cms_SC: 9905

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
9905 THE RETREAT AT BRIGHTWATER 425395 171 BRIGHTWATER DRIVE MYRTLE BEACH SC 29579 2011-04-06 152 D 0 1 TY5Z11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** On the days of the survey, based on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure that for 2 of 6 sampled Residents (Residents #2 and #6) reviewed for Advanced Directive status, that the rights of the Residents were exercised by the person appointed under State law to act on the resident's behalf. Neither resident had been deemed to lack capacity to make health care decisions which could enable others to make decisions on their behalf. The findings included: Resident #2, was admitted on [DATE] with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Record review on 4/5/11 at approximately 10:05am revealed a "Do Not Resuscitate Order" (DNR) dated 4/23/10 was signed by the resident's daughter (Power of Attorney). Further review of the record did not reveal evidence that two physician's declared the resident lacked the capacity to make health care decisions. Interview on 4/5/11 at approximately 2:15pm with Registered Nurse #1, after review of the record, confirmed that there was no documentation by two physicians declaring the resident incapable of making health care decisions. Resident #6 was re-admitted on [DATE] with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Record review on 4/6/11 at approximately 10:30am revealed a "Do Not Resuscitate Order" dated 5/24/10 was signed by the resident's daughter. Further review of the record did not reveal documentation by two physicians' declaring the resident lacked the capacity to make health care decisions. Interview on 4/6/11 at approximately 3:10pm with the Director of Nursing confirmed that there was no documentation declaring the resident incapable of making health care decisions. 2014-10-01