cms_ME: 28

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.

This data as json, copyable

rowid facility_name facility_id address city state zip inspection_date deficiency_tag scope_severity complaint standard eventid inspection_text filedate
28 MONTELLO MANOR 205006 540 COLLEGE ST LEWISTON ME 4240 2019-12-18 761 D 0 1 UDD011 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observations and interviews, the facility failed to ensure an expired medication was removed from the supply available for use in 1 of 2 medication refrigerators. Finding: On [DATE] at 10:27 a.m., a surveyor observed in the North/East Medication room refrigerator, an opened multidose vial of [MEDICATION NAME], Purified Protein Derivative (TB), with an open date of [DATE]. The manufacturer's instructions indicated that once entered, vial should be discarded after 30 days. At the time of the observation the Licensed Practical Nurse confirmed the vial was available for use and 5 days past the discard date. On [DATE] at 2:35 p.m., a surveyor confirmed the above findings with the Director of Nursing. 2020-09-01