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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
17 RYDER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 405018 355 AVE FONT MARTELO HUMACAO PR 792 2017-05-04 428 E 0 1 ZOYB11 Based on a recertification extended survey, ten records reviewed (RR), interviews with the nursing staff and with the Physician (employee #6) and drug regimen review policies and procedures (P&P's) performed during a recertification survey from 5/2 to 5/4/17 from 8:30 am until 5:00 pm, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that a drug regimen review will be perform during the resident's admission process, as observed in 1 out of 10 RR, (RR #4 ) Findings include: 1. During RR #4 review performed on 5/3/17 at 1:00 pm it was found that the Registered Nurse (RN) who performed the admission's process wrote the following: Resident is alone, he can not bring requested information. This form was dated by the RN on 4/27/17. However, 6 days have passed since the admitted and no evidence was found of the nursing staff requesting the resident's family members information related to the medications that the resident was taking at home. According to interview with the physician (employee #6) performed on 5/4/17 at 8:30 am, he obtained the medications information from resident's son and the resident was taking at home the following mediations: - Aricept 5 mg 1 tab by mouth at bed time (HS) - Klonopin 1 mg 1 tab by mouth at bed time (HS) - Plavix 75 mg 1 tab by mouth daily However, the nursing staff failed to make arrangements with family members to obtain the information needed to fill out the drug regimen review in a manner that resident's treatment will not be delayed. 2020-09-01