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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
97	ELLEN SAGAR NURSING CENTER	425012	1817 JONESVILLE HIGHWAY	UNION	SC	29379	2017-05-11	371	F	1	1	SD8911	> Based on observation and interview, the facility failed to properly store and label food items in both the reach-in and walk-in coolers. In addition, the cook failed to have foods at the appropriate temperature before serving. The findings included: During initial tour of the kitchen on 5/8/2017 at approximately 3:30 pm, observation of the walk-in cooler revealed 3 large bags of expired salad, stored in a box dated use by 4/30/2017. There was also an additional label on the box dated use by 5/3/2017. The tour also revealed 2 bags of unlabeled and undated shredded cheese in the walk- in cooler. At approximately 4:00 pm on 5/8/17, tour of the reach-in cooler revealed 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a use by date of 5/3/17 and 1 pimento cheese sandwich with a use by date of 5/6/17. Additional tour of the kitchen showed the ice scoop to have been left inside of the ice machine. Review of the facility's policy on Food Storage stated, Scoops are not to be stored in food or ice containers, but are kept covered in a protected area near the containers. An interview with the Certified Dietary Manager on 5/8/17 at approximately 4:15 pm revealed there were expired and unlabeled items in both the walk-in and reach-in coolers. The facility also failed to properly prepare food items to be served at proper temperatures. During an observation of the temping of the lunch tray line on 5/10/17 at approximately 10:56 am, it was revealed the potato salad to be served was not a proper temperature. The cook who took the temperatures found the first bowl of potato salad to be at 50 degrees Fahrenheit. A second bowl was then obtained and found to be at [AGE] degrees Fahrenheit. The temperatures of the fried chicken wings were shown to be at 120 degrees Fahrenheit. During an interview on 5/10/17 at 11:15 am, the cook stated that s/he allows reheated items to reach a temperature of 1[AGE] degrees Fahrenheit. Review of the facility's policy on Reheated Foods, states All parts of the food must reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit with a minimum holding time at the specified temperature for 15 seconds and a maximum time of 2 hours. The policy also states cold food items must maintain a temperature of 41 degrees Fahrenheit and below for safe consuming.	2020-09-01