cms_SC: 6590

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
6590	FLORENCE REHAB & NURSING CENTER	425163	133 WEST CLARKE ROAD	FLORENCE	SC	29501	2014-06-19	431	E	0	1	T4HW11	On the days of the survey, based on observations, interview, and review of the facility policy Storage of medications, the facility failed to follow a procedure to ensure that expired medications were removed from medication storage in 1 of 3 medication carts. The findings included: On 6/16/14 at 11:20 AM, an observation of the Central Hall medication cart with LPN #1 revealed (12) single dose packaged tablets of Acetaminophen 500 milligram (mg) (Lot Number # ). All tablets had an expiration date of 12/18/13. Following the observation LPN #1 and the Director of Nursing (DON) verified the (12) tablets of Acetaminophen were expired and indicated that the medication should have been removed from the cart. Review of the facility policy entitled Storage of Medications, section (M) of Procedures states Outdated, contaminated, or deteriorated medications and those in containers that are cracked, soiled, or without secure closures are immediately removed from stock, disposed of according to procedures for medication disposal and reordered from the pharmacy, if a current order exists.	2017-12-01