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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
10 AVANTARA MILBANK 435009 1103 SOUTH SECOND STREET MILBANK SD 57252 2018-10-03 584 D 0 1 LZ7K11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation and interview, the provider failed to ensure the heater units that circulated hot water in five of eight resident rooms (401, 403, 405, 406, and 408) on one of five resident halls (400) had missing front heat shields. Findings include: 1. Observation during the survey on 10/1/18 from 4: 00 p.m. through 4:30 p.m., 10/2/18 from 1:00 p.m. through 3:00 p.m., and 10/3/18 at 4:00 p.m. revealed: *Resident rooms 401, 403, 405, 406, and 408 heater units had damage to them including: -The front heat shields had exposed sharp heating fins. -The front heat shields were not attached and had exposed sharp connectors. -Half of the front heat shield was missing from room [ROOM NUMBER]'s heater and his comforter had fallen onto the heating fins. Interview on 10/3/18 at 6:00 p.m. with the administrator revealed she was not aware of the heater units disrepair. She agreed those units could have caused injury to residents. She was not aware of any policy or preventative maintenance schedule that was completed for each room. She had just initiated a system for reporting items to be fixed to maintenance. 2020-09-01