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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
77	GUARDIAN ELDER CARE AT WHEELING	515002	20 HOMESTEAD AVENUE	WHEELING	WV	26003	2019-08-06	761	E	0	1	WJ7O11	NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure drugs and biological's used in the facility were stored and labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles. Multiple opened medications stored in the 100, 200, and 300 Hall Medication Carts were unlabeled and undated. This practice had the potential to affect more than a limited number of residents. Facility census: 140. Findings include: a) 100 Hall Medication Cart An observation of the 100 Hall Medication Cart, on 08/05/19 at 8:26 AM, revealed the following items: --One (1) bottle of opened and undated Fiber Caps. --Two (2) bottles of opened and undated Senna tablets. --One (1) bottle of opened and undated [MEDICATION NAME] tablets. --One (1) unidentified white pill was at the bottom of the medication cart. --One (1) package of opened and undated [MEDICATION NAME] Sodium tablet. An interview with Registered Nurse (RN) #5, on 08/05/19 at 8:30 AM, revealed all medications should be dated when opened. b) 200 Hall Medication Cart An observation of the 200 Hall Medication Cart, on 08/05/19 at 8:38 AM, revealed the following items: --One (1) package of Gas-X with an expiration of 03/2014. --One (1) package of [MEDICATION NAME] with an expiration of (YEAR). --One (1) opened package of [MEDICATION NAME] Suppositories with no open date. An interview with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #113, on 08/05/19 at 8:40 AM, revealed she was not sure why the medications had not been dated or thrown away. c) 300 Hall Medication Cart An observation of the 300 Hall Medication Cart, on 08/05/19 at 8:52 AM, revealed the following items: --One (1) weekly pill [MEDICATION NAME] with three unidentified (3) pills in each of the seven (7) daily spots. There was no name on the [MEDICATION NAME]. --One (1) bottle of opened and undated Sodium [MEDICATION NAME]. --One (1) pack of opened and undated Sore Throat [MEDICATION NAME]. --Two (2) bottles of opened and undated Cough Suppressant. An interview with LPN #7, on 08/05/19 at 8:53 AM, revealed she did not know who the pill [MEDICATION NAME] belonged to. She also did not know what pills were inside the [MEDICATION NAME]. The LPN stated when medication is opened then the package or bottle should be dated as to when it was opened.	2020-09-01