cms_RI: 95

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
95 WEST SHORE HEALTH CENTER 415028 109 WEST SHORE ROAD WARWICK RI 2889 2018-07-09 761 E 0 1 DOH811 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on surveyor observation, staff interview and record review, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that medications were dated when opened in accordance with current accepted professional principles, and that expired medications are not administered for 1of 1 residents with expired eye drops, ( resident ID# 114) Finding are as follows: 1. Surveyor observation of the first floor north medication cart on 7/5/2018 at 1:00 PM, in the presence of the Medication Technician, revealed one bottle of [MEDICATION NAME] 0.1% eye drops for resident ID # 114, that were dated as opened on 5/16/2018, had a discard date of 6/15/2018 written on the label. Record review of the (MONTH) and (MONTH) Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. During an interview with the Medication Aide (Staff G) on 7/05/2018 at 1:00 PM she acknowledged that these eyes drops continued to be administered after the discard date ( (MONTH) 15,2018) and that the eye drops should have been removed from the medicine cart. 2. Surveyor observation of the first floor medication cart on 7/5/2018 at 12:50 PM revealed one [MEDICATION NAME] 1 ml vial opened with no date indicating when it was opened. The [MEDICATION NAME] was issued from the pharmacy on 2/09/2018. During an interview with Staff nurse F on 7/05/2018 at 12:50, she acknowledged that the [MEDICATION NAME] was not dated when opened, per facility policy/ protocol. 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