Olympic View Post Acute: Sanitation Failures Found - WA
That was one of several admissions inspectors collected on August 12, 2025, during a complaint inspection at the skilled nursing facility. What they found across four rooms in a single afternoon was a pattern of neglect that the facility's own administrator, after being walked through each space, confirmed was neither safe nor sanitary.
The tour began at 1:15 p.m. in the shower room on one of the facility's wings. The floor was covered in garbage: used gloves, paper towels, and wipes. Personal hygiene products, including body wash, shampoo, and lotions, were open and scattered around the room. The toilet had a brown ring on the inside with a piece of toilet paper hanging down into it. The shower drain had no cover. Above, an exhaust fan sat exposed in the ceiling, its cover missing and wires hanging down into the room where residents bathe.
Fifteen minutes later, inspectors entered a resident room being used as a storage space. The door was open. Inside were beds, wheelchairs, air mattresses, and mechanical lift devices. One air mattress lay on the floor, surrounded by dirt and dead insects. Near the door, two garbage containers sat with their lids ajar, bags of used incontinence products visible inside. A laundry container held bags of dirty clothes.
The housekeeping supervisor, identified in the report as Staff E, explained what had happened. The garbage and soiled linen containers were not supposed to be there. They belonged in a soiled utility room, but nursing aides had moved them out of the shower room because there wasn't enough space. When an inspector asked whether the equipment stored in that room was clean or dirty, Staff E said they didn't know.
At 1:40 p.m., inspectors reached the soiled utility room on the East wing. Oxygen masks and gloves were on the floor. The hopper, a sink designed for disposing of waste including feces, sat empty of water with dark brown rings coating the inside. And there, in the same room designated for soiled materials and waste disposal, were isolation carts stocked with clean gloves, gowns, and masks.
Clean protective equipment, stored where fecal waste gets disposed of.
The administrator, Staff A, confirmed this was wrong. Clean isolation supplies should not be in a dirty utility room. The garbage and soiled linen containers should not be in a resident room. The rooms inspectors had just walked through were not in safe or sanitary conditions. Staff A said all of this directly to inspectors.
The final stop was the shower room on the North wing, observed at 1:50 p.m. An electrical outlet sat uncovered, wires exposed.
The inspection cited the facility under F0921, which covers the requirement that nursing home environments be safe, easy to use, clean, and comfortable. The level of harm was classified as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting some residents. The citation references the risk of injury, cross-contamination, and decreased quality of life.
Cross-contamination is the mechanism by which bacteria and other microorganisms move from one surface or object to another. Storing clean gloves and gowns in a room used to dispose of bodily waste creates exactly that risk. So does an uncovered shower drain. So does equipment of unknown cleanliness sitting on a floor next to dead insects.
What the inspection captured was not a single lapse but a facility where these conditions existed simultaneously across multiple rooms on multiple wings, discovered in the span of 35 minutes on a Tuesday afternoon. The nursing aides had moved the waste containers because there wasn't enough space. The isolation carts ended up in the dirty utility room. The shower rooms weren't being cleaned. Nobody had checked.
The administrator walked through each room and agreed with what inspectors said about all of it.
Full Inspection Report
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Olympic View Post Acute in PORT ANGELES, WA was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 12, 2025.
That was one of several admissions inspectors collected on August 12, 2025, during a complaint inspection at the skilled nursing facility.
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.