Place At Martinez: Antibiotic Monitoring Gaps - GA
The resident, identified in the inspection report as Resident 50, was on hospice when a hospice physician ordered Macrobid as a prophylactic. The facility's own infection control nurse acknowledged that determining whether a UTI warranted treatment required a urine culture and sensitivity test. Resident 50 never had one. The infection report form completed for her showed none of the required criteria for a UTI had been checked off.
The infection control nurse told inspectors that Resident 50 hadn't received a urinalysis because she was on hospice, and that the hospice physician initiated the antibiotic order prophylactically. "Hospice does that a lot," she said. She was unsure whether she had ever educated the hospice physician about antibiotic stewardship criteria. She did not know whether the facility's medical director had either.
The medical director was direct about what he knew. He told inspectors the hospice physician managed all care for residents on hospice independently, that "the hospice takes the patients as their own, they do what they want to do," and that the hospice did not permit facility physicians to oversee that care. He said his own expectation, even for hospice patients, was to obtain a urine culture before starting antibiotics. He acknowledged exceptions existed when a urine sample was impossible to collect, but called that rare.
Then he said the quiet part plainly: the hospice physician "typically treated residents on hospice with antibiotics without first ordering a UA/CS." He knew it. "This was the way the hospice physician practiced," he told inspectors, "but he did not practice that way, and it was not the way it should be done."
Nobody had done anything about it.
Inspectors found no documentation that the physician was ever notified that Resident 50's symptoms didn't meet the criteria for antibiotic treatment, and no recorded rationale for continuing the medication.
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PLACE AT MARTINEZ, THE in AUGUSTA, GA was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 21, 2025.
The resident, identified in the inspection report as Resident 50, was on hospice when a hospice physician ordered Macrobid as a prophylactic.
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