cms_ME: 37

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
37	BARRON CENTER	205011	1145 BRIGHTON AVE	PORTLAND	ME	4102	2018-12-07	582	C	0	1	OYJ711	Based on interviews and clinical record review, the facility failed to ensure liability notices, which included appeal rights, were provided to 3 of 3 residents whose Medicare services were discontinued (Residents #18, #78 and #268). Findings: 1. On review of Resident #18's liability notices, issued prior to the end of Medicare Part A services on 5/31/18, the surveyor could not locate evidence that the Notice to Medicare Provider Non-coverage (NOMNC) was provided to the resident informing his/her right to an expedited review of a service termination. 2. On review of Resident #78's liability notices, issued prior to the end of Medicare Part A services on 5/31/18, the surveyor could not locate evidence that the NOMNC was provided to the resident informing his/her right to an expedited review of a service termination. 3. On review of Resident #268's liability notices, issued prior to the end of Medicare Part A services on 10/17/18, the surveyor could not locate evidence that the NOMNC was provided to the resident informing his/her right to an expedited review of a service termination. On 12/4/18 at 2:10 p.m., in an interview with two Licensed Social Workers, the surveyor confirmed that NOMNCs were not issued prior to the end of Medicare Part A services. They stated that they verbally inform the residents of their appeal rights, however, they stated they are not providing that information in writing.	2020-09-01