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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
5615 WOODRUFF MANOR 425179 1114 EAST GEORGIA ROAD WOODRUFF SC 29388 2015-06-04 441 D 0 1 02VR11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation and interview the staff failed to wash/sanitize hands after removing gloves and proceeded to place unused supplies back into the treatment cart. ( 1 of 1 wound care treatments observed.) Findings included: The facility admitted Resident # 6 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. An observation of wound care was made on 6/3/15 at 2:30 PM by RN#2 (Registered Nurse). The wound care treatment was completed with no issues until the nurse cleaned the soiled supplies off the overbed table, placed them into a plastic bag and removed his/her gloves. The nurse did not wash/ sanitize his/her hands after glove removal before picking up unused supplies, opening room door, opening drawers to treatment cart, and placing supplies into treatment cart. The nurse then went to the soiled utility room, placed bag of soiled supplies into the barrel, and washed his/her hands. The nurse confirmed in an interview at 4 PM on 6/3/15 that she did not wash her hands before leaving the resident's room before putting supplies back into the treatment cart. The facility Dressing Change, Clean Protocol documents Remove gloves with all unused supplies in plastic bag/container. Assist resident to comfortable position. Cleanse hands. 2018-11-01