cms_AZ: 40

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
40	DESERT TERRACE HEALTHCARE CENTER	35014	2509 NORTH 24TH STREET	PHOENIX	AZ	85008	2017-12-05	812	D	0	1	6GPJ11	Based on observations, staff interview and policy review, the facility failed to ensure eating utensils were dry and ready to use, prior to being placed on resident's food trays. Findings include: An observation was conducted of the tray line on (MONTH) 30, (YEAR) at 12:05 p.m. Staff were observed placing wet eating utensils on the resident's food trays, just prior to the food trays being placed in the food cart for delivery to the unit. At this time, a dietary staff member directed the staff to make sure the utensils were not wet, and some of the wet utensils were removed off of the trays. However, further observations revealed that staff continued to place wet utensils on the food trays. An interview was conducted with a dietary staff member (staff #57) on (MONTH) 30, (YEAR) at 1:00 p.m. Staff #57 stated that he was responsible for ensuring that the utensils placed on the resident's trays were clean and dry. Staff #57 stated that the utensils had just come from the dishwasher and he missed some. Review of a policy regarding clean and dry dishware and utensils revealed documentation that all flatware, serving dishes, and cookware will be washed, rinsed, and sanitized after each use. The policy included that dishes and utensils were to air dry on the dish rack and were not to be dried with towels, and that when removing dishes, staff were to inspect them for cleanliness and dryness.	2020-09-01