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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
1543 WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS CENTER 515100 345 POCAHONTAS TRAIL WHITE SULPHUR SPRING WV 24986 2019-02-14 842 D 0 1 Y5ZN11 Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure the medication record information is kept confidential. Resident #49's medication record was left open and visible to anyone passing by the medication cart. In addition failed to ensure Resident #23's nutritional assessment was accurate in the area of pressure ulcers. Resident identifiers: #49 and #23. Facility census: 62. Findings included: a) Resident #49 On 02/13/19 at 10:10 AM an observation revealed the medication record was left open and flipped to Resident #49's record on the medication cart. The medication cart was sitting outside the nurses desk area. Residents as well as visitors passing by could easily read the information in the medication book. Nursing staff were inside the medication storage room behind the nurses station. They were not within eye sight of the medication record. At 10:25 AM on 02/13/19 Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #3, was asked to look at the medication book on the medication cart. LPN #3 then asked Registered Nurse #35 to close the book. b) Resident #23 Review of Resident #23's medical records reviewed a Nutritional Assessment was performed on 12/18/18. The question, Are there any pressure ulcers? was answered as no. On 12/18/18 at 9:37 AM, discovered a progress note stating, Dressing changed to sacrum as ordered. During an interview on 02/12/19 at 2:06 PM, the Director of Nursing (DON) stated the Nutritional Assessment performed on 12/18/18 was erroneous in stating Resident #23 did not have a pressure ulcer. 2020-09-01