cms_AZ: 53

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
53	HANDMAKER HOME FOR THE AGING	35016	2221 NORTH ROSEMONT BOULEVARD	TUCSON	AZ	85712	2016-10-06	364	D	0	1	VEV011	Based on observations and staff interviews, the facility failed to ensure that residents were assisted with their meals in a timely manner, in order to maintain food at preferable temperatures. Findings include: A dinning observation was conducted on (MONTH) 3, (YEAR) at 11:45 a.m. on the Kalmanovitz secured dementia unit. During this observation, two residents were seated in their wheelchairs at the same table. Once the noon meal arrived on the unit, the food was served to both of the residents and the plate covers were removed. At this time, neither resident was observed to attempt to feed themselves, nor did staff attempt to feed either resident. After 15 minutes, a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant/staff #224) attempted to assist one of the residents with her meal. The resident was observed to not want to eat the meal. After 5 minutes, the CNA moved to the second resident and attempted to feed this resident. However, this resident also did not want to eat her food. Further observations revealed that the CNA, nor any other staff member was observed to offer to re-heat the resident's food. An interview was conducted with staff #224 immediately following this observation. Although the lunch meal had sat uncovered for 15-20 minutes, staff #224 stated that she thought the food would still be warm, because she could feel the warmth from the food, while she cut the noodles up with a spoon. Another interview was conducted on (MONTH) 4, (YEAR) at 2:30 p.m., with the DON (Director of Nursing/staff #161). She stated that the residents' food should have remained covered until staff were ready to assist the residents with their meals. She also stated that the meal could have been re-heated if needed.	2020-09-01