cms_WY: 454

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
454 WESTWARD HEIGHTS CARE CENTER 535034 150 CARING WAY LANDER WY 82520 2018-07-26 623 E 0 1 0JZF11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on medical record review and staff interview the facility failed to ensure a transfer notice was issued to 5 of 5 sample residents with hospital transfers (#4, #34, #36, #43, #47). The findings were: 1. Review of the medical records showed resident #4 was transferred to the hospital on [DATE]. Further review showed no evidence the facility issued a written notice of transfer to the resident or the resident's representative. 2. Review of the medical record showed resident #34 was transferred to the hospital on [DATE] and 7/3/18 for acute changes of condition. In addition the resident was transferred to the hospital on [DATE] for a scheduled surgery. Further review showed no evidence the facility issued a written notice of transfer to the resident or the resident's representative. 3. Review of the medical record showed resident #36 went to the hospital due to a change in condition on 3/16/18 and returned on 3/19/18. Further review showed no evidence the facility issued a written notice of transfer to the resident or the resident's representative. 4. Review of the medical record showed resident #43 was transferred to the hospital on [DATE] for an acute change of condition. Further review showed no evidence the facility issued a written notice of transfer to the resident or the resident's representative 5. Review of the medical record showed resident #47 was transferred to the hospital via the facility van on 1/18/18 and 7/17/18 for an acute change of condition. On 5/31/18 the resident was transferred to urgent care for an acute change of condition and was then transferred to the hospital and admitted to the intensive care unit. Further review showed no evidence the facility issued a written notice of transfer to the resident or the resident's representative. 6. Interview on 7/25/18 at 10:03 AM with the DON and the administrator confirmed the facility did not issue a written notice of transfer with all required information to the resident or the resident's representative. 2020-09-01