cms_DE: 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 KENTMERE REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE CENTER 85001 1900 LOVERING AVENUE WILMINGTON DE 19806 2018-12-06 558 D 1 1 H65F11 > Based on observation and interview, it was determined that the facility failed to provide reasonable accommodation of an individual needs for one (R9) out of 54 sampled residents, by not having the call bell within reach. Findings include: Observation on 11/27/18 at 3:28 PM, revealed R9 seated in a wheelchair in her room near her bed. R9's call bell was observed clipped on the opposite side of her bed up against the wall where she was unable to reach it. E5 (LPN) was called into R9's room and confirmed that the resident was capable of using the call bell when requiring assistance. E5 confirmed that the call bell was out of reach and proceeded to place it within R9's reach. Findings were reviewed with E2 (DON) on 12/5/18 at 1:50 PM. On 12/6/18 at approximately 7:45 PM, findings were reviewed with E1 (NHA), E2, E3 (ADON), and E14 (QA) during the exit conference. 2020-09-01