cms_AL: 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	COOSA VALLEY HEALTHCARE CENTER	15010	260 WEST WALNUT STREET	SYLACAUGA	AL	35150	2018-06-07	880	D	0	1	FTJ211	Based on observations, interviews and review of a facility policy titled, Gloving, the facility failed to ensure a licensed staff member wore gloves when administering a subcutaneous injection to Resident Identifier (RI) #7 on 6/06/2018. This affected one of three residents observed for subcutaneous injections during medication administration observations. Findings include: Review of a facility policy titled: Gloving, with an effective date of 8/2005 revealed: . I. Indications [NAME] To reduce the possibility that personnel will become infected with microorganisms, to reduce the likelihood that personnel will transmit their own endogenous microbial flora to resident . II. [NAME] All employees who come in direct contact with blood or body fluids are to wear gloves . B. Gloves should be worn for any procedure requiring aseptic technique. On 6/06/18 at 4:32 PM, Employee Identifier (EI) #6, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), was observed administering a subcutaneous injection to RI #7. EI #6 did not wear any gloves for the administration of the injection. EI #6 was interviewed on 6/07/18 at 3:39 PM. When asked what the facility's policy indicated about when gloves should be worn, EI #6 was unsure; however, after reviewing the policy, EI #6 said gloves should be worn anytime a procedure requires aseptic technique. EI #6 said gloves should be worn when administering a subcutaneous injection to prevent cross contamination.	2020-09-01