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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
2	GUAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY	655000	499 NORTH SABANA DRIVE	BARRIGADA	GU	96913	2019-01-30	583	C	0	1	IS8311	Based on observation and interview the facility failed to provide privacy and confidentiality for 18 out of 18 residents in the nursing unit. This failure exposed the resident's diagnosis, treatments, medications and personal concerns when the census flow sheet was left out on the cart in the hallway. Findings include: During a unit tour on 1/29/2019 at 9:00 a.m., noticed on top of the medication cart the census entire unit flow sheet record. The census flow sheet contained the resident names, diagnosis, medications, treatments and personal concerns. The census flow sheet was not secured and all the resident's information was displayed and anyone walking in the hallway would have access to the residents' confidential medical record information. During an interview on 1/29/2019 at 9:05 a.m., with Staff #5 she acknowledged that the census flow sheet was left out on top of the medication cart which exposed all the residents' personal and confidential information. Staff # 5 quickly apologized and stated that she knows better and should have placed the form into her binder or inside the medication cart. During an interview concurrent with a policy review on 1/29/2019 at 9:50 a.m., with administrative Staff #2 she acknowledged that the census flow sheet definitely disclosed confidential information about the 18 residents on the unit and it should not be left exposed to everyone. She also specified that she had multiple in-services with the nursing staff in regards to safe guarding the patient's confidential information. During the review of the facility policy titled Medical Record Processing for Skilled Nursing Unit disclosed that the medical record will be systematically organized, stored in a safe, secured manner to ensure patient confidentiality. The facility will maintain all patient information in a secure location to ensure protection from loss, destruction or unauthorized use.	2020-09-01