cms_SC: 9659

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
9659 PRUITTHEALTH-BLYTHEWOOD 425400 1075 HEATHER GREEN DRIVE COLUMBIA SC 29229 2011-10-13 153 D 1 0 BFJD11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the complaint inspection, based on record review and interview, the facility failed to provide requested medical records within 24 hours for 1 of 1 residents who requested their medical record. Resident #1 did not receive requested medical records in a timely manner. The findings included: The facility admitted resident #1 with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. During record review on 10/11/2011, the resident was noted to have a BIMS (Brief Interview for Mental Status), score of 11 on her quarterly MDS (Minimum Data Set) of 9/24/2011. Her initial MDS of 7/13/201 coded her as 13. Review of her Social Service notes of 9/6/2011 revealed a note, "Family request pt (patient) info from chart. MSW (masters prepared social worker) fax request to Legal Services...." In an interview on 10/12/2011 at 12:45 PM, the resident's family member stated she received the requested information until, "last week". On 10/12/2011 the person responsible for medical records gave a statement regarding the requested medical records of resident #1. The resident's family requested the information on September 6, 2011. The resident signed to allow the release of the medical record on September 9, 2011. There was a meeting with the family member and the therapist. The facility thought the family had their questions answered and no longer needed the records. On September 29, 2011 the family member called and asked for the records. The facility had the records available on September 29, 2011. The family member picked up the records on October 3, 2011. The medical records should have been available with in 24 hours after the resident signed for the release of information. 2015-02-01