cms_ME: 31

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
31	BARRON CENTER	205011	1145 BRIGHTON AVE	PORTLAND	ME	4102	2019-07-15	609	D	1	0	HJST11	> Based on interviews and record review, the facility failed to report immediately an alleged violation of sexual abuse to the Division of Licensing and Certification (State Survey Agency) and law enforcement officials for 1 of 1 investigated allegations of sexual abuse (Resident #1). Finding: On review of the facility's Abuse Investigation and Reporting policy and procedure, dated 11/2017 and updated 5/25/18, the surveyor noted: All alleged violations involving abuse, neglect, exploitation, or mistreatment will be reported by the facility Administrator, or his/her designee, to: . d. Law enforcement officials; and An alleged violation of abuse, neglect, exploitation or mistreatment will be reported immediately, but not later than: a. Two (2) hours if the alleged violation involves abuse . The Division of Licensing and Certification (DLC) received a facility reported incident dated stamped by fax on 7/8/19 at 12:31 p.m., in which Resident #1 alleged an employee sexually abused him/her on the evening of 7/7/19. Further review of the clinical record indicated the incident occurred prior to 1800 (6:00 p.m.) as the nurses notes indicated, Female staff assigned to perform (Resident #1's) care immediately at 1800. The surveyor could not locate evidence that the allegation was reported immediately to law enforcement and the DLC. In an interview with the Director of Nursing on 7/15/19 at 9:15 a.m., the surveyor confirmed the allegation was not reported to local law enforcement. In an interview with the Registered Nurse (RN)/Unit Manager, on 7/15/19 at 10:02 a.m., the surveyor confirmed the allegation was submitted to the DLC the next day, approximately 18 hours later. On 7/15/19 at 11:22 a.m., in an interview with the Charge Nurse/RN who was on duty the evening the allegation occurred, the surveyor confirmed he/she did not immediately report the allegation to the DLC and local law enforcement.	2020-09-01