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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
6 JEFFERSON DAVIS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ECF 255050 1320 WINFIELD STREET PRENTISS MS 39474 2019-09-19 625 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 notify the resident and/or resident representative of the facility policy for bed hold, for two (2) of six (6) hospitalization s reviewed, Resident #23, and Resident #30. Findings Include: A review of facility policy titled Bed-Holds and Returns, dated (MONTH) (YEAR), revealed Prior to transfers and therapeutic leaves, residents or resident representatives will be informed in writing of the bed-hold and return policy. Resident #23 Record review of a physician's orders [REDACTED].#23 was transferred from the facility to the hospital. Record review of Resident #23's medical record revealed no evidence of a bed hold letter delivered to Resident #23 or the Resident Representative. The facility failed to provide evidence of a documented bed hold letter for Resident #23. Res #30 Record review of a physician's orders [REDACTED].#30 was transferred from the facility to the hospital. Record review of Resident #30's medical record revealed no documented evidence of a bed hold letter delivered to Resident #30 or the Resident Representative. The facility failed to provide evidence of a bed hold letter for Resident #30. An interview on 09/17/19 at 12:00 PM, with the Social Service Director, regarding Resident #23 and Resident #30's transfers, revealed that she did not know of any transfer/bed hold letter that the facility mailed to the Resident Representative when the resident was transferred to the hospital. An interview on 09/17/19 at 1:25 PM, with the Director of Nursing (DON), regarding Resident #23 and Resident #30's transfers, revealed there was no documented transfer/bed hold sheet for the residents for when they went out of the facility to the hospital. The DON stated, We don't have any written transfer/bed hold letters that were given to the resident or mailed to the Resident Representative. We don't have proof we mailed anything. 2020-09-01