cms_AK: 17

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
17	KETCHIKAN MED CTR NEW HORIZONS TRANSITIONAL CARE	25010	3100 TONGASS AVENUE	KETCHIKAN	AK	99901	2018-08-03	812	F	0	1	RHGS11	Based on observation, interview, and record review of the central kitchen area, the facility failed to prepare food under proper sanitation and food handling practices. Specifically, the food service staff failed to perform hand hygiene according to accepted professional practices during the provision of food care and services. This failed practice placed all residents (based on a census of 18) at risk for the development of disease and infection in a vulnerable population. Findings: Observation on 7/30/18 at 16:40 pm, revealed Kitchen Staff (KS) #s 2 & 3 preparing meal trays for the long term care residents. Continual observations revealed KS #3 not performing hand hygiene between glove changes during tray assembly. The assembly of the meal trays included handling the food with gloved hands. Observations further revealed KS #2 with gloves on, going to the freezer, opening the door and pulling out a loaf of frozen bread. KS #2 continued to open the bag, reach in, break the loaf apart and grab a piece of bread from the middle of the loaf. KS #2 then put the piece of bread in toaster and continued back to the tray line to assemble meals without glove changes or hand hygiene. During an interview on 8/3/18 at 7:20 am, KS #4 stated yes when asked if hand hygiene should be performed between glove changes. During an interview on 8/3/18 at 10:05 am, the Dietary Manger stated yes when asked if hand hygiene should be performed between glove changes. Review of the facility policy Washing Hands-Ketchikan Medical Center Food Service Department - SOP, undated, revealed 7. Wash Hands: Before putting on or taking off gloves. Review of the State of Alaska, Department of Environmental Conservation, Alaska Safe Food Worker Handbook accessed 8/6/18 at https://dec.alaska.gov/eh/fss/training.html, revealed Part 1: Food Worker Knowledge and Health, Handwashing, When to Wash your Hands .When changing gloves.	2020-09-01