cms_SC: 10203

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
10203 ELLEN SAGAR NURSING HOME 425012 1817 JONESVILLE HIGHWAY UNION SC 29379 2010-09-15 468 E     A4CW11 On the days of the survey, based on observation and interview, the facility failed to equip multiples areas in the corridors with handrails. The findings included: On 9/15/10 at approximately 1:55 PM, multiple areas leading into or on corridors were observed without handrails affixed to the walls. Areas included, but were not limited to: -an area approximately 3 1/2 feet at the entrance to Rocky Road Hall on the left and right sides of the hall -an area approximately 3 1/2 feet at the entrance to Rainbow Row Hall on the right side of the hall -approximately 5 feet across from the Unit I Nurses Station -a section approximately 8 feet long in a corridor behind the Unit I Nurses Station -the entire length of the corridor connecting Unit I and Unit II on both sides of the hallway -two 5 foot sections and two 3 1/2 foot sections on Unit II at the Nurses Station and several other areas leading into the 3 halls from the nurses station. During an interview on 9/14/10 at approximately 4:15 PM, the Maintenance Director verified multiple areas were without handrails and stated that the corridor between Units I and II had never had handrails as far as he knew. He also stated that the area behind the Unit I Nurses Station "looks like there used to be one there." 2014-03-01