cms_SC: 5402

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
5402	MYRTLE BEACH MANOR	425070	9547 HIGHWAY 17, NORTH	MYRTLE BEACH	SC	29572	2015-05-21	431	E	0	1	PCKJ11	Based on observation, interview, and review of the facility's Audit for Expired Medications and Supplies, the facility failed to place open dates on items and failed to ensure expired supplies were not stored with other supplies for resident use in 2 of 3 medications carts and 1 of 2 medication rooms. Additionally, conflicting open dates were noted on medications. The findings included: Observation of the medication cart on the Resident Care Unit on 5/18/15 at 5:44 PM revealed the following: (1) Advair 250/50 with Lot #4ZP7193 opened 4/17/15 written on the container and 4/22/15 written on the bag containing the medication; (1) Polyethylene Glycol 3350 NF Powder for Oral Solution with Lot # 81 with no open date. During an interview at the time of the findings, Licensed Practical Nurse(LPN)#2 stated when nurses open bottles they should date the bottle and should look at the expiration date. Observation on 05-18-15 at approximately 6:00 PM of the 500 Unit Rehab to Home Med Room revealed 1 Silicone(NAME)Dover Foley Catheter, Lot # 58, 12 French (Fr), 5 cubic centimeters (cc), latex free, had expired as evidenced by use by 04-2014 noted on the package. During an interview on 05-18-15 at approximately 6:00 PM with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #3, he/she, verified the Silicone(NAME)Dover Foley Catheter had expired. He/she revealed the supplies are checked weekly by the Supply Manager. During an interview on 05-19-15 at approximately 1:38 PM with the Supply Manager, he/she verified he/she had been responsible for checking the supplies in the 500 Unit Med Room weekly and had recently checked the supplies. During an interview on 05-21-15 at approximately 4:40 PM with Registered Nurse (RN) #1, he/she stated, We do not have a facility policy related to the storage of supplies but a weekly supply audit is done. Review of the facility Audit for Expired Medications and Supplies dated 04-09-15 through 05-11-15 revealed there had not been any supplies observed expired in 500 Unit Rehab to Home Med Room. An observation on 5/18/2015 at approximately 5:53 PM of the 200 Hall medication cart revealed the medication Mintox Antacid/Antigas, 12 fluid ounces, NDC 4, manufactured by Major PH 200-200-20 oral suspension, Substitution for Mylanta had no open date. Further observation on 5/18/2015 at approximately 5:55 PM of the 200 Hall medication cart revealed the medication Milk of Magnesia, 16 fluid ounces, 400 milligrams (mg) per 5 milliliters (ml) with NDC # 6, manufactured by Major had no open date. During interview on 5/18/2015 at approximately 6:00 PM with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #2, he/she verified the Mintox and the Milk of Magnesia did not have an open date. When asked, What is your procedure when opening stock medications and he/she stated, we write the open date on them. During an interview on 5/21/2015 at approximately 2:58 PM with the Assistant Director of Nurses (ADON), when asked about a policy for including the open date on stock medications, and he/she stated, we do not have a policy for writing an open date on stock medications when they are opened.	2018-12-01