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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
14 BRUSHY CREEK POST ACUTE 425004 101 COTTAGE CREEK CIRCLE GREER SC 29650 2019-05-16 550 D 0 1 Y5WG11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observations and interview, the facility failed to ensure that residents were treated with respect and dignity in three of 12 Cottages observed. Staff and/or contractor were observed entering residents' rooms without knocking. (Forsythia, Dogwood and Azalea) The findings included: An observation in the Forsythia Cottage on 5/13/19 at approximately 11:30 AM revealed Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #1 entering Resident #367 room without knocking. The resident was observed sitting in a wheelchair in his/her room. During an interview on 5/13/19 at approximately 11:33 AM with LPN #1 confirmed the observation. LPN #1 then smiled and knocked on the resident bedside table and playfully stated I have knocked now. A random observation in the Dogwood Cottage on 5/13/19 at approximately 3:13 PM revealed Activity staff entering room [ROOM NUMBER] without knocking. The resident was in the room in bed when the staff member entered the room. During an interview on 5/13/19 at approximately 3:18 PM with the Activity staff confirmed the observation. The Activity staff stated he/she does not generally knock on the resident's door if the door is opened and the resident is looking out toward the door. A random observation in the Azalea Cottage on 5/14/19 at approximately 12:05 PM revealed a nurse entering room [ROOM NUMBER] without knocking. The resident was in the room in bed. A random observation in the Azalea Cottage on 5/14/19 at approximately 12:21 PM revealed someone testing the alarms entering multiple residents' rooms without knocking. During an interview on 5/14/19 at approximately 12:25 PM revealed the alarm tester to be an Outside Fire Contractor who was entering the resident's rooms without knocking. 2020-09-01