cms_SC: 618

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
618 C M TUCKER JR NURSING CARE 425074 2200 HARDEN STREET COLUMBIA SC 29203 2017-06-01 155 D 0 1 YBVO11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to have 2 physicians evaluate the decisional capacity of Resident #99, 1 of 11 residents reviewed for Advance Directives. Resident #99 was made DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) Status after being evaluated by 1 physician who determined that the resident was not capable of making their own healthcare decisions. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #99 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Record review of the Election of Code Status and Medical Intervention form on 5/31/2017 at 11:25 AM, revealed that DNR status was selected for the resident. The form was signed by a family member and Physician #1 on 5/17/2017. Review of a Certification Of Inability To Consent form on 5/31/2017 at 11:25 AM, revealed that Resident #99 was examined by Physician #1 on 5/18/2017. Physician #1 certified that resident #99 was unable to make healthcare decisions due to his/her cognitive status. There was an area on the form to be completed by a 2nd physician to indicate whether they concurred or did not concur with the previous physician's findings. This was not completed by a 2nd physician. During an interview with the Social Worker on 6/1/2017 at 10:22 AM, the Social Worker confirmed that Resident #99 had been made DNR status and was not evaluated by 2 physicians for decisional capacity. In addition, the Social Worker stated he/she was not aware that 2 physicians were required to determine decisional capacity for a resident when family members select Code status for a resident. 2020-09-01