cms_WV: 11120

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
11120	UNITED TRANSITIONAL CARE CENTER	515107	327 MEDICAL PARK DRIVE	BRIDGEPORT	WV	26330	2009-05-08	323	E	0	1	V73M11	Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure the environment was as free of accident hazards as possible. During the medication pass observation, one (1) of four (4) nurses observed failed to ensure filled syringes and medications were locked in the medication cart when the cart was left unattended and out of the nurse's line of sight. Facility census: 27. Findings include: a) During the medication pass on 05/06/09 at 9:05 a.m., when approaching the medication cart on the 260 hall, observation found the cart was unattended in the hall. Further observation found two (2) 10 cc syringes containing a clear liquid and two (2) 50 cc bags which contained IV (intravenous) medications on top of the cart. Observation of the 260 hall found the medication nurse (Employee #29) was in a resident's room and not within sight of the medication cart. During an interview on 05/06/09 at 10:30 a.m., the director of nursing confirmed that the practice of leaving filled syringes and medications unattended on top of a medication cart presented an accident hazard and the medications should have been locked in the cart. .	2014-08-01