cms_WY: 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	SUBLETTE CENTER	535017	333 N BRIDGER AVE	PINEDALE	WY	82941	2017-02-02	226	E	0	1	W1N011	Based on review of facility investigation documentation, staff interview, and policy review, the facility failed to implement written policies related to reporting for 2 of 3 allegations of abuse or neglect (involving residents #20 and #30) reviewed. In addition, the facility failed to revise policies related to reporting to ensure compliance with federal regulations. The findings were: 1. Review of facility investigation documentation revealed the following: a. An allegation of verbal abuse by a staff member to resident #30 on 3/5/16 was not reported to Healthcare Licensing and Surveys (HLS) until 3/7/16. b. An allegation of neglect involving resident #20 which was dated 8/30/16 was not reported to HLS until 9/7/16. During an interview on 2/1/17 at 3:30 PM the administrator confirmed the dates of the notification to HLS for the two allegations. She stated she was out of the office when the written allegation involving resident #20 was received. She stated the staff person who handled the allegation involving resident #30 no longer worked in the facility, so she was unsure why it was reported late. 2. Review of the facility's policy Procedure to handle suspected abuse, neglect and misappropriation of funds (reviewed 12/2016) showed Allegations are to be reported immediately (within 24 hours) to the following agencies and actions taken to prevent recurrence: The Department of Healthcare Licensing and Survey . 3. During an interview on 2/1/17 at 3:30 PM the administrator stated she was unaware of new federal regulations for nursing homes effective (MONTH) 28, (YEAR). Specifically, she was not aware that allegations of abuse and other allegations involving harm were to be reported within 2 hours. She stated the facility's policies had not been updated.	2020-09-01