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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
47 DAMAS HOSPITAL SNF 405023 2213 PONCE BY PASS PONCE PR 717 2019-03-28 921 F 0 1 HR5211 Based on recertification survey, observations and interviews with employee #6, it was determined that facility failed to maintain a functional and comfortable physical therapy (PT) area related to restrooms not available in the PT area which can affect all admitted resident. Findings include: On 03/27/19 at 02:26 PM it was found that the facility did not have a restroom on the PT area. On interview with the PT Supervisor (employee #6) refer that in the area they do not have restroom but outside they have one and they take there the residents that are prepared to go to the restroom. The resident who are not prepared we call the escort and take them to their rooms. The PT area is in the first floor and the resident rooms are on the third floor. When employee #6 was ask to show the restroom it provides evidence that the restroom key was not on PT area and the employee #6 went to the administration office and ask for the key. At front of the restroom there is a sign that have written Ask for the key on the front desk. The facility failed to maintain a functional and comfortable physical therapy (PT) area related to restroom not available in the PT area for residents' use. 2020-09-01