cms_AK: 77

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.

Data source: Big Local News · About: big-local-datasette

This data as json, copyable

rowid facility_name facility_id address city state zip inspection_date deficiency_tag scope_severity complaint standard eventid inspection_text filedate
77 WRANGELL MEDICAL CENTER LTC 25015 P.O. BOX 1081 WRANGELL AK 99929 2017-06-09 328 D 0 1 8G9Y11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review, observation and interview the facility failed to ensure humidified oxygen was maintained for 1 resident (#2) of 1 sampled resident who received oxygen. This failed practice failed to ensure the use of humidified oxygen to relive dryness of nasal passages and maintain resident comfort. Findings: Resident #2 Record review on 6/6-9/17, revealed Resident #2 was admitted to the facility with [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. Record review on 6/7/17, of Resident#2's most current care plan revealed, Oxygen at 2L via nasal cannula , round hourly when resident is in bed. Specifically check her for oxygen being on at 2L via NC (nasal cannula) . Observation on 6/7/17, at 10:10 am revealed the humidifier bottle attached to the wall oxygen was near empty. The oxygen delivery was set at 2L, via nasal cannula. Observation on 6/7/17, at 3:10 pm revealed the humidifier bottle attached to the wall oxygen was near empty. The oxygen delivery was set at 2L, via nasal cannula. Observation on 6/8/17, at 7:38 am revealed the humidifier bottle attached to the wall oxygen was empty. The oxygen delivery was set at 2L, via nasal cannula. Observation on 6/8/17, at 1:30 pm revealed the humidifier bottle attached to the wall oxygen was full of water and bubbling. The oxygen delivery was set at 2L, via nasal cannula. During an interview on 6/9/17, at 8:45 am, RN #1 stated the oxygen humidification bottles were all staffs responsibility to fill daily. In addition, the purpose of oxygen humidification is to prevent nasal dryness and provide resident comfort. 2020-09-01