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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
2408 MCCOY MEMORIAL NURSING CENTER 425174 207 CHAPPELL DRIVE BISHOPVILLE SC 29010 2017-10-11 281 E 0 1 YIRJ11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and interview the facility failed to provide services that met professional standards. Resident #133, 1 of 3 residents reviewed for accuracy of medication administration, had a medication discontinued but it continued to be signed off as given by three different nurses for 9 days after it was discontinued. The findings included: Resident #133 was admitted with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Record review of the (MONTH) physician's orders [REDACTED]. Further review of the Physician's Telephone Orders revealed an order on 9/25/17 that stated, D/C (discontinue) [MEDICATION NAME]). Record review of the Consultant Pharmacist Drug Regimen Review on 10/10/17 at 12:45pm revealed an entry on 10/4/17 that stated, [MEDICATION NAME] d/cd (discontinue). Further review of the 9/25/17 physician progress notes [REDACTED]. Review of the Care Plan contained a hand written entry that stated, D/cd (Discontinue) 9/25/17). Record review of the (MONTH) (YEAR) MAR indicated [REDACTED]. During an interview on 10/10/17 at 2:45pm, LPN #1 verified the [MEDICATION NAME] was discontinued on 9/25/17 but was on the current MAR. At 2:58pm, LPN #1 stated s/he spoke with the pharmacy, and the medication has not been sent since it was discontinued. S/he stated it was initialed as administered but the resident did not receive the medication because the medication was not sent by the pharmacy. During an interview on 10/10/17, at 4:27pm, the Director of Nursing verified that three different nurses documented the medication as given, and s/he will provide education and counsel the nurses. S/he provided documentation from the pharmacy that the medication had not been sent for the nurses to administer. 2020-09-01