cms_WV: 543

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
543	MERCER NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER	515052	1275 SOUTHVIEW DRIVE	BLUEFIELD	WV	24701	2018-11-29	812	F	0	1	J9FW11	Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to maintain the kitchen in a safe and sanitary manner. Bowls and tray covers were not stored inverted and foods that had passed their use by/best by/expiration dates were found in a refrigerator, a food serving area, and the dry storage area. This had the potential to affect all residents in the facility. Facility census: 97. Findings included: a) Kitchen Tour An initial tour of the facility kitchen began on 11/26/18 at 10:23 AM with Dietary Services Supervisor (DSS) #122. During this tour, one (1) individual bowl of prepared salad with a use by date of 11/22/18 was found in a refrigerator containing resident food across from the tray line. DSS #122 removed the salad at the time of the finding. On shelves underneath the tray line, a box labeled Orange Pekoe and Pekoe Cut Black Tea containing 41 loose tea bags was found to have a best by date of 07/12/15. On the same shelves underneath the tray line, stacks of bowls were found facing up, potentially exposing the insides of the bowls to dust, debris, and/or splatter. Numerous tray covers were found on top of the tray line also facing up, potentially exposing the insides to dust, debris, and/or splatters. Once notified of the above issues, DSS #122 removed the box of loose tea bags. She stated that she did not feel that the bowls and tray covers needed to be stored inverted since they were dry. DSS #122 confirmed that the bowls and tray covers were used in serving resident food. She was then asked for a facility policy indicating that it was acceptable not to invert bowls and tray covers to be used in serving resident food. DSS #122 stated she was not aware of any such policy. In the dry storage room, 11 more boxes of Orange Pekoe and Pekoe Cut Black Tea were found. Each box had a best by date of (MONTH) (YEAR) and contained 100 tea bags. One (1) 11-pound container of vanilla creme icing with a use by date of 11/10/18 was also found in the dry storage area. At 10:37 AM, DSS #122 was notified of the findings and removed the outdated items from storage. On 11/29/18 at 10:42 AM, the facility's Director of Nursing (DoN) was informed of the issues. No further information was provided by the facility prior to the end of the survey.	2020-09-01