cms_NV: 43

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
43	LEFA SERAN SNF	295001	1ST AND A ST/ PO BOX 1510	HAWTHORNE	NV	89415	2017-10-12	323	D	0	1	Z18S11	Based on observation, interview and record review, the facility failed to provide an environment free from fire hazards and failed to protect residents from biohazard materials. Findings include: On 10/10/17 at 3:25 PM during a tour of the facility, a metal trash can lined with a plastic bag and contained paper bags, ashes, and cigarette butts, was observed in the southwest area of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) exit-patio within a designated smoking area. On 10/11/17 at 3:45 PM, the trash can lined with plastic bag and contained cigarette butts and ashes was observed in the residents' smoke shed area. The Director of Nursing (DON) confirmed the trash can had a plastic bag with holes from the cigarettes and contained paper cups, cigarettes butts and ashes. The DON verbalized the trash can was a fire hazard. The facility policy titled Fire Safety-Smoking Policy, revised 04/02/12, indicated waste baskets shall be made of noncombustible materials and shall not be used as an ashtray. On 10/09/17 through 10/12/17, multiple observations of a storage area for the biohazard materials were conducted. The door to the storage area for biohazard materials did not have a lock. A red biohazard container inside the storage area was also unsecured. On 10/9/17 in the afternoon, Janitorial staff confirmed the door to the biohazard storage area did not have a lock and residents could have accessed the room. On 10/12/17 in the morning, a Registered Nurse (RN) indicated the door should probably have a lock, although not much biohazard was acquired on the unit, there was no barrier that would prevent residents from accessing the storage area and container.	2020-09-01