cms_RI: 37

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
37	GRACE BARKER NURSING CENTER	415014	54 BARKER AVENUE	WARREN	RI	2885	2018-03-30	761	E	1	1	N83B11	NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY > Based on surveyor observations and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure that medication bottles were dated when opened for 6 of 9 [MEDICATION NAME] Concentrate. Findings are as follows: Surveyor observation of the refrigerator in the medication room, on 3/28/2018 at 10:51 AM, noted nine bottles of open [MEDICATION NAME] Liquid, 6 were undated when opened. Manufacturer's instructions written on the box state, discard opened bottle after 90 days. During an interview immediately after the above observation with the Unit Manager, she was unable to explain why the [MEDICATION NAME] Concentrate were open and not dated. You are hereby formally notified that where the above listed deficiencies also constitute non-compliance with applicable provisions of the Rules and Regulations for Licensing of Nursing Facilities they are deficiencies under State Regulations and grounds for licensure sanctions.	2020-09-01