cms_ME: 34

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
34 BARRON CENTER 205011 1145 BRIGHTON AVE PORTLAND ME 4102 2017-10-26 329 D 0 1 7DKA11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure that 1 of 5 residents (Resident #55) sampled for unnecessary medications received a gradual dose reduction, unless clinically contraindicated, for an antipsychotic medication. Finding: On review of Resident #55's clinical record, the surveyor noted the resident's current physician's orders [REDACTED]. In an interview with the surveyor on 10/26/17 at 12:09 p.m., the Interim Administrator confirmed there is no evidence of any attempted gradual dose reductions for the antipsychotic medication [MEDICATION NAME]. 2020-09-01