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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
10 ROYAL OF WESTERLY NURSING CENTER 415004 79 BEACH STREET WESTERLY RI 2891 2019-08-08 812 F 1 1 02UK11 > Based on surveyor observations and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to properly store, distribute, and serve food, in accordance with professional standards for food service safety, relative to the main kitchen and 2 of 2 kitchenettes. Findings are as follows: 1. Surveyor observation of the main kitchen on 8/5/2019 at 9:15 AM, in the presence of the Food Service Director (FSD), revealed the following: - 15 out of 15 blue, hard-plastic coffee cups were observed to have brown, scrapable matter on the inside of the cup. During a surveyor interview with the FSD, at the time of the above observation, he indicated that the coffee cups needed to be replaced. 2. Surveyor observation of the Mystic Wing Kitchenette on 8/6/2019 at 2:27 PM revealed the following: - The inside of the ice machine had an accumulation of pink matter, above where ice is dispensed. - A 1-quart container of[NAME]Ensure Plus (vanilla) was in the refrigerator, open and not dated. Manufacturer instructions indicate to use within 48 hours of opening. - Two containers of[NAME]nectar-thick apple juice, one container of[NAME]nectar-thick lemon water, and one container of[NAME]nectar-thick orange juice were in the refrigerator, open and not dated. Instructions on the container state to use within 7 days of opening. - The water dispenser had an accumulation of brown/black matter on the inside of both the room-temperature and cold-water spigots. 3. Surveyor observation of the Westerly Wing Kitchenette on 8/6/2019 at 2:47 PM revealed the following: - 9 out of 18 blue, hard-plastic coffee cups were observed in the cabinet with brown, scrapable matter on the inside of the cup. - There was one container of each of the following, open and not dated, in the refrigerator:[NAME]nectar-thick orange juice,[NAME]nectar-thick lemon water,[NAME]honey-thick lemon water,[NAME]honey-thick cranberry juice,[NAME]nectar-thick cranberry juice,[NAME]nectar-thick apple juice, and[NAME]honey-thick apple juice. Instructions on the container state to use within 7 days of opening. - A 1-quart container of[NAME]Ensure Plus (milk chocolate) and two 1-quart containers of[NAME]Ensure Plus (vanilla) were in the refrigerator, open and not dated. Manufacturer instructions indicate to use within 48 hours of opening. - The water dispenser had an accumulation of brown/black matter inside of the cold-water spigot. During a surveyor interview with the Director of Nursing Services on 8/7/2019 at 1:33 PM, she indicated that the Ensure should be discarded within 48 hours of opening. During a surveyor interview with the FSD on 8/6/2019 at 3:06 PM, he acknowledged that the water dispenser, ice machine, and coffee cups needed to be cleaned. Additionally, he acknowledged that the[NAME]thickened-liquids and Ensure containers were not dated when opened. 2020-09-01