cms_SC: 3429

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
3429 C M TUCKER NURSING CARE CENTER / RODDEY 425360 2200 HARDEN STREET COLUMBIA SC 29203 2018-10-04 623 D 1 1 2F3711 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on interview and record review the facility failed to provide written notification of transfer/discharge for 1 of 2 residents reviewed for hospitalization . Resident # 39 was discharged to the hospital on [DATE] but the facility did not provide written notification to resident representative or send a copy of notification to the ombudsman. The findings included: Resident # 39 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Review of nursing notes on 10/2/18 at approximately 3:24 PM revealed the resident went out to the hospital on [DATE] to rule out aspiration pneumonia. No documentation that written notification was provided to the family was found in the resident's chart. Review of notification to ombudsman on 10/2/18 at approximately 4:10 PM revealed the ombudsman did not receive written notification of Resident # 39 transfer until 9/13/18. Interview with administrator on 10/2/18 at approximately 4:18 PM confirmed the ombudsman did not receive written notification until 9/13/18. Review of policy for notification of transfers to ombudsman and responsible party on 10/3/18 at approximately 9:19 AM revealed the following: When a resident is temporarily transferred on an emergency basis to an acute care facility, notice of the transfer may be provided to the resident and resident representative as soon as practicable Copies of notices for emergency transfers must also still be sent to the ombudsman, but they may be sent when practicable, such as in a list of residents on a monthly basis. 2020-09-01