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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
6236 NORTH PLATTE CARE CENTER, LLC 285165 2900 WEST E STREET NORTH PLATTE NE 69101 2015-12-10 156 F 0 1 JGHO11 Licensure Reference Number 175 NAC 12-006.06C Based on observations, interviews and record reviews; the facility failed to ensure 1) that the Resident Council President was informed of the State Agency and the Ombudsman phone number and, 2) the the information containing the phone numbers for the State Agency and the Ombudsman were accessible to residents at the facility. The facility census was 49. Findings are: Observation on 12/9/15 at 10:00 AM revealed that the posted information containing the State Agency phone number and the Ombudsman phone number were posted at the end of an employee hallway. Further observation revealed that hallway was not accessible to residents of the facility. Review of the Resident Council Minutes from (MONTH) (YEAR) through (MONTH) (YEAR) revealed no written documentation to support that the resident council members had be instructed about the State Agency complaint reporting number or the Ombudsman number. Interview on 12/8/15 at 9:00 AM with the Resident Council President revealed that the president was not aware of a State Agency report number and was not aware of who the Ombudsman was. Further interview revealed that the president was not sure if the numbers were posted and available to all facility residents. Interview on 12/9/15 at 10:30 AM with the Activities Coordinator verified that the State Agency posting and the Ombudsman information was not accessible to the residents at the facility and should have been in a place and area that all residents could read. Further interview confirmed that the residents had not been told about the State Agency number for reporting complaints or the Ombudsman number. Interview on 12/10/15 at 9:45 AM with the Administrator verified that all of the facility residents should have been aware of the State Agency complaint number and the Ombudsman number. Further interview confirmed that the posting containing the information was not available for the residents at the facility and should have been. 2019-05-01