Definitions of &quot;conditional-level deficiency&quot; and &quot;immediate jeopardy&quot; can be found at  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hospitalinspections.org&#x2F;qa-with-cms&#x2F;#10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hospitalinspections.org&#x2F;qa-with-cms&#x2F;#10</a><p>I can&#x27;t say Theranos&#x27;s comments about the matter even begin to  assuage the concerns this brings. Trying to pass off the immediate jeopardy fault in hematology (i.e. blood testing) as &quot;not apply[ing] to the whole lab&quot; is absurd. It&#x27;s like a restaurant saying that the board of health complaint that shut them down focused too much on the rat feces in the kitchen, and not enough on the well watered house plants in the dining room. It&#x27;s so tone deaf.