cms_SC: 10253

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
10253 HERITAGE HEALTHCARE OF PICKENS 425306 163 LOVE & CARE ROAD SIX MILE SC 29682 2010-10-26 156 B     M5SK11 On the days of the survey, based on record review and interview, the facility failed to provide timely Notice of Medicare Provider Non-Coverage notification for 4 of 5 residents reviewed for Change in Pay Source. The findings Included: Review of residents files for change in pay source revealed four of five residents had not received timely notification of Medicare Provider Non-Coverage. Resident A's Notice of Medicare Provider Non-Coverage indicated that effective 1/11/2010 his/her coverage of current skilled nursing services would end. Further review revealed the resident had not received notification of the change in pay source until 1/11/2010. Resident B's Notice of Medicare Provider Non-Coverage indicated that effective 6/11/2010 his/her coverage of current skilled nursing services would end. Further review revealed the resident had not received notification of the change in pay source until the 6/11/10. Resident C's Notice of Medicare Provider Non-Coverage indicated that effective 6/11/2010 his/her coverage of current skilled nursing services would end. Further review revealed the resident had not received notification of the change in pay source until the 6/11/2010. Resident D's Notice of Medicare Provider Non-Coverage indicated that effective 1/14/2010 his/her coverage of current skilled nursing services would end. Further review revealed the resident had not received notification of the change in pay source until the 1/14/2010. During an interview with the Business Office Manager (BOM) on 10/25/10 at approximately 3:30 PM he/she stated " They wanted to go home that day, so we did not have time to give notice". The medical records for residents B and C showed a form titled Notification of Therapy Change which was dated 6/2/10 for resident C. (7 days in advance). and Resident B's form was dated 6/7/10. (4 days in advance). The BOM stated when asked what this form was for, "that is how they let us know the time is ending." 2014-02-01