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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
8240 INMAN HEALTHCARE 425122 51 N MAIN ST INMAN SC 29349 2012-11-07 441 D 0 1 YTDP11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the survey, based on an observation of a wound treatment and interview, the nurse did not provide a safe, sanitary environment to prevent the development and transmission of disease or infection by not washing and or sanitizing his/her hands between changing soiled gloves and applying clean gloves. Resident # 2's brief also touched the clean wound bed. ( 1 of 1 sampled residents observed for wound care.) The findings included: The facility admitted Resident # 2 on 5/21/10 with a [DIAGNOSES REDACTED].# 1 (Licensed Practical Nurse) was observed to change his/her gloves eight times during 2 wound treatments without washing or sanitizing his/her hands between removing soiled gloves and applying clean gloves. The resident's brief also touched the clean wound bed during the treatment. After the treatment was completed, the LPN was asked if this was her normal procedure for changing gloves during wound care. She said ,No. I usually wash my hands or use hand sanitizer each time I change my gloves. I was nervous today. He/she also stated that the brief should have been more secure so as not to touch the wound. 2016-06-01