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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
8260 HEARTLAND HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CARE CENTER-HA 425289 1800 EAGLE LANDING BLVD HANAHAN SC 29406 2016-03-02 164 D 0 1 3A0811 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, interview and review of the facility policy titled, Dressing Change: Nonsterile (Clean) and Sterile (Aseptic), the facility failed to provide privacy during a pressure ulcer treatment for 1 of 2 residents reviewed for pressure ulcers and 1 of 1 pressure ulcer treatments observed. Resident #164. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #164 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. An observation on 3/2/2016 at approximately 9:44 AM during a pressure ulcer treatment for [REDACTED].#164's bed. A staff member knocked on the door, and came over to the resident's bedside while the dressings were being changed on his/her coccyx. During an interview on 3/2/2016 at approximately 9:44 AM with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #1 he/she confirmed that the privacy curtain was not pulled around Resident #164's bed during a dressing change to a pressure ulcer. LPN #1 stated, the privacy curtain should have been pulled and I should have asked the staff member to wait until the dressing was changed and the resident was covered. Review on 3/2/2016 at approximately 12:09 PM of the facility policy titled, Dressing Change: Nonsterile (Clean) and Sterile (Aseptic), revealed under, Procedure:, number 4. states, Introduce self, explain procedure and provide privacy. 2016-06-01