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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
11445 EAGLE POINTE 515159 1600 27TH STREET PARKERSBURG WV 26101 2011-05-12 225 E     1I0H11 . Based on a review of sampled employees' personnel files, a review of the facility's pre-employment screening policies and procedures, and staff interview, the facility failed to complete statewide criminal background checks for five (5) of five (5) sampled employees, in an effort to identify criminal histories that would indicate unfitness for service in a nursing facility. Employee identifiers: #1, #27, #28, #82, and #182. Facility census: 129. Findings include: a) Employees #1, #27, #28, #82, and #182 Review of personnel records for five (5) new employees (#1, #27, #28, #82, and #182) disclosed no evidence that statewide background checks had been completed in an effort to identify criminal histories that would indicate unfitness for service in a nursing facility for each of these employees who were hired for the facility since 01/12/11. Review of the personnel records with the business office manager (Employee ##147), on 05/05/11 at 9:00 a.m., found a third party vendor was completing the background checks for the facility, but there was no evidence the third party vendor had verified with the facility that the background checks were completed. In the mid-afternoon of 05/09/11, a corporate consultant (Employee #202) reported the facility's policy for pre-employment screening did not include specific instructions about how to obtain a statewide background check. The "Initial Screening of Prospective Applicants" policy stated, "Provider will conduct criminal background checks on all perspective applicants...", but it did not specify how the background checks would be conducted or what the procedure would be followed in order to ensure the background checks were completed. Employee #202 explained that the facility completed fingerprinting on perspective employees and submitted them to a vendor that completed background checks, but they did not keep evidence to verify these actions had been completed. The vendor, in turn, returned a computer printout saying whether the background was completed. However, this printout did not include evidence as to how the background checks were completed. . 2014-03-01