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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
17 GREENWOOD CENTER 415008 1139 MAIN AVENUE WARWICK RI 2886 2017-12-15 759 D 0 1 77YN11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on surveyor observation, staff interview and record review, it has been determined the facility has failed to ensure residents are free from a medication error rate of 5 percent or greater. Based on 26 opportunities, there were 2 errors involving 2 residents (ID#s 57 and 90) resulting in a 7.69 % medication error rate on 1 of 4 units observed during medication pass. These errors involved 1 employee. Findings are as follows: 1.) During surveyor observations of the morning medication pass on 12/12/2017 at 9:24 am with the unit nurse (Staff A), she administered [MEDICATION NAME] (Vitamin D) 1,000 units, 1 tablet to resident ID# 57. Record review for resident ID# 57 revealed a physician's orders [REDACTED]. 2.) Further surveyor observations of the morning medication pass on 12/12/2017, Staff A administered [MEDICATION NAME] (Vitamin B12) 1000 mcg to resident ID# 90. Record review for resident ID#90 revealed a physician's orders [REDACTED]. During an interview with Staff A on 12/12/2017 at approximately 12:00 pm, she was unable to provide an explanation as to why the medications were not administered as ordered by the physician. You are hereby formally notified that where the above-listed deficiencies also constitute non-compliance with applicable provisions of the Rules and Regulations for Licensing of Nursing Facilities they are deficiencies under State regulations and grounds for licensure sanctions. 2020-09-01