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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
28 BRUSHY CREEK POST ACUTE 425004 101 COTTAGE CREEK CIRCLE GREER SC 29650 2016-12-01 329 D 0 1 OHU211 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure that 1 of 1 sampled resident reviewed for Hospice had documented clinical reason for medication administration and/or were monitored for effectiveness of medication for Resident #265. Resident #265 was prescribed medication for which there was no documented evidence of clinical need. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #265 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Record review on 11/30/2016 at 9:30 AM revealed physician's orders [REDACTED]. 4 hours , [MEDICATION NAME] 0.5 mg tablet one tablet every 6 hours as needed , and Vitamin D3 1,000 units tablet 2 tablets daily . Continued review revealed no clinical indication for Vitamin D3 to treat the Resident's assessed condition. There were no laboratory reports to substantiate Vitamin D3 deficiencies or reason for continued use. No documented evaluation of the underlying cause of behaviors prior to the start of psychiatric medications. No pain measurement tool documented prior to [MEDICATION NAME] administration and after administration to measure effectiveness. No documentation of behaviors prior to administrating [MEDICATION NAME] and [MEDICATION NAME]. Review of the Medication Administration Records (MARs) revealed that from 09/01/2016 through 11/27/2016 Resident #265 received 18 doses of as needed [MEDICATION NAME] 0.5mg tab, 7 doses of as needed [MEDICATION NAME] 5mg/ml 0.5 ml, and 100 doses of as needed [MEDICATION NAME] 50 mg tab. Review of Progress Notes and MARs revealed that no reason for administration and/or effectiveness of PRN (as needed) medication were documented. Continued review revealed no evidence of evaluation of underlying cause of behaviors prior to starting routine psychiatric medications. During an interview on 11/30/2016 at 9:40 AM with the Director of Nursing (DON) information was requested to provide clinical reasons for the use of Vitamin D3. The DON stated they had reviewed the medical records and were unable to find any evidence of deficiency. She/He reviewed the record and was unable to provide additional information. 2020-09-01