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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
40 GUARDIAN ELDER CARE AT WHEELING 515002 20 HOMESTEAD AVENUE WHEELING WV 26003 2017-03-01 164 E 0 1 TKXD11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observations and staff interviews, the facility failed to maintain visual privacy during one (1) of three (3) dressing change observations for Resident #177. The facility failed to maintain privacy for medication packages for three (3) residents (Resident #38, #195 and #185). Resident identifiers: #177, #38, #195, and #185. Facility census 145. Findings include: a.) Resident #177 During a dressing change, on 02/23/17 at 12:00 p.m., Registered Nurse (RN) #137 and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #64 entered the room to perform the dressing change. Resident #177 was in the bed by the window. The window blind was open and facing at street level a parking lot. RN #137 nor LPN #64 closed the window blind. RN #137 pulled the privacy curtain part of the way around the foot of the bed but leaving the mirror over the sink exposed to the resident's roommate. LPN #64 instructed Resident #177 to roll over onto her stomach. LPN #64 removed the dressing exposing a large stage IV pressure ulcer on the resident's coccyx. RN #137 was preparing the new dressing items. The resident's roommate face was seen in the mirror. The roommate had two (2) visiting family members. The roommate stated, you can pull the curtain, so she can have her privacy. LPN #64 then pulled the curtain completely to provide privacy from the mirror. During an interview, on 02/23/17 at 1:08 p.m., RN #137 stated she had thought about closing the window blind during the dressing change but just didn't do it. RN #137 stated she didn't realize the privacy curtain had not be pulled completely to provide privacy. During an interview, on 02/23/17 at 3:03 p.m., the Director of Nursing (DON) stated her expectation was all staff were to provide full visual privacy during dressing changes. b) A random observation of the 800 Hall on 02/23/17 at 8:15 a.m. revealed three (3) visible empty medication cards/packets in the trash can of the medication cart. The following medication cards contained the residents full name and medication orders on the pharmacy label: --Resident #38 - [MEDICATION NAME] 200 mg --Resident #195 - [MEDICATION NAME] 30 mg --Resident #185 - Losartan Potassium 50 mg An interview with Registered Nurse-Nurse Manager(RN-NM) #21 on 02/23/17 at 8:15 a.m. revealed the empty medication cards should not have been in the trash. The RN-NM stated once the medication cards are empty they are shredded. 2020-09-01