cms_SC: 3670

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
3670 OPUS POST ACUTE REHABILITATION 425379 300 AGAPE DRIVE WEST COLUMBIA SC 29169 2017-06-28 333 D 1 0 0BFI11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure residents were free of any significant medication errors. Resident #5 was administered medication when there was a physician's orders [REDACTED]. The findings included: Review of Resident #5's Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. The medication was signed as administered on 5/28/17 at 1700, the resident was documented with a pulse of 55 on the Medication Administration Record. Review of the Nurses' Notes dated 5/28/17 at 6:36 PM revealed Resident #5's daughter called the nurses' station stating that the resident needed to be transferred out to the emergency department immediately for difficulty breathing. The nurse asked the resident if s/he would like to go to the emergency room like his/her daughter wanted. Resident #5 said no, I'm okay, just needed to sit up. The nurse called the physician and informed him/her of the situation and s/he said it is okay to send the resident out on the basis that the family wanted him/her to go. Review of the resident's Transfer Form dated 5/28/17 revealed the resident was transferred to the hospital related to respiratory distress. In an interview with the surveyor on 6/27/17 at approximately 3:20 PM, the Director of Nursing stated the resident's [MED] should have been held and the physician notified on 5/28/17 when his/her pulse was 55. There was no documentation that the resident's physician was notified per the order. 2020-09-01