cms_SC: 95

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
95 ELLEN SAGAR NURSING CENTER 425012 1817 JONESVILLE HIGHWAY UNION SC 29379 2017-05-11 332 E 1 1 SD8911 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on observation and interview the facility failed to ensure the medication error rate was less than 5%. The facility had 3 errors of 27 opportunities resulting in a medication error rate of 11.11%. The findings included: On 05/10/2017 at 9:01 AM, LPN #1 was observed during the medication pass. LPN #1 administered 24 units of [MEDICATION NAME] [MED] to Resident #5. Observation revealed the vial of [MED] was opened on 04/11/2017. During an interview on 05/10/2017 at 2:04 PM, LPN #1 confirmed the medication should have been discarded 28 days after opening, on 5/8/17. The LPN also confirmed the resident received 5 doses of [MEDICATION NAME] after day 28. During the medication pass observation of LPN #4 on 05/11/2017 at 9:28 AM, the LPN administered [MEDICATION NAME] that was not completely dissolved via the PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube which clogged the tube. While attempting to de-clog the tube, the LPN poured the medication back into the medicine cup but several large pieces of the medication remained in the tube. Using a clean washcloth, LPN #4 removed pieces of the tablet from the connector and discarded them. In addition, while administering the [MED], the connection between the syringe and the tube came loose and a portion of the medication flowed out of the syringe onto the towel. The LPN confirmed the resident did not receive the full dose of the 2 medications. 2020-09-01