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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
274 CENTRO MEDICO WILMA N VAZQUEZ SNF 405025 ROAD 2 KM 39 5 BO ALGARROBO VEGA BAJA PR 693 2015-06-18 371 F 0 1 1RD011 Based on the kitchen observational tour, review of policies/procedures and interview with the (employee #3) Dietitian administrative, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure a safety place for the store, prepare and serve food under sanitary conditions which can affect 21 of 21 admitted residents. (R#1 to #21) Findings include: 1. The entrance floor of the refrigerator has a water puddle. Floor tiles was missing (the area has a rough finish) mold in the corners of the floor was observed. 2. Water leak behind the ice vending machine. 3. Stack of tray rusty. 4. Floor inside the freezer need to be clean and maintenance. 5. In the sink on front of the freezer the following was observed: a) There is 2 bucket full of water with cloth inside. b) Besides the sink and near of the jam cutter machine rack full of cleaning detergent. c) One packages of chicken were observed defrosting in this sink in the original package under cool running water. 6. Humidity odor in the disposable product storage was sensed. 7. Moldy ceiling tiles over the dry food storage air conditioner. 8. The employee bathroom (man and woman) are closed because there remodeling. 9.At the Dry Storage room the following was observed: a. A puddle was observed because the air conditioning has a leak. b. The wall was observed with old stain and pipe tube running through the wall cover with mold. c. Ceiling tiles out of place. 2018-10-01