cms_SC: 8287

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
8287 MARTHA FRANKS BAPTIST RETIREMENT CENTER 425334 ONE MARTHA FRANKS DRIVE LAURENS SC 29360 2012-02-08 371 F 0 1 6G5L11 On the days of the survey, based on observations and interview, the facility failed to store, prepare, distribute and serve food under sanitary conditions. The facility freezer contained unlabeled/undated food. Kitchen equipment was observed soiled with dried food splatters or contained food debris, food items were not labelled nor dated, stored foods were improperly wrapped, The findings included: On 2/7/2012 at 9:20 AM, during tour of the facility's kitchen with the Dietary Manager, the Tilt Grill and the Deep Fryer contained a large amount of food debris and the oil was a dark color. A table top stand mixer had dried food splatters. The can opener attached to a counter had a black substance around the base where it was attached to the counter and in the area where the opening tip rested on the counter. The walk-in freezer had a large bag of breaded chicken strips which were taken out of the original box and had not been dated or labeled. The freezer also contained a frozen chicken which had been wrapped in aluminum foil and was partially exposed with no date. The Dietary Manager stated that the Tilt Grill and Deep Fryer were to be cleaned on the day of the tour. She removed the partially wrapped chicken from the freezer. As she removed the chicken, she stated they know they are not supposed to do that. On 2/8/2012 at 9:10 AM, during an additional tour with the Dietary Manager, the Deep Fryer was observed to contain a large amount of food debris and dark colored oil. The Tilt Grill had been cleaned. The mixer also continued to have dried splatters. The Dietary Manager stated that the Deep Fryer had been cleaned on 2/7/12 but had been used after the cleaning A cleaning schedule was requested but not provided prior to exiting the facility. 2016-06-01