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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
15	BRUSHY CREEK POST ACUTE	425004	101 COTTAGE CREEK CIRCLE	GREER	SC	29650	2019-05-16	565	E	0	1	Y5WG11	Based on interviews and review of the Resident Council Minutes, the facility failed to ensure residents grievance were addressed related to staff being accessible in the cottages. Eight of eight group members and four months of resident council minutes. The findings included: During the agency group interview on 5/14/19 at approximately 10:32 AM eight of eight residents deemed alert, oriented and interview-able by the facility expressed concerns about staff being accessible in the cottages when needed. One resident stated that it takes several hours to see a nurse when needed because there may be one nurse at times who was responsible for rotating between three cottages. Another resident agreed that it takes staff a long time to address needs because staff rotate to other cottages. The resident who expressed concerns about one nurse covering three cottages stated he/she was not sure if one certified nursing aide had to cover three cottages as well. The residents stated they have addressed their concerns in resident council meetings. A review of the resident council minutes on 5/14/19 revealed at the 4/25/19 meeting there were concerns of getting medicine late due to nurse being in another cottage, certified nursing aides (CNA) on cells phone and certified nursing aides cutting off call lights saying they will return, and they do not return. The 3/27/19 resident meetings indicated medication was still being provided late, there are still issues with the certified nursing aides and staff not available to answer phones at night when family members are trying to contact the resident. The 2/28/19 resident meeting indicated concerns with late medications, CNA on cell phones. The (MONTH) 2019 minutes indicated concerns with late medications, cottages being un-staffed at night and CNAs telling residents they are alone in the cottages and unable to answer call lights. During an interview on 5/16/19 at approximately 8:16 AM with the Administrator revealed he/she was aware of the residents' concerns regarding staffing and that it had been an ongoing issue due to how the facility was set up. The Administrator further stated he/she does try to address each identified residents' concerns.	2020-09-01