cms_ME: 17

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
17 HIBBARD SKILLED NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER 205004 1037 WEST MAIN STREET DOVER FOXCROFT ME 4426 2018-02-08 770 E 0 1 RFBP11 Based on record reviews and interviews, the facility failed to ensure Physician lab orders were completed as ordered for 2 of 18 sampled Residents (#27, #67). Findings: 1. On 2/8/18, a review of Resident #27's clinical record was completed. Resident #27 had a Physician lab order to draw a Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP) on 1/2/18. On 2/8/18 at 9:30 a.m., in an interview with the surveyor, the Long Term Care (LTC) Nurse Manager, stated that she was unable to find a lab result for the BMP and could not find evidence that it was drawn. The LTC Manager stated that she would place it in the lab book to be drawn. The surveyor confirmed this finding at this time. 2. On 2/6/18, during a review of Resident #67's clinical record, Resident #67 had a Physician lab order, dated 2/1/18, for a urine reflux test. The surveyor was unable to find evidence of this test being completed. On 2/6/18 at 12:18 p.m., during an interview with a surveyor, the Charge Nurse stated that this test has not been completed and this order was overlooked. The surveyor confirmed this finding with the Charge Nurse at this time. 2020-09-01