cms_TN: 14166

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
14166 LAKESHORE HEARTLAND 44A114 3025 FERNBROOK LANE NASHVILLE TN 37214 2010-06-23 431 D     9JGX11 Based on observation, review of facility policy, and interview, the facility failed to ensure only licensed personnel had access to the medication room. The findings included: Observation on June 23, 2010, at 9:35 a.m., of the third floor medication room revealed Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #1 opened the medication room door and allowed the central supply clerk to enter the medication room unsupervised. Continued observation revealed LPN #1 walked down the hallway and out of visual supervision of the medication room. Continued observation revealed the central supply clerk was in the medication room unsupervised for ten minutes. Interview on June 23, 2010, at 9:45 a.m., with the central supply clerk revealed "they let me in when I stock the medication room and no one stays with me." Review of the facility's Storage of Medications policy revealed "...Only persons authorized to prepare and administer medications shall have access to the medication room, including any keys..." Interview on June 23, 2010, at 10:15 a.m., in the conference room with the Director of Nursing confirmed unlicensed personnel must be supervised when in the medication room. 2014-04-01