cms_ME: 4

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
4 CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER 205003 630 OCEAN AVENUE PORTLAND ME 4112 2020-02-13 637 D 0 1 YYCN11 Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to conduct a comprehensive Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS 3.0) assessment within 14 days after a resident experienced a significant change of condition and hospice services were initiated for 2 of 4 sampled residents (Residents #39 and #81). Findings: 1. On review of Resident #81's clinical record, a surveyor noted the resident was receiving hospice services, initiated on 11/19/19. On further review, the surveyor noted the most recent Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS 3.0) assessment was a quarterly assessment completed on 10/28/19. The most recent comprehensive MDS was dated 5/13/19 and no comprehensive MDS 3.0 assessment was completed with 14 days of the initiation of hospice services. On 2/12/20 at 12:00 PM, in an interview with the Nurse Informatics Specialist, Registered Nurse, the surveyor confirmed a significant change of condition MDS 3.0 was not completed. 2. On review of Resident #39's clinical record, a surveyor noted the resident was receiving hospice services, initiated on 8/5/19. On further review, the surveyor noted the most recent Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS 3.0) comprehensive assessment was completed on 1/3/20, which did not indicate receipt of hospice services, and no comprehensive MDS 3.0 was completed within the 14 days of initiation of hospice services. On 2/12/20 at 11:00 AM., a surveyor confirmed the finding in an interview with the Director of Nursing. 2020-09-01