cms_VT: 8

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
8	VERNON GREEN NURSING HOME	475008	61 GREENWAY DRIVE	VERNON	VT	5354	2019-09-18	812	E	0	1	XBZR11	Based on observation, staff interview and record review the facility failed to ensure that food was stored in accordance with professional standards for food service safety. Findings include: 1. Per review of the facility's temperature logs for the refrigerators and freezers, it was noted that on the B-Wing unit the supplement refrigerator was consistently registering temperatures above 40 degrees from (MONTH) 2019 through (MONTH) 2019. On 9/17/19 at 4:15 PM, the surveyor accompanied the Food Service Director on a tour to the B-wing unit and observed that the refrigerator temperature was not checked on 9/1, 9/2, 9/3, 9/4, 9/16, and 9/17/19; and that when the temperature had been checked in (MONTH) of 2019, it was over 40 degrees. The refrigerator contained soda, juice, and Boost supplements. It also had an opened container of thickened dairy beverage. The Food Service Director confirmed that the thickened dairy beverage should have been kept at a temperature of 40 degrees or less; and that the refrigerator had been out of temperature range for over five months. S/he stated that s/he was unsure who was responsible for acting upon the elevated temperatures. Per interview on 4/17/19 at 4:30 PM with the Director of Nursing (DNS), s/he stated that it was the night nurse's responsibility to check the refrigerator temperature and that s/he was not aware that the refrigerator's temperature had been out range for all of these months.	2020-09-01