cms_ME: 24

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
24 MONTELLO MANOR 205006 540 COLLEGE ST LEWISTON ME 4240 2019-12-18 623 B 0 1 UDD011 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record reviews and interviews, the facility failed to notify the resident and/or the resident representative in writing of the transfer/discharge to the hospital for 3 of 3 sampled residents (#30, #34, #8 ). Findings: 1. Documentation in Resident's #30's clinical record indicated Resident #30 was transferred to the hospital on [DATE] and admitted . The medical record lacked evidence that Resident #30 or his/her representative was provided a written transfer/discharge notice. On 12/17/19 at 10:30 p.m., in an interview with a Director of Nursing, a surveyor confirmed that Resident #30 or his/her representative did not receive a written transfer/discharge notice for the hospital transfer on 11/9/19. 2. Documentation in Resident's #34's clinical record indicated Resident #34 was discharged /transferred to an acute hospital on [DATE]. The clinical record lacked evidence that the facility issued a written discharge/transfer notice to include appeal rights to the resident and/or resident representative. On 12/17/19 at 11:11 a.m., in an interview with a Director of Nursing, a surveyor confirmed that Resident #34 his/her representative did not receive a written transfer/discharge notice for the hospital transfer on 12/3/19. 3. Documentation in Resident's #8's clinical record indicated Resident #8 was discharged /transferred to an acute hospital on [DATE]. The clinical record lacked evidence that the facility issued a written discharge/transfer notice to include appeal rights to the resident and/or resident representative. On 12/16/19 at 2:00 p.m. in an interview wwith the Director of Nussing, a surveyor confirmed lack of discharge/transfer notice to include appeal rights to the resident and/or resident represented. 2020-09-01