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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
78 SANDIA RIDGE CENTER 325032 2216 LESTER DRIVE NE ALBUQUERQUE NM 87112 2019-03-22 880 F 0 1 8F5T11 Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to demonstrate proper infection control practices as evidence by: 1. contamination of clean linens and resident supplies, from dust and debris on floor surfaces, 2. not placing a solid barrier (liner) on the bottom shelf of wire storage racks, 3. having items stored directly on the floor, 4. using cardboard boxes to store resident supplies These deficient practices have the potential to effect all 122 residents per the facility census provided by the Administrator on 03/18/19 resulting in; 1. Exposure of bugs and rodent droppings to residential supplies. 2. Contamination of resident supplies due to dirt, dust and debris being kicked up from floor surfaces. The findings are: [NAME] On 03/20/19 at 10:16 am, during a tour of Central Supply, observations were made of the following: 1. Supplies being stored on the floor in card board boxes. 2. Items being stored on the bottom shelf of the shelving unit, with no solid barrier that was too low to the floor. B. On 03/22/19 at 10:14 am, during an interview with the Director of Nursing (DON), she stated that she was not aware of the issues in Central Supply. She confirmed that their supplies are being stored on the floor and in cardboard boxes. She also acknowledged that the wire shelving units did not have solid bottoms and one of those shelving units was almost sitting on the ground (recommended 6-8 inches off the floor). C. Record review of the Storage 1.1 Environmental Services Policies and Procedures, revised on 11/01/07, indicated all shelves, storage racks, and platforms are not to be placed directly on the floor, stored items should be 18 below sprinkler head/ceiling, unless waiver is obtained from the licensing authority and cardboard boxes are emptied and removed from storage as they are received. 2020-09-01