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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
63 DAMAS HOSPITAL SNF 405023 2213 PONCE BY PASS PONCE PR 717 2018-07-27 655 D 0 1 Z15R11 Based on interviews and record review, the facility failed to provide the resident with a written summary of their baseline care plan. This affected one of 12 residents (Resident (R)56) who did not receive a written summary of their baseline care plan. Findings include: On 07/24/18 at 1:14 PM, R56 was interviewed concerning her admission to the facility. The resident stated the staff had verbally reviewed her baseline care plan and the services she would be receiving while she was in the facility. R56 stated she did sign and acknowledge she was given a verbal summary of her care plan. She also stated she was not given a written copy of the baseline care plan. Review of R56's medical record revealed on 07/13/18 the resident had signed she was verbally given a summary of her baseline care plan. There was no evidence in the resident's record she was given a copy of the baseline care plan. In an interview with the Director of Nursing (DON) on 07/26/18 at 10:56 AM, the DON stated the staff review the admission care plans with the residents, have the resident sign the care plan, and will give them a copy if they ask for one. She also stated they do not have a policy/procedure for providing each resident with a copy of their baseline care plan. 2020-09-01