on 04/15/19 at 02:52 PM with the Maintenance Director confirmed the stains present on the base of the toilet in the shared bathroom [ROOM NUMBER] / 121 and that the ventilation covers in the shared bathroom in room [ROOM NUMBER] / 122 and room [ROOM NUMBER] were dust coated and needed cleaning. Interview on 04/15/19 at 03:17 PM with the Maintenance Director confirmed the presence of duct taped fall mats at the entrance of room [ROOM NUMBER] and in front of the recliner in room [ROOM NUMBER]. The MD confirmed that the exposed sticky sides of the duct tape were not a cleanable surface. 2020-09-01