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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
18 BRUSHY CREEK POST ACUTE 425004 101 COTTAGE CREEK CIRCLE GREER SC 29650 2019-05-16 610 D 1 0 Y5WG11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure that allegations of abuse were thoroughly investigation for 1 of 6 abuse reports reviewed. Resident #365 allegation of abuse had unsigned and undated witness statement and other staff members identified as being present at the time of the incident were not interviewed. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #365 on 3/23/19 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. A review of the facility's complaint investigation on 5/15/19 at approximately 8:35 AM revealed a nurse's statement with no date that indicated Resident #365 and his/her family member reported to the nurse that a Certified Nursing Aide (CNA) that night shift told the resident to hold onto the side rail to be changed because the CNA did not want to hurt his/her back trying to change the resident. The statement allegedly written by the CNA/alleged perpetrator was unsigned and further identified another CNA was present during the time of the alleged incident. The other CNA named in the statement did not provide a written statement. The statement written by the CNA indicated he/she provided care to the resident on 3/23/19 which was earlier than the date provided on the facility's investigation reports. Further review of the facility's complaint investigation revealed the facility reported the incident of alleged abuse on 3/25/19. During an interview on 5/15/19 at approximately 10:35 AM with Registered Nurse (RN) #2 revealed the incident/allegation of abuse occurred on 3/24/19 but he/she does not know the time. RN#2 further confirmed the CNA/alleged perpetrator statement was unsigned and the nurse's statement was not dated. RN #2 confirmed there were no nurses notes to indicate when the resident/family reported the allegations of abuse. RN#2 further stated the new corporation had expressed that more accurate information was needed regarding allegations of abuse. 2020-09-01