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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
31	EASTMONT TOWERS	285036	6315 O STREET	LINCOLN	NE	68510	2017-03-30	371	F	0	1	GDOK11	LICENSURE REFERENCE 175 NAC 12-006.11E Based on observation, interview, and record review; the facility failed to ensure a Food Service Provider washed hands in a manner to prevent potential for food born illness and failed to ensure frozen foods were stored in a sanitary manor. These failures had the potential to affect all of the resident's residing in the facility. The facility census was 9. Findings are [NAME] A review of the Facility's HANDWASHING POLICY AND PR[NAME]EDURE initated 2/1/17 revealed the procedure included use a clean paper towel to dry hands and use a paper towel to turn off water. An observation on 3/28/17 at 10:45 AM of Chef-A preparing fresh vegetables revealed the Chef washed hands at appropriate times throughout the preparation. Observation of the Chef's handwashing technique revealed hands were washed the appropriate amount of time. The Cook was noted to: obtain paper towels, turn off the water faucets, and then with the same paper towels dried hands and arms possibly recontaminating hands. The Chef returned to the task of cutting/prepping the vegetables using bare hands. Observations on 03/30/2017 from 8:05 AM to 8:20 AM of Chef-A during food preparation (prep) revealed the Chef washed hands at appropriate times, paper towels were obtained and used to turn the water faucets were turned off. Chef-A then dried hands using the same paper towels. The Chef preformed handwashing in the same manner three times during the food prep observation. An interview on 03/30/2017 at 08:22 AM with Chef-A revealed the Chef was knowledgeable of need for proper handwashing at the proper times while preparing food items. The Cook confirmed using the paper towel to turn off the faucets prior to drying hands and reported that clean paper towels should be used to dry hands if the towels had been first used to turn off the water faucets. B. An observation on 03/30/2017 at 8:25 AM in the Facility's large walk in freezer revealed a gallon sized plastic container of ice cream on the floor under the food storage shelving unit. The Food Service Director (FSD) collected the container and further observation of the container revealed it had been opened and approximately 1/2 of the contents was gone. The container was not marked with the date the ice cream was opened and the remaining product was covered with ice crystals. The FSD placed the unmarked ice cream container into the trash. Further observation in the freezer revealed 5 individually wrapped ice cream sandwiches and an individual styrofoam container of ice cream, on the floor under the shelving unit. The floor of the freezer also contained several areas of visible debris. An interview on 03/30/2017 at 8:30 AM with the FSD revealed routine audits were completed in the kitchen and dietary staff were aware of the need to clean the floor of the walk in freezer. The FSD confirmed the identification of ice cream products on the floor of the freezer and the lack of marking the container with the date it was opened.	2020-09-01