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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
11493 JACKIE WITHROW HOSPITAL 5.1e+110 105 SOUTH EISENHOWER DRIVE BECKLEY WV 25801 2010-10-07 456 F     50Z111 . Based on observation, staff interview, and measurements of ambient room air temperatures, the facility failed to maintain heating boilers in a safe operating condition. Facility census: 81. Findings include: a) Interview with the facility's administrator and the maintenance director, on 10/04/10 at approximately 1:40 p.m., revealed the facility's heating boiler system was in need of repair. The boilers intended to heat the resident rooms and common areas had been inspected by a boiler inspector and were "red tagged" as not operational (prohibiting the use of the boiler system until defects in the system were corrected) during inspections dated 08/06/10 and 08/09/10. At the time of this interview, the administrator and maintenance director related a plan for the installation of a temporarily heating boiler for use during the winter until permanent repair / replacement of the existing heating boiler system could be implemented. This process would take approximately three (3) weeks, during which the facility had to solicit competitive bids for a temporary heating boiler before a contract could be awarded to a outside vendor for installation. - b) Ambient air temperatures of resident rooms were taken by the life-safety code (LSC) surveyor, accompanied by a licensed practical nurse (LPN - Employee #158), between the hours of 5:30 a.m. to 6:35 a.m. on 10/05/10. Fifty-eight (58) of sixty-five (65) occupied resident rooms were found to be below 70 degrees F, and nineteen (19) of sixty-five (65) occupied resident room were found to be below 65 degrees F. According to the National Weather Service, the minimum outdoor temperature in the Beckley, WV area on 10/04/10, measured at 3:35 a.m., was 43 degrees F. The outside ambient air temperature, during the time of testing resident rooms on the morning of 10/05/10, was found to be 49 degrees F. - c) Resident room ambient air temperatures were taken again between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. on 10/06/10. At this time, forty-four (44) of forty-eight (48) occupied resident rooms tested were found below 70 degrees F, and twenty (20) of forty-eight (48) occupied resident rooms were below 65 degrees F. According to the National Weather Service, the minimum outdoor temperature in the Beckley, WV area on 10/05/10, measured at 11:59 p.m., was 41 degrees F. The outside ambient air temperature, during the time of testing resident rooms on the morning of 10/06/10, was 46 degrees F. - d) A review of the National Weather Service's extended seven (7) day forecast for the Beckley area, for 10/06/10 through 10/12/10, revealed low temperatures ranging from 40 to 49 degrees F. With the boilers not operational, the facility could not maintain safe and comfortable environment for residents to prevent the risk of hypothermia. (See also citations at F224 and F257.) . 2014-02-01