cms_RI: 98

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
98 GOLDEN CREST NURSING CENTRE 415029 100 SMITHFIELD ROAD NORTH PROVIDENCE RI 2904 2020-02-04 692 E 1 1 XRKT11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on record review and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure that a resident maintains acceptable parameters of nutritional status, such as usual body weight or desirable body weight range for 1 of 6 residents reviewed for nutrition, ID # 86. Findings are as follows: Review of the facility policy titled: Obtaining Height and Weights reads in part: Procedure: 3 .If the resident weight reflects a five pound fluctuations obtain a re-weigh. Record review revealed Resident ID #86 was admitted to the facility in July of 2019 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Further review revealed a physician's order dated 09/02/2019 for weekly weight, once a day on Wednesday's. Review of a progress note written by the Registered Dietitian (RD) dated 01/03/2020 revealed the Resident's weight was 120 pounds (lbs.) Review of Resident ID # 86's weight record for January 2020 revealed the following weights: 01/01/2020 120 lbs. 01/08/2020 114.2 lbs. 01/15/2020 113 lbs. 01/22/2020 114.2 lbs. 01/29/2020 114 lbs. This indicates a significant weight loss of 5% in 1 week. There was no evidence of a re-weigh. Record review failed to reveal evidence that the significant weight loss was reviewed or reported to the RD and/or Physician. An interview was conducted on 01/30/2020 at 11:56 AM with the RD. She revealed she was unaware of the 5% weight loss. 2020-09-01