cms_ME: 93

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
93 ORONO COMMONS 205031 117 BENNOCH RD ORONO ME 4473 2019-07-31 604 D 1 0 UEYP11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on observation, record review and interviews, the facility failed to complete an assessment for the prior use of a restraint and failed to obtain a physician order [REDACTED].#10). Finding: On 7/30/19 at 11:35 a.m., a surveyor observed Resident #10 sitting on a pummel cushion in his/her wheelchair. On 7/30/19 during an anonymous interview with a staff member it was stated that the pummel cushion helps keep him/her in their chair. On 7/30/19 at 11:45 a.m. during an interview with the charge nurse it was stated that the chair cushion is to help remind him/her to stay sitting, it helps him/her sit up straight in the chair. I don't think we have an order for [REDACTED]. Documentation in Resident #10's clinical record did not indicate that the resident had a restraint in place. There was no evidence in the clinical record of an assessment prior to the application of the pummel cushion restraint. There was no evidence of a physician order [REDACTED]. On 7/31/19 at 12:45 p.m., in an interview with the surveyor, the Rehabilitation Manager, stated that Resident #10 was not assessed for the use of the pummel cushion and that nursing must have placed it in his/her chair. On 7/31/19 at 1:00 p.m. a surveyor confirmed during in an interview with the Center Nurse Executive that Resident #10 did not have an assessment nor an order for [REDACTED].> 2020-09-01