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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
69	AVERA MARYHOUSE LONG TERM CARE	435034	717 EAST DAKOTA	PIERRE	SD	57501	2017-05-24	371	E	0	1	43OZ11	Based on observation, interview, and policy review, the provider failed to ensure cleanliness of 3 of 4 refrigeration cooler fans and failed to ensure food sanitation practices were followed when food was being stored in 1 of 1 dry storage areas in the kitchen pantry. Findings include: 1. Observation on 5/22/17 at 4:13 p.m. of 2 of 2 walk-in produce and dairy coolers revealed several opened, undated, and unlabeled food items and several dirty cooler fans had not been maintained in a clean and sanitary manner: Small container of potato salad. A bag of lettuce. A bag of spinach. One dirty fan cover in the produce cooler was covered with a black fuzzy substance. Two dirty fan covers in the dairy cooler were covered with a black fuzzy substance. 2. Observation on 5/22/17 at 4:40 p.m. of the dry storage area in the kitchen pantry revealed a large bag of panko bread crumbs was opened. However it was not in a storage container and dated. 3. Interview on 5/23/17 at 10:50 a.m. with the supervisor of food services confirmed: The following food items should have been labeled and dated. -The container of potato salad. -The bag of lettuce. -The bag of spinach. Food items should have been stored properly. Cooler fans should have been on a cleaning schedule. Interview on 5/24/17 at 2:45 p.m. with the director of nursing, registered dietician, dietary manager confirmed: All opened food that was not in the original container should have been labeled and dated. All prepared food should have been labeled and dated. Cooler fans should have been on a routine cleaning schedule. Review of the provider's undated POLICY CLEANING FANS AND CEILING IN WALK IN COOLERS AND FREEZERS revealed: How to clean the fans. Did not list the schedule for cleaning. Review of the provider's revised (MONTH) (YEAR) Food Storage policy revealed: Dry storage foods must be covered and dated if container was opened and partially used. All foods should have been covered, labeled, and dated with labels on the sides of the containers, if the food was not stored in its original container. All opened products should have been dated. Review of the provider's revised (MONTH) (YEAR) Leftover Use and Shelf Life of Potentially Hazardous Foods policy revealed: Ready-to-eat potentially hazardous food prepared and packaged by a food processing plant shall be marked to indicate the date by which the food must be consumed. *The product must be consumed or discarded seven days after the original package is opened.	2020-09-01