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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
707 SAN GERARDO HOSP 405022 MSC 250 WINSTON CHURCHIL AVE 138 RIO PIEDRAS PR 926 2010-02-19 323 D     OWRV11 Based on observations made during a physical environment tour with the physical plant manager, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that the physical environment is as free of accident hazards as possible for one out of twenty-five admitted residents (random sample resident #10) related to the placement of containers used for garbage and biohazardous trash. Findings include: The facility has a total of thirteen resident's rooms as observed during a physical environment tour on 2/19/10 from 8:30 am till 10:00 am with the physical plant manager (employee #52). All resident's rooms are double occupancy rooms. Random sample resident #13 was observed in room #110 bed A (closest to the front door) as she was exiting from the bathroom located near bed B. The resident was using a walker (left total knee replacement) and had to turn the walker to the side in order to pass between bed B and the containers used to place regular and biohazardous trash. One foot and seven inches was measured between the foot of bed B and the trash container and two feet were measured between bed A and the biohazardous container. For double occupancy rooms a minimum of four feet clearance is required between the foot of the bed and nearest object to ensure path of movement for staff and residents. The facility failed to ensure that the containers for regular and biohazardous trash were arranged to facilitate movement for this resident, the placement of these containers created an obstacle for this physically compromised resident and a possible tripping hazard. 2014-02-01