cms_ID: 11

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
11 ST LUKE'S ELMORE LONG TERM CARE 135006 895 NORTH 6TH EAST MOUNTAIN HOME ID 83647 2017-07-27 332 D 0 1 V9TA11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, record review, and staff interview, it was determined the facility failed to ensure a medication error rate less than 5 percent. This was true for 2 of 37 medications (5.4%) administered during medication pass and effected 2 of 5 residents (#9 and #10) observed during medication pass. This failed practice placed residents at risk of not receiving medications as ordered by the physician and had the potential to lessen the effectiveness of the medications administered. Findings include: 1. Resident #9 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with multiple diagnoses, including [MEDICAL CONDITION] reflux. Resident #9's Physician order [REDACTED].) On 7/25/17 at 8:25 am, LPN #1 (Licensed Practical Nurse) was observed as she administered morning medications to Resident #9, which included the medication [MEDICATION NAME]. The resident had completed her breakfast and was sitting in the activity room. The Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. 2. Resident #10 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with multiple diagnoses, including [MEDICAL CONDITION] reflux. Resident #10's Physician order [REDACTED]. On 7/25/17 at 8:35 am, LPN #1 was observed as she administered morning medications to Resident #10, which included [MEDICATION NAME]. The resident had completed his breakfast and was sitting in his wheelchair in activity room. On 7/26/17 at 1:25 pm, the Director of Nursing stated the delivery of [MEDICATION NAME] should be given on the 7:00 am medication pass. 2020-09-01