Marquis Tualatin Post Acute Rehab: Food Safety Failures - OR
When inspectors walked through the dining room and kitchenette at Marquis Tualatin Post Acute Rehab on the morning of May 18, 2026, that was the first thing they found. Then a small ice cream container with a plastic lid, also unlabeled, also undated. Then a dried brown substance smudged across the interior walls of the freezer. Then a spilled substance, hardened and stuck to the bottom shelf.
No one had thrown any of it away. No one had cleaned the walls or the shelf. The freezer was in use.
The administrator and the dietary manager were both present during the inspection tour. Both looked at what the surveyor found. Both acknowledged, according to the inspection report, that the unlabeled items needed to be discarded and the spilled substances needed to be cleaned.
That was their response: yes, it should have been done.
The inspection cited the facility for failing to store food in a sanitary manner. The finding covered one of one resident refrigerators reviewed, meaning every communal food storage unit examined had a problem. CMS rated the level of harm as minimal, or potential for actual harm, and noted that some residents were placed at risk for foodborne illness and contamination.
Unlabeled and undated food in a care facility is not a paperwork problem. When staff cannot identify how long food has been stored, they cannot determine whether it is safe to eat. Residents in post-acute rehabilitation settings are often recovering from surgery, illness, or injury, and their immune systems are not always equipped to fight off what a younger, healthier person might shake off in a day.
The dried brown substance on the freezer walls is a different kind of failure. That kind of residue does not appear overnight. It accumulates. It means the freezer was not being inspected, not being cleaned on any schedule that would have caught it before a federal surveyor walked in.
The dietary manager's job, in part, is to prevent exactly this. The administrator's job is to make sure the dietary manager is doing it. On May 18, both of them stood in front of a dirty freezer and told an inspector that yes, the food should go and the walls should be scrubbed.
There is no indication in the inspection report that either of them could explain how long the freezer had been in that condition.
Marquis Tualatin Post Acute Rehab operates at 19945 SW Boones Ferry Road in Tualatin, a suburb south of Portland. The facility serves residents in post-acute rehabilitation, a population that by definition arrived recently from a hospital and is, in most cases, medically fragile.
The inspection was completed May 22, 2026. The deficiency was the only one cited in this survey cycle.
A single deficiency at the lowest level of harm is, by the standards of nursing home oversight, a minor citation. No immediate jeopardy was declared. No pattern of neglect was documented across multiple residents or multiple visits. The facility's plan of correction is available through the nursing home or the state survey agency.
But the image that stays is not a regulatory category. It is a shared freezer, used by residents and staff, with someone's forgotten ice cream bar sitting open inside it, and a brown smear on the wall that had been there long enough to dry.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Marquis Tualatin Post Acute Rehab from 2026-05-22 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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MARQUIS TUALATIN POST ACUTE REHAB in TUALATIN, OR was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 22, 2026.
Then a small ice cream container with a plastic lid, also unlabeled, also undated.
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.