cms_SC: 9340
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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PRUITTHEALTH BAMBERG |
425104 |
439 NORTH STREET |
BAMBERG |
SC |
29003 |
2011-06-02 |
441 |
E |
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UJW911 |
On the days of the survey, based on observation, interviews, review of laundry temperature logs, and review of the facility policy entitled "Temperature Control", the facility failed to implement procedures to ensure that personal laundry was being hygienically cleansed. The findings included: During observation of the laundry process on 6-1-11 at 9:30 AM, the Housekeeping/Laundry Supervisor and Laundry Aide stated that the personal laundry was being sanitized by maintenance of the hot water temperatures over 160 degrees. The bleach dispenser had a red light flashing on it, which the Aide indicated meant "It's empty." Both staff noted that bleach was not used. The Supervisor stated that she thought there was bleach in the detergent, (Solid Super Star) but review of the manufacturer's information did not support this. The Supervisor stated that water temperatures were taken every morning and were recorded consistently at greater than 160. She provided logs which corroborated this. However, upon direct observation, both washers were in use and set on "warm" instead of "hot". The surveyor asked the Laundry Aide to check the water temperature entering one of the washers with the facility's routinely-used digital thermometer. The temperature of the water was 80.2 degrees. During an interview on 6-1-11 at approximately 10 AM, after the Administrator was advised of the washer settings, he confirmed that the water temperatures in the washers should have been maintained at over 160 degrees. He provided for review the facility policy which stated: "Hot water provided for washing linen and clothing shall not be less than one-hundred and sixty (160) degrees Fahrenheit..." |
2015-05-01 |