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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
8197 HEARTLAND OF COLUMBIA REHAB AND NURSING CENTER 425008 2601 FOREST DRIVE COLUMBIA SC 29204 2013-02-21 371 E 0 1 CSJ811 On days of the survey, based on observation, interviews and review of facility policy, the facility failed to ensure food was prepared, distributed and served under sanitary conditions, kitchen staff were not wearing proper hair restraints and food was not served at the correct temperature. The findings included: On all days of the survey Food Service Worker #1 did not use a beard protector. Food Service Worker #2 was observed wearing a ball cap but hair was touching below the collar and not restrained. Interviews on 2/9/13 at approximately 11:00 AM and again on 2/21/13 at approximately 8:39 AM with the Operations Manager, verified no proper hair restraints were used. Steam table temperatures of the lunch meal on 2/20/13 at approximately 12:10 PM by Food Service Worker #1 revealed Macaroni Salad , the menu alternate, was at 51 degrees Fahrenheit. An interview with Food Service Worker #1 verified that the Macaroni Salad, the menu alternate, was not 41 degrees Fahrenheit. He/she stated the Macaroni Salad was just put in the refrigerator. 2016-06-01