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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
27 BRIARCLIFFE MANOR 415012 49 OLD POCASSET ROAD JOHNSTON RI 2919 2019-12-27 759 D 1 1 IFE111 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on surveyor observation, record review, and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure that each resident's medication regimen is free of medication error rates of 5% or greater. Based on 30 opportunities for error, there were two errors involving two residents (ID #s 77 and 58) resulting in an error rate of 6.67%. Findings are as follows: 1. Record review revealed Resident ID #77 has a physician's orders [REDACTED]. Instructions on the card from the pharmacy indicate not to crush the medication. During the medication administration task on 12/19/2019 at 8:41 AM, Medication Technician, Staff A, was observed preparing Resident ID #77's medications, including the [MEDICATION NAME] ER, which she crushed and put into applesauce. The surveyor intervened prior to the administration of the medication when Staff A revealed that she was ready to administer the medication. During a surveyor interview with Staff A on 12/19/2019 at 8:48 AM, she acknowledged that she crushed the [MEDICATION NAME] ER and that the pharmacy instruction states that the medication should not be crushed. 2. Record review revealed Resident ID #58 has a physician's orders [REDACTED]. Instructions on the card from the pharmacy indicate not to crush the medication. During the medication administration task on 12/19/2019 at 9:08 AM, Medication Technician, Staff B, was observed preparing Resident ID #58's medications, including the [MEDICATION NAME] ER, which she crushed and put into applesauce. The surveyor intervened prior to the administration of the medication when Staff B revealed that she was ready to administer the medication. During a surveyor interview with Staff B on 12/19/2019 at 9:13 AM, she acknowledged that she crushed the [MEDICATION NAME] ER and that the pharmacy instruction states that the medication should not be crushed. On 12/19/2019 at 10:22 AM, the Director of Nursing Services was notified of the medication errors and revealed to the surveyor that she would expect that the Medication Technicians would not crush the [MEDICATION NAME] ER. 2020-09-01