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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
959 PRUITTHEALTH- BAMBERG 425104 439 NORTH STREET BAMBERG SC 29003 2017-05-05 157 D 0 1 P4RY11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review, interview, and review of the facility's Change in Condition Policy, the facility failed to notify the family of significant changes in the resident's condition requiring potential physician intervention for one of one sampled resident reviewed for notification. The family of Resident #22 was not notified of falls that occurred on 3/22/17 and 4/30/17. The findings included: The facility admitted Resident #22 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Review of Nurse's Notes and Incident Reports on 05/04/2017 at 2:34 PM revealed that Resident #22 fell in the hallway on 3/22/17. On 4/30/17, s/he was found sitting on the floor after attempting to go to the bathroom unassisted. There was no evidence located that the family was notified of the falls. During an interview on 05/05/2017 2:36 PM, the Director of Nursing (DON) reviewed the medical record and incident reports and verified there was no evidence that the family had been notified. On 5/5/17 at 3:44 PM, the DON stated, All I have is what's on the incident report. Review of the facility's Change in Condition Policy revealed no reference to family notification. 2020-09-01