cms_RI: 28

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
28 GRACE BARKER NURSING CENTER 415014 54 BARKER AVENUE WARREN RI 2885 2020-01-02 609 D 1 0 Q0QB11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on record review and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure that all alleged violations involving abuse, are reported immediately, but not later than 2 hours after the allegation is made, for 1 of 4 residents reviewed for abuse. (ID #1). Finding are as follows: Review of the facility policy titled Abuse Prohibition states in part: D. Identification and Reporting .Any instance of actual or suspected abuse .must be reported timely to the DNS (Director of Nursing) / designee .supervisor on duty and an incident report is to be filled out. The Department of Health .will be contacted of allegations of abuse .within 2 hours of the allegation if the events that led to the allegation involve abuse . Record review revealed Resident ID #1 was admitted to the facility in (MONTH) of (YEAR). [DIAGNOSES REDACTED]. A Quarterly Minimum Data Set Assessment was completed on 11/01/2019. This assessment revealed a Brief Interview for Mental Status score of 15 out of 15 indicating that the resident is cognitively intact. Further record review revealed a nursing note dated 12/14/2019 stating 6:30 am resident told med tech that CNA (certified nursing assistant)/ med tech (name) almost raped me . An interview was conducted with Staff A, on 01/02/2020 at approximately 2:20 PM, she was also the supervisor on duty at the time of the allegation. She was unable to provide evidence that this incident was reported to the state agency. An interview was conducted on 01/02/2020 at approximately 3:20 PM with the Director of Nursing. She stated that she would expect that an allegation of abuse be reported to the state agency immediately. 2020-09-01