Spokane Health & Rehabilitation: Immediate Jeopardy - WA
The facility, located at North 6025 Assembly in Spokane, received the immediate jeopardy citation affecting many residents, the broadest category of resident impact that inspectors can assign. It means the problem was not isolated to one room or one resident. It touched the population of the building.
Immediate jeopardy is the highest level of harm that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services assigns during a health inspection. Facilities that receive it face potential fines, loss of Medicare and Medicaid funding, and mandatory correction plans that must satisfy federal reviewers before the designation is lifted.
The April inspection identified deficiencies tied to four separate regulatory tags, F572, F620, F657, and F867, covering areas that inspectors flagged as connected to the immediate jeopardy finding. The inspection report directs readers to those tags for the full account of what inspectors found. The underlying documentation, which runs to at least 112 pages, contains the resident-level detail behind each citation.
What the summary makes clear is the scale. Many residents were affected, not a handful, not one wing. The facility houses residents who depend on it for daily care, medication, meals, and medical oversight. When inspectors assign immediate jeopardy across a population that size, it reflects findings that could not be attributed to a single lapse or a single staff member's mistake.
Spokane Health & Rehabilitation is a Medicare and Medicaid certified skilled nursing facility. Residents living there include people recovering from surgery or illness, people with dementia, and people who have no other place to go. For many of them, the facility is not a temporary stop. It is home.
The inspection was conducted under standard federal health survey procedures, with inspectors reviewing records, observing care, and interviewing staff and residents over the course of the visit. The completed report carries a print date of August 8, 2026, suggesting the documentation process extended well beyond the inspection itself.
Facilities that receive immediate jeopardy citations are required to submit a plan of correction to the state survey agency. CMS publishes those plans alongside the inspection findings. Whether the conditions that triggered the April finding have been resolved, and how long it took to resolve them, is information the facility's correction plan would contain.
The state survey agency for Washington is the Department of Health. Residents and families seeking information about the specific nature of the violations, or the facility's response, can contact the agency directly or request the full inspection report.
What the record does not show, at least in the summary available, is what residents experienced during the period that gave rise to these findings. The names of residents who were affected, the specific care failures that inspectors documented, the staff members who were present or absent when something went wrong — that detail lives in the pages that follow the summary sheet.
Nursing homes in Washington that receive immediate jeopardy findings are among a small fraction of facilities inspected each year. The designation is not handed out for paperwork problems or minor procedural gaps. It requires inspectors to conclude that the harm was serious, that it was likely to occur or was already occurring, and that the facility had not acted to stop it.
Spokane Health & Rehabilitation had not, as of the inspection date, resolved the conditions to inspectors' satisfaction. The finding stood.
For the residents living at North 6025 Assembly that April, the inspection report is a document. For them, it was the place where they woke up that morning, waited for breakfast, and hoped someone would come when they pressed the call button.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Spokane Health & Rehabilitation from 2025-04-24 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
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SPOKANE HEALTH & REHABILITATION in SPOKANE, WA was cited for immediate jeopardy violations during a health inspection on April 24, 2025.
It means the problem was not isolated to one room or one resident.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.