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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 JEFFERSON DAVIS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ECF 255050 1320 WINFIELD STREET PRENTISS MS 39474 2019-09-19 622 D 0 1 S8KJ11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on record review, staff interview, and facility policy review, the facility failed to convey to the receiving provider, the basis for the transfer from the facility for one (1) of six (6) residents with hospital transfers, Resident #3 Findings Include: Review of a statement on facility letterhead, dated 9/19/19, and signed by the Director of Nursing (DON) revealed,We do not have a policy and procedure that specifically addresses the information that is sent out with the resident to the hospital at time of discharge/transfer. Review of a document, provided by the facility, and signed by the DON, dated 9/19/19, revealed Sending residents to the ER- Transfer/discharge sheet once you fill it out in the computer (print). Record review of physician's orders [REDACTED].#3 was transferred from the facility to the hospital for evaluations. Record review of Resident #3's paper and computer chart revealed no documentation that a transfer summary containing Resident #3's medical status/ Resident Representative Contact information was sent to the receiving facility when Resident #3 was transferred to the hospital three (3) times. An interview on 09/17/19 at 1:25 PM, with the Director of Nursing (DON), revealed, We do not have a transfer summary that was sent to the hospital for Resident #3. We are supposed to send a transfer summary including the reason for transfer to the hospital, Medication Administration Record, [REDACTED]. 2020-09-01