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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
6779 PEACHTREE CENTRE 425095 1434 N LIMESTONE ST GAFFNEY SC 29340 2013-12-19 152 D 0 1 G10C11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the Recertification and Complaint Survey, based on record review, interviews, and review of the South Carolina Code of Laws (Unannotated), the facility failed to obtain 2 physicians' signatures declaring Resident #4 lacked capacity to make his/her own healthcare decisions prior to allowing the resident's responsible party to make the decision that the resident would have a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) Code Status. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #4 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. On 12/17/13 at 12:43 PM, record review revealed an Advance Directive signed by the resident's daughter. Further review revealed no evidence the resident lacked the capacity to make his/her own healthcare decisions. During an interview on 12/18/13 at 9:28 AM, the Social Services Assistant (SSA) stated that the doctor had requested a STAT (as soon as possible) DNR and that the physician had already written the DNR order. The SSA further stated that a discussion with the resident was attempted 3 times but the resident became very upset so the discussions were terminated. The SSA also stated that the resident's daughter stated that Resident #4 was cognitively clear when at home. The SSA confirmed that because of the daughter's description of the resident's cognitive status, s/he did not attempt to obtain a statement signed by 2 physicians as required. Review of the South Carolina Code of Laws (Unannotated), Chapter 66, Adult Health Care Consent Act, Section 44-66-20 (6) revealed the following .A patients inability to consent must be certified by two licensed physicians, each of whom has examined the patient . 2017-09-01