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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
73	CENTRO MEDICO WILMA N VAZQUEZ SNF	405025	ROAD 2 KM 39 5 BO ALGARROBO	VEGA BAJA	PR	693	2019-05-15	880	C	0	1	K21011	Based on a recertification survey and observations and staff interview performed during the survey process from 05/13/19 thru 05/15/19, from 8:00 am thru 4:00 pm, it was determined that the facility failed to comply with accepted infection control precautions and standards of practice. Findings include: 1.A mechanism to ensure that facility maintain standard precautions during the management of ice to be used by residents , was not promoted not performed, accordingly with the following findings identified during survey procedures performed from 05/13/19 thru 05/15/19, from 8:00 am thru 4:00 pm, [NAME]On 5/13/19 at 8:00 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. true 5/15/19 at 8:00 am. till 4:30 pm. during the performed visual inspection on different resident's rooms and others areas of the skill nursing facility the following was found: 1. Residents rooms 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 122 and others areas corridors, offices and recreative areas of the skill facility was visit and it was observed dirty and deteriorate floor. 2. The designated area used for the personnel lunch located in front of the nurse station on 5/13/19 thru 5/15/19 during the recertification survey was observed the scale on the right side of the room and in the left side of the main entrance a resident food table was observed, on the top of this table a '' foam icebox with ice '' and near the foam icebox a stainless steel scoop place in the interior of a transparent small plastic bags '' was observed. On the lid of the ''foam icebox '' a sign indicating fridge for ice covers. The Infection Control Nurse (employee #8) was interview on 5/15/19 at 11:20 am and he said that '' foam icebox '' was used to maintain the ice use to supplement the bags used for cold compresses used for residents to manage the pain and swelling caused after surgery. 3. However, this type of foam icebox is not acceptable since the material with which it is made has pores and its use is definable. No evidence of policies and procedures for this foam icebox. No evidence of the cleaning and disinfection of this foam icebox and who is the personnel designated to supply the ice to the residents. The nurse supervisor (employee #2) said that the plastic icebox used for residents is in her office. The Infection Control Nurse removed the foam icebox immediately disinfected the plastic icebox and the scoop and placed a sign indicating the used of this plastic icebox. The facility failed to comply with accepted infection control precautions and standards of practice. 4. The main door was observed in poor condition dirty and deteriorate paint.	2020-09-01