Deficiency Index

Vitas Healthcare Corporation of California

Walnut Creek, California · CCN 051770

355 Lennon Lane, Suite 150

18 federal deficiencies across 6 surveys, January 25, 2022 to February 19, 2025.

Deficiencies18

Excludes the inspector’s preamble, which is not a finding

Surveys6

Federal surveys with at least one deficiency

Condition-level1

Findings against a Condition of Participation — a compliance grade, not a measure of harm

What level the findings sit at

Condition-level15.6%
The agency was out of compliance with a federal Condition of Participation — a requirement it must meet to take part in Medicare at all.
Standard-level1794.4%
A requirement within a Condition of Participation. The Condition itself was not cited.

These are compliance grades, not harm grades: how deep in the regulation a finding sits, not whether anyone was harmed.

Who conducted the surveys

State Agency, CHAP.

Federal surveys are carried out by the state agency or a CMS-approved accrediting organisation.

Most-cited requirements

Survey record

Federal surveys of Vitas Healthcare Corporation of California
SurveyTypeDeficienciesCondition-level
Feb 19, 2025Complaint2—
Nov 7, 2024Complaint2—
Apr 19, 2024Initial6—
Sep 9, 2022Complaint41
May 26, 2022Complaint2—
Jan 25, 2022Complaint2—

In the inspector’s words

The complete written findings for this hospice, in the inspector’s own words.

Read all 10 findings in full →

CMS publishes written findings for 10 of the 18 deficiencies on this hospice’s record.

Hospice findings published by CMS on QCOR, covering surveys from January 25, 2022 to February 19, 2025. The inspectors’ written findings come from a single CMS survey-report extract.

Federal survey findings only. State licensure findings for hospices are not shown.

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