cms_SD: 3681

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
3681	BOWDLE NURSING HOME	435107	8001 W 5TH STREET POST OFFICE BOX 556	BOWDLE	SD	57428	2013-02-14	520	D	0	1	05H511	Based on record review, policy review, and interview, the provider failed to ensure: Quarterly quality assurance (QA) meetings were held. The medical director had been present at least quarterly for the QA meetings. Findings include: 1. Review of the provider's 2/15/12 through 10/31/12 QA meeting minutes revealed the medical director had not attended the 8/1/12 quarterly QA meeting. 2. Review of the provider's QA meeting minutes revealed the last QA meeting had been held on 10/31/12. The QA review had been for 7/1/12 through 9/30/12. There had been no QA meetings since then. 3. Interview on 2/14/13 at 9:00 a.m. with the administrator revealed: She was not aware the medical director had not attended all of the QA meetings. She had not attended the 8/1/12 QA meeting. She stated the next QA meeting was scheduled for 2/27/13. The next QA meeting had been scheduled for that time due to conflicts in scheduling. Review of the provider's undated quality assurance plan revealed the QA committee would have been composed of the administration, medical staff, QA coordinator, director of nursing, and other department heads.	2016-10-01