cms_ME: 83

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
83	ORONO COMMONS	205031	117 BENNOCH RD	ORONO	ME	4473	2018-02-13	761	D	1	0	6TZZ11	> Based on record review, employee written statements and interviews the facility failed to ensure that a topical medication was secure and inaccessible to 1 of 4 Residents reviewed for quality of care. (#1) Finding: On the evening of 1/10/18 a medication cup with Z-guard (an ointment with petroleum jelly and zinc oxide used to protect the skin) was left unattended in Resident #1's room. Resident #1 ingested a small amount of the contents thinking it was a medication for him/her to drink. On 2/6/18 at 12:15 p.m., in an interview with the Registered Nurse, Unit Manager, the surveyor confirmed that the medication was left unsecured and unattended in Resident #1's room and Resident #1 attempted to drink the z-guard thinking it was a medication intended to be ingested. No ill effect was noted to the Resident.	2020-09-01