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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
11338 HILLTOP CENTER 515061 PO BOX 125 HILLTOP WV 25855 2010-12-09 225 D     9K0R11 . Based on review of abuse / neglect policies, review of employees' personnel files, and staff interview, the facility failed make reasonable efforts to uncover information about any past criminal prosecutions to assure that individuals are not employed who have been potentially found guilty of abusing, neglecting, or mistreating residents by a court of law for one (1) of seven (7) employee personnel records reviewed. Facility census: 115. Findings include: a) The facility was entered at 12:15 p.m. on 12/09/10, to conduct an unannounced complaint investigation alleging that the facility did not perform necessary screening for potential employees to rule out criminal convictions that would make them unfit for service in a nursing facility. Review of the facility's policy addressing the prevention of resident abuse / neglect "1.0-WV Abuse Prohibition" (revised 11/01/09) found the following under the section entitled "Process": "2. The Center will screen potential employees for a history of abuse, neglect, or mistreating residents... "2.1.2.1 Knowledge of actions by a court of law against an employee, which would indicate unfitness for service...". Review of the personnel file for nursing assistant (NA) #1 found she had previously worked in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The personnel file contained no evidence to reflect the facility made a reasonable effort to determine whether this individual had criminal convictions in Virginia which would render him / her unfit to work in a long term care facility. An interview with the administrator, on 12/09/10 at 3:10 p.m., confirmed the facility had no evidence that NA #1 had been screened for criminal convictions in Virginia. 2014-04-01