cms_RI: 25

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
25	BRIARCLIFFE MANOR	415012	49 OLD POCASSET ROAD	JOHNSTON	RI	2919	2018-02-23	756	E	0	1	ZK5E11	NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on surveyor observation, record review and staff interviews, the pharmacy failed to report any irregularities to the attending physician, the facility's medical director, and the director of nursing for 1 non- sample resident observed during the medication pass (ID# 93). Findings are as follows: Record review of resident ID# 93's (MONTH) (YEAR) MAR indicated [REDACTED]. Surveyor observation on 2/21/18 at approximately 8:15 AM, during the medication pass on Unit 2, revealed an order on the (MONTH) (YEAR) Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. The Medication Aide (MA) was then observed administering a [MEDICATION NAME] 100 mg extended release capsule and a 50 mg chewable tablet to ID# 93. Surveyor record review of the pharmacy reports with the Registered Pharmacist (RPH) on 2/22/2018 at approximately 9:55 AM revealed that the pharmacy had failed to document the irregularity on a separate written report that is sent to the resident's physician, medical director and director of nursing. The report includes at a minimum the resident's name, drug and the irregularity identified by the pharmacist. In addition, the pharmacist stated the computer software system in place between the pharmacy and the facility did not highlight this irregularity and indicated this was a pharmacy system breakdown. 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