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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
32	PINE LODGE	515001	405 STANAFORD ROAD	BECKLEY	WV	25801	2019-06-10	689	D	0	1	8Y4111	Based on observation, staff interview, and Policy review the facility failed to ensure an environment that is free from accident hazards over which the facility has control and provides supervision and assistive devices to each resident to prevent avoidable accidents. This was a random opportunity for discovery with the potential to affect a limited number of residents. Resident identifier: #53. Facility census 111. Findings included: a) Resident #53 1. Policy review Facility Waste Management policy directed personnel to: --Discard contaminated sharps immediately be disposed in a sharp's container. --Not discard sharps in routine trash. 2. Observation During an interview on 06/04/19 at 9:40 AM, with the Resident #53's roommate, this surveyor observed Resident #53 in her wheelchair at the sink with the water running. Resident #53 then moved herself over to the window. Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #85 entered the room and asked if she could turn off the water. She turned off the water and picked up a blue razor from the sink and threw it in the trash can under the sink. Resident #53 wheeled herself to the sink and removed the razor from the trash can. With the razor on her lap she wheeled herself back in front of her window and began the shave her left leg. Upon closer observation it was noted that her left ankle was bleeding. 3. Interviews This surveyor asked a passing employee get a nurse and distracted the resident with conversation. LPN #85 returned to the room and looked at Resident #53's left. LPN #85 left the room to retrieve supplies to treat the cuts to Resident #53's legs. There were seven (7) cuts on her left leg from the razor. On 06/04/19 at 10:00 AM, LPN #85 and Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) #61 returned to the room with supplies to treat the wounds. LPN #85 was asked how it Resident #53 had access to a razor. She said she uses the razor for the hairs on her chin, but she does it for her. Resident # 53 stated, that she does not remember where she got the razor from. During an interview with Administrator on 06/06/19 at 11:30 AM, was asked where the razors where kept. He stated they were stored in the clean utility room that had a coded lock on the door, inside the room they were stored in a drawer. He stated, that he does not understand how Resident #53 got a razor. During an interview on 06/10/19 at 10:00 AM, Director of Nursing (DoN) stated, that she has removed all razors from the utility rooms and put them in the medication rooms that are locked and only the nurses have access to and the NA have to sign the razors out and back in with a nurse for disposal. She agreed this was an avoidable accident.	2020-09-01