cms_ME: 12

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
12 HIBBARD SKILLED NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER 205004 1037 WEST MAIN STREET DOVER FOXCROFT ME 4426 2019-01-31 812 E 0 1 U8NG11 Based on observations and interviews, the facility failed to ensure the kitchen floors were clean and free of dirt and grime on 4 of 4 days of survey (1/28/19, 1/29/19, 1/30/19 and 1/31/19), failed to label mighty shakes and nutritional juices with a thaw date on 1 of 4 days of survey (1/28/19), and failed to allow plates and small bowls to air dry before stacking them on a serving counter on 1 of 4 days of survey (1/29/19). Findings: On 1/28/19 at 11:00 a.m. during the initial tour of the kitchen, a surveyor observed the kitchen floors were very dirty with built up dirt and grime. Under the cook stove and the convection oven, the floors were blackened with dirt and grime and the grout lines of the tiled floor were filled with built up black grime and under the prep table and bakers table there was a buildup of grime. Under the steel table on the left side of the steamtable, the floor had what appeared to be chips, french fries, and dried on juice. In the walk-in refrigerator, there were 12 thawed mighty shake nutritional drinks and 15 thawed nutritional juices on a tray not labeled with a thaw date; the storage and handling instructions on the cartons was to use within 14 days after thawing. On 1/29/19 at 9:15 a.m., during a second tour of the kitchen, a surveyor observed the kitchen floors were still dirty with built up dirt and grime. On the steel table on the left side of the steamtable, a surveyor and the Food Service Supervisor (FSS ) observed 8 bread plates and 16 small bowls (monkey dishes) wet stacked. The FSS removed all the dishes and instructed staff to allow to air dry before stacking on the table. On 1/30/19 at 10:00 a.m., during a follow-up tour of the kitchen, a surveyor observed the kitchen floors had been swept and mopped but a buildup of dirt and grime remain in the grout lines of the tiled floor and under the cook stove and convection oven. The FSS stated they are in the process of working with Maintenance to find a product to clean the floors. On 1/31/19 at 8:30 a.m., during a follow-up tour of the kitchen, a surveyor observed the kitchen floors still have a dirt and grime build up in the grout lines of the tiled floor. The surveyor confirmed these findings with the FSS at the time of the observations. 2020-09-01