cms_PR: 46

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
46	DAMAS HOSPITAL SNF	405023	2213 PONCE BY PASS	PONCE	PR	717	2019-03-28	812	F	0	1	HR5211	Based on a recertification survey, observational tour of the facility's kitchen during a survey process performed from 03/25/19 thru 03/28/19, from 8:00 am thru 3:00 pm, with administrative dietitian ( employee #4) it was identified that the facility failed to comply with accepted infection control precautions and standards of practice. Findings include: 1. A mechanism to ensure that facility personnel maintain infection prevention and control food hygiene guidelines was not promoted not performed, accordingly with the following findings identified during survey procedures performed from 03/25/19 thru 03/28/19, from 8:00 am thru 3:00 pm: On 03/25/19 from 9:40 am through 10:05 am the following was identified during observational tour in the kitchen with the administrative dietitian: a. One electric oscillating fan supported by and adjustable stand was observed in front of the food production area (area where stoves and tray line is located). This fan was observed in need of cleaning. b. One kitchen employee (employee #5) was observed moving from the three compartment sink area to the kitchen administrative office with gloves on. He came inside the office and then move to the area where the tray washing machine is located without taking off the gloves. The facility failed to ensure personnel change gloves when change task or move from different areas on the kitchen in order to prevent cross contamination. c. During review of the registry log for the sanitation and temperature of the three compartment sink it was identified that on 03/05/19 percent of sanitation chemical and temperature was not recorded in the morning.	2020-09-01