cms_RI: 51

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
51	APPLE REHAB WATCH HILL	415015	79 WATCH HILL ROAD	WESTERLY	RI	2891	2018-10-09	567	B	0	1	XNYN11	Based on record review and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to obtain written authorization of residents for whom the facility is holding personal funds for 3 of 5 residents reviewed, ID#s 3, 16, 34. Findings are as follows: Review of the facility's records relative to resident personal needs funds on 10/5/2018 at approximately 3:00PM revealed that the facility was holding funds for resident ID#s 3, 16, 34. Further record review failed to reveal evidence that written authorization had been obtained from the residents or their representatives to hold the funds. During an interview with the person responsible for handling resident personal needs funds at the time of the review, he could not provide evidence that written authorization had been obtained.	2020-09-01