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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
35	KETCHIKAN MED CTR NEW HORIZONS TRANSITIONAL CARE	25010	3100 TONGASS AVENUE	KETCHIKAN	AK	99901	2019-08-23	880	F	0	1	0OWF11	Based on observations and interviews the facility failed to maintain an infection prevention and control program designed to provide a safe and sanitary environment in the central kitchen. This failed practice placed all residents (based on a census of 24) at risk for food borne illnesses. Findings: Random observations and interviews from 8/19-22/19 revealed multiple deficiencies noted in food handling (single-use gloves during food plating), food storage, cleanliness of environment and competencies in the sanitation process. During an interview on 8/22/19 at from 8:00 am to 9:30 am, the Infection Preventionist (IP) was asked what oversight the Infection Control Program had in the dietary department, The IP stated he/she completed an annual walkthrough but was overdue for an evaluation of the central kitchen. When asked if he/she provides any infection control in-services to the dietary staff, the IP stated he/she would only conduct in-services if a deficiency or gap in education was identified. The IP further stated the last infection control in-service conducted for dietary staff was over year ago. The IP stated he/she was not aware of the systematic failures in the kitchen and an evaluation needed to be conducted. During an interview on 8/22/19 at 9:14 am the Administrator stated that the facility's infection control program should have been conducting more frequent oversight due to the deficiencies and systematic failures noted by the State Survey Agency.	2020-09-01