cms_AK: 14

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
14 KETCHIKAN MED CTR NEW HORIZONS TRANSITIONAL CARE 25010 3100 TONGASS AVENUE KETCHIKAN AK 99901 2018-08-03 689 E 0 1 RHGS11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, interview and record review the facility failed to ensure the adequate supervision for 1 resident (#7) out of 14 sampled residents. Specifically, the facility failed to conduct a safety assessment on one resident (#7) utilizing a wheelchair to leave the facility. This finding places the resident at a potential risk for an accident. Findings: Resident #7 Record review on 7/30/18 - 8/3/18 revealed Resident #7 was admitted to the facility with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Observation on 7/31/18 at 7:00 am, revealed the Resident outside the facility in a wheelchair. The Resident was observed stationary in a wheelchair on the sidewalk at the top of a steep incline needing to be navigated in order to gain access to the facility. Review of the most recent MDS (Minimum Data Set, a federally required nursing assessment) assessment, a significant change assessment dated [DATE], revealed Resident #7 had a BIMS (Brief Interview for Mental Status) score of 15 (a score of 13-15 means the person is cognitively intact). Further review revealed the significant change MDS assessment dated [DATE] was a result of the resident experiencing a fracture from a fall. During an interview on 8/2/18 at 15:35 pm, the Director of Nursing (DON) and Administrator (ADM) both stated no, when asked if the Resident had a safety assessment based on observations of the Resident behaviors. Additionally the DON and ADM stated no when asked if the facility had a policy for safety assessments for residents leaving the facility in wheelchairs. 2020-09-01