cms_SC: 9859

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
9859 THE COTTAGES AT BRUSHY CREEK 425004 101 COTTAGE CREEK CIRCLE GREER SC 29650 2011-05-18 322 D 0 1 B6NE11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the survey, based on observation and review of the facility policy entitled "Standard Infection Precautions", the facility failed to provide Resident #10 with a bolus feeding appropriate to prevent contamination of feeding in 1 of 2 residents observed for tube feeding flushes. The findings included: Resident #10 was admitted on [DATE] with the [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. On 5/17/11 at 12:10 PM, a tube feeding and tube feeding flush was conducted by LPN #5. The LPN dropped the syringe onto the floor. She picked up the syringe with her gloved hand and went into the bathroom to rinse the syringe in the sink. The LPN returned to the resident to continue with placing formula into the syringe. The LPN did not change her gloves nor wash her hands before returning to continue with the tube feeding flush. Per review of the facility policy entitled " Standard Infection Precautions" dated 20.06.01, which stated... "change gloves between tasks and procedures on the same elder and after contact with material that may contain a high concentration of microorganisms. Remove gloves promptly after use, before touching non-contaminated items and environmental surfaces, and before caring for another elder. Clean hands each time gloves are removed". 2014-10-01