cms_PR: 309
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.
This data as json, copyable
|
rowid
|
facility_name
|
facility_id
|
address
|
city
|
state
|
zip
|
inspection_date
|
deficiency_tag
|
scope_severity
|
complaint
|
standard
|
eventid
|
inspection_text
|
filedate
|
| 309 |
DAMAS HOSPITAL SNF |
405023 |
2213 PONCE BY PASS |
PONCE |
PR |
717 |
2015-05-18 |
516 |
F |
0 |
1 |
1VLO11 |
Based on observations during the tour on the inactive record department on 5/18/15 at 1:40 pm, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that inactive medical records are filed under proper safety conditions. Findings include: 1.During the observational tour performed on 5/18/2015 at 1:40 pm for the extended survey with the Administration personnel (Employee #26) in the inactive record room it was observed a lot of boxes over wooden pallets. On the room it has an estimated over two hundred boxes of inactive medical records of the hospital and SNF. The storage was observed dirty, not organized, water stain in the wall because the air conditioning got problems and flood the storage, ceiling tiles with mold and boxes were observed broken. 2. Facility failed to ensure that all inactive medical records are filed and maintain under proper safety conditions. 3. Interviewing employee #26 on 5/18/15 at 1:45 pm it was reveals that the facility hired two people by contract to destroy the inactive medical record for more than 7 years. Surveyor asked to Human Resources Director (employee #10) about the contract, qualifications and training of these two persons and no evidence was provided at the moment it was requested. 4. Interviewing employee # 25 (Clinical Record Supervisor) on 5/18/15 at 2:40 pm it was found that the facility at this moment is still working on written clinical record and he do not know when the electronic record is going to start officially be implement. |
2018-09-01 |