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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
8593 MULLINS NURSING CENTER 425312 518 S MAIN STREET MULLINS SC 29574 2011-11-22 371 F 0 1 UMUL11 On the days of the survey, through observation, interview and record review the facility failed to ensure that foods were prepared and served under sanitary conditions for 1 of 1 lunch meals observed being prepared by kitchen staff who were unable to ascertain the validity of food temperatures because staff were unable to demonstrate how to calibrate the thermometer prior to monitoring food temperatures on the tray line. The findings included: Observation on 11-21-11 at approximately 10:50 AM revealed the kitchen supervisor was preparing to temp the trayline. This writer asked the kitchen supervisor to calibrate the thermometer. The kitchen supervisor stated the thermometer had to be calibrated to 32 degrees. Continued observations revealed she was unable to calibrate the thermometer she was using. A stem thermometer was then used but the tool was missing that is used to calibrate it to 32 degrees Fahrenheit. A third thermometer was then used but again the supervisor was unable to calibrate it. An interview with the kitchen supervisor revealed that she had never calibrated a thermometer before. An interview with the Dietary Manager revealed that he also could not calibrate a thermometer. 2016-02-01