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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
22 RYDER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 405018 355 AVE FONT MARTELO HUMACAO PR 792 2017-05-04 469 F 0 1 ZOYB11 Based on a recertification extended survey, observational round, interview with the Infection Control Preventionist (employee # 7), administrative documentation related to pest control performed on 5/3/17 at 10:00 am it was determined that the facility failed to establish a pest control plan. Findings include: 1. During review of the pest control registry form from year (YEAR), it was observed that a kind of trap was placed by the fumigator on (MONTH) 2, (YEAR). The same action was written on (MONTH) 4, (YEAR). a. No explanation was found of what places the traps were put in the facility. No information was written related to the kind of trap they were installing according to the kind of pest that the fumigator has identified. 2. During interview with the Infection Control Preventionist (employee # 7) performed on 5/3/17 at 10:00 am related to the installed traps, she stated the following: That registry is kept by the Administrator. If the fumigator installs traps I do not receive the information until I see them when I perform the observational tour to residents' areas. I do not receive an official communication telling me that there are pest control planning that includes the installment of traps. The facility failed to share the pest control mitigation program with the Infection Control Preventionist in a manner that she can develop and monitor the pest control surveillance as part of the Infection Control quality plan. 2020-09-01