cms_HI: 39

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
39	KULA HOSPITAL	125003	100 KEOKEA PLACE	KULA	HI	96790	2018-06-22	812	D	0	1	GCA011	Based on observation, interview and policy review, the facility failed to distribute food to residents in a sanitary manner. The deficient practice placed residents at risk for illness, infection and the potential for foodborne illness. Findings Include: During the lunch observation on 06/19/18 at 12:41 PM, Staff 36 (S36) was passing trays to the residents. S36 was observed to wipe his brow and touch his cheek on two occasions, and did not sanitize his hands before passing a tray to the next resident. S36 was observed to empty a tray into the refuse can and then passed another tray to a resident without sanitizing his hands. During an interview with S36 on 06/19/18 at 02:45 PM, he stated he didn't sanitize his hands after throwing food into the garbage or when he proceeded to get another resident's tray. S36 said, I guess I had the white coat syndrome. Review of the Hand Hygiene policy 125-500-020 stated, To reduce to as low as possible, the number of viable microorganisms on the hands in order to prevent transmission of healthcare associated pathogens from one patient to another, and to reduce the incidence of healthcare associated infections. 4. Before eating, after eating, . S36 did not follow sanitary hand hygiene practices.	2020-09-01