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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
6441 MARION NURSING CENTER, INC. 425015 2770 SOUTH HIGHWAY 501 MARION SC 29571 2013-08-21 152 D 0 1 6G2N11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the recertification, complaint and extended survey, based on record review and interviews the facility failed to provide evidence that two physicians had deemed Resident #16 (1 of 16 residents reviewed for healthcare decision making capability) incompetent to make his/her own healthcare decisions. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #16 on 7/31/13 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. During the record review the resident was documented as being alert and oriented to person, place and time. It was noted that Resident #16's sister had signed the Designated Decision Maker For A Person Unable to Consent form on the resident's chart. Upon further review of the record, no documentation from a physician could be found deeming Resident #16 incompetent to make his/her own healthcare choices. An interview on 8/7/13 at 3:30 pm with the Social Services Director (SSD) stated, I do not have the Power of Attorney papers if they are not on the chart. The SSD also stated that s/he did not have the two physician signature sheet deeming Resident #16 incompetent. S/he stated that her sister became Resident #16's RP (responsible party) when s/he was diagnosed with [REDACTED]. 2018-02-01