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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
10155 CAROLINAS HOSP SYS TRANS CARE 425177 121 EAST CEDAR STREET FLORENCE SC 29501 2012-02-08 309 E     4V0311 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the Recertification Survey, based on record review, review of the policy entitled [MEDICAL TREATMENT] and interview, the facility failed to consistently document checking for thrill and bruit of the arteriovenous (AV) graft for Resident #1 used for his [MEDICAL TREATMENT]. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #1 on 12/26/11 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Record review of the nurses notes on 2/8/12 revealed the nurses had not consistently documented checking for thrill and bruit of the resident's AV graft. The record review revealed that the thrill and bruit had not been documented for a total of 22 days since the resident's admission to the facility. On 20 days there was documentation of a positive thrill and bruit and there was one day for which no documentation could be found. After sharing this information with the Director of Nursing, the facility did not dispute the findings or provide any additional documentation that the thrill and bruit had been checked. On 2/8/12 review of the facility's policy entitled [MEDICAL TREATMENT] in the section designated as "Post-[MEDICAL TREATMENT] Nursing Responsibilities" revealed..."Assess and document status of access site every four hours and prn (as needed)." At that time the Director of Nursing verified that the policy did not specifically address checking for thrill and bruit of an AV graft for residents receiving [MEDICAL TREATMENT]. 2014-04-01