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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
89 OAK HILL HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER 415027 544 PLEASANT STREET PAWTUCKET RI 2860 2017-12-20 759 D 1 0 MUG111 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** > Based on surveyor observation, record review and staff interview, it was determined that the facility has 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 2 errors involving 2 residents (ID #'s 71 and 84) resulting in an error rate of 6.67%. Findings are as follows: 1. Resident ID # 84 has a physician's orders [REDACTED]. During observation of the medication pass on 12/14/2017 at 6:40 AM, the nurse administered the breathing treatment 2 hours and 40 minutes after the scheduled time. 2. Resident ID # 71 has a physicians order dated 11/28/2017 for [MEDICATION NAME] 25 mg, give 50 mg by mouth three times a day .hold for systolic (blood pressure) less than 100 and heart rate less than 60. During observation of the medication pass on 12/14/2017 at 7:11 AM, the nurse administered the [MEDICATION NAME] without taking a blood pressure reading or obtaining a heart rate. Although a blood pressure reading was documented on the medication administration record, the surveyor was in the presence of the nurse from 5:55 AM until 7:38 AM and did not witness the nurse obtain a blood pressure or heart rate prior to administering the [MEDICATION NAME]. During an interview with the medication nurse immediately following these observations he was unable to explain why he had not taken the blood pressure or pulse prior to administration of the medication. 2020-09-01