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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
8952 LAKE CITY SCRANTON HEALTHCARE CENTER 425149 1940 BOYD ROAD SCRANTON SC 29591 2012-05-30 160 B 0 1 7U6B11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the Recertification Survey, based on review of resident funds, interview and review of the facility's policy Resident Trust Accounts, the facility failed to convey funds to the individual or probate jurisdiction administering the resident's estate. The facility conveyed the funds to the facility for Resident A. (1 of 5 resident records reviewed for conveyance of funds.) The findings included: On [DATE], 5 randomly selected residents were reviewed for conveyance of Trust Account Funds. Review of the Resident Trust Fund Account for Resident A revealed that the balance in the resident trust account, $110.00, had been conveyed to the facility. Resident A expired on [DATE] and a check dated [DATE] was issued to the facility. The Business Office Manager confirmed the check had been written to the facility and stated that the resident's representative had authorized the payment to the facility. She verified that the authorization was obtained after the resident's death. She further stated she thought that the resident's representative could authorize the conveyance based on the authorization signed by the daughter at the time of admission which conveyed any refunds, funds and other property held in trust to the daughter, the resident's Power of Attorney. The Business Office Manager also confirmed that she was aware that the Power of Attorney expired with the resident's death. Review of the facility's policy, Resident Trust Accounts, revealed the following statement: Upon a resident's death, the funds along with a financial accounting, must be promptly delivered to the individual administering the resident's estate or as designated by the state regulations. Check must be made out to estate of. 2015-09-01