A May 16 corrective action plan submitted by John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., a Stanford Medicine affiliate, was denied by the California Department of Health Care Services after finding that "not all of John Muir Health's proposed plans of correction adequately addressed the deficiencies," a spokesperson for the DHCS told Becker's.
The facility was required to submit a plan of corrective action after DHCS found nearly 50 deficiencies with its pediatric intensive care unit in May. Following the findings it temporarily stopped treating children in the unit who were part of the California Children’s Services program, a partnership between county health departments and DHCS. However, a John Muir Health spokesperson told Becker's it is continuing to treat patients in the PICU, and is working with DHCS to treat CCS patients on a case-by-case basis, at this time.
Now, in order to move toward compliance, the facility will work alongside DHCS "to finalize a corrective action plan that adequately addresses all of the deficiencies," the DHCS spokesperson said. "The John Muir Health pediatric intensive care unit admissions restriction will remain in effect until an approved CAP is in place and John Muir Health is notified by DHCS in writing that the restriction is lifted."
A spokesperson for John Muir Health shared the following statement with Becker's "We have not yet received a formal response from DHCS to the corrective action plan that we submitted. We look forward to hearing directly from them. Our team stands ready to work with DHCS to implement the corrective action plan based on their feedback or to make any appropriate refinements."
Editor's note: This article previously incorrectly cited that a quote was from a John Muir Health spokesperson. That was incorrect, the quote was from the California Department of Health Care Services and updates have been made as of 3:38 CT June 27 to directly reflect that and include an updated response from John Muir Health.