cms_SC: 6440

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
6440 MARION NURSING CENTER, INC. 425015 2770 SOUTH HIGHWAY 501 MARION SC 29571 2012-08-01 467 E 0 1 00J311 On the days of the survey, based on observations, interviews, and record review, the facility failed to provide adequate outside ventilation for 1 of 4 shower rooms and 8 sampled resident restrooms. The findings included: On 7/30/12 and 7/31/12, observations of the shower room located on Unit 1, Front Hall, revealed the room was humid and the exhaust fan did not work. On 7/31/12, Maintenance staff #1 confirmed the exhaust fan in the shower room was not functioning. On 8/1/12, Maintenance staff #1 and LPN(Licensed Practical Nurse)#1 observed rooms 26 and 27 with the surveyor. The exhaust fan in each resident restroom was not working which was confirmed by the staff. LPN #1 stated she did not think the exhaust fans had worked since she had been employed with the facility. The restroom for Room 26 was a shared bathroom. Additionally, the exhaust fans did not function in the following sampled resident restrooms: Room 2, 9, 20, 33, 35, and 49. Each of these restrooms were shared with another room with residents. Further interview on 8/1/12 with LPN #1 revealed that during monthly checks by Maintenance, the fans were to be checked for proper functioning and that that had not been done. . 2018-02-01