cms_RI: 48

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
48 APPLE REHAB WATCH HILL 415015 79 WATCH HILL ROAD WESTERLY RI 2891 2019-10-04 943 C 1 1 II8Y11 > Based on record review and staff interview it was determined that the facility failed to provide training to their staff, that at a minimum includes abuse, neglect, exploitation, and misappropriation of resident property and dementia management. Findings are as follows: Record review of a listing of current staff revealed that the facility has 76 staff members. Record review of a sign in sheet for a dementia care in-service training dated 6/25/2019 revealed 12 signatures of staff members who attended the in-service, for a total of 15 percent of staff educated. Record review of a sign in sheet for a Resident Abuse and Neglect in-service training dated 6/20/2019 revealed 52 signatures of staff members who attended the in-service, for a total of 68 percent of staff educated. During a surveyor interview on 10/4/2019 at 2:34 PM with the Director of Nursing Services and the Corporate Nurse, they could not provide evidence that in-service training on abuse and dementia were provided to all staff members. 2020-09-01