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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
37	CHERAW HEALTHCARE	425005	400 MOFFAT ROAD	CHERAW	SC	29520	2017-07-26	431	D	0	1	LLSR11	Based on observations, record reviews and interviews the facility failed to assure that sterile medications were properly stored in 1 of 4 medication carts and 1 of 2 treatment carts and that medications were securely stored on 1 of 4 medication carts. The findings include: On 7/23/17 at approximately 11:39 AM the medication cart # 2 on the North Unit was observed to be unattended and unlocked for approximately 6 minutes and one wandering resident in a wheelchair was touching and pulling on the cart. LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) # 1 was informed of the observations on 7/23/17 at approximately 11:46 AM and he/she verified that the cart was had been left unlocked, unattended and that a wandering resident was in the area. On 7/23/17 at approximately 11:49 AM inspection of the top right hand drawer of medication cart # 2 on the North Unit revealed one opened bottle of Normal Saline USP (United States Pharmacopoeia) 100 ml (milliliter) by McKesson Lot # 20 which had been dated by the facility as opened on 7/21/17. The manufacturers label stated Single Patient Use, Sterile, 0.9% (percent) Sodium Chloride and contained about 80 ml. This finding was verified by LPN # 1 on 7/23/17 at approximately 11:53 AM. An observation on 7/25/2017 at approximately 10:50 AM, during wound care, revealed a 100 mg (milligram) bottle of Sterile Normal Saline-Single Use manufactured by McKesson with Lot # 10 with expiration date 5/11/2019 was opened and left on 1 of 2 treatment carts with other medications for resident use. After opened, the Sterile Normal Saline is no longer sterile. During an interview on 7/25/2017 at approximately 10:55 AM the Assistant Director of Nursing verified the findings and removed the bottle of Normal Saline from the treatment cart.	2020-09-01