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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
8853 PRUITTHEALTH-BLYTHEWOOD 425400 1075 HEATHER GREEN DRIVE COLUMBIA SC 29229 2012-06-14 151 E 0 1 GQ7W11 On the days of the Recertification, Complaint and Extended Survey, based on the group and staff interviews, the facility failed to provide the opportunity to vote for 2 of 6 residents from the group interview who stated that they would have voted if a way had been provided by the facility. (Resident A & B) The findings included: During the group interview on 6-12-12 at approximately 11:15 AM, this surveyor asked if anyone had been given the opportunity to vote. The group stated that no staff at the facility had mentioned it. Resident B stated that he always voted, even in the primaries, but that no one had told him that he could vote while in the nursing home. Resident A stated that her husband usually took her to vote, but that he was not able to take her and she was not aware that the facility could assist her in obtaining an absentee ballot. On 6-13-12 at approximately 1:20 PM, the Activity Director stated that he had not discussed voting with the residents during the most recent Resident Council Meetings. He further stated that he was aware of the primary being held, but that he was new to the area and didn't think about offering the opportunity to vote to the residents. 2015-12-01