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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
5	COOSA VALLEY HEALTHCARE CENTER	15010	260 WEST WALNUT STREET	SYLACAUGA	AL	35150	2017-04-06	253	D	0	1	0F3P11	Based on observations, interview and review of a facility document titled Cart List, the facility failed to ensure a plaster like substance was not hanging from the dining room ceiling on three of four days of the survey. This had the potential to affect 13 of 74 residents who eat meals in the dining room. Findings Include: On 4/4/17 at 8:07 a.m., and 12:35 p.m., the surveyor observed a plaster like substance hanging from the ceiling in the dining room. At 12:35 p.m., the surveyor observed a resident sitting under the ceiling where the plaster was hanging. On 4/5/17 at 4:00 p.m., the surveyor observed the plaster continued to hang from the ceiling. On 4/6/17 at 2:00 p.m., an interview was conducted with EI (Employee Identifier)#7, a maintenance staff member. EI #7 was asked what was hanging from the ceiling in the dining room. EI #7 replied, plaster ceiling flaking. EI #7 was asked why was it hanging. EI #7 replied, moisture being absorbed into the plaster. EI #7 was asked what was the facility's policy on the up keep of the ceiling. EI #7 replied, remove flakes of plaster and patch it. EI #7 was asked when were rounds last made on observing the ceiling. EI #7 replied, daily and a couple times a day. EI #7 was asked what was the potential harm when there was plaster hanging from the ceiling and a resident was sitting under the hanging plaster. EI #7 replied, worst harm would be plaster falling into the food.	2020-09-01