Orchard Park Health Care: Dialysis Safety Cited - WA
The dialysis citation, recorded under a regulatory category covering quality of life and care, documented that the facility failed to provide safe and appropriate dialysis services to a resident who required them. Inspectors classified the violation as isolated, meaning it involved one resident rather than a pattern across the population. They did not document actual harm. They did document potential for more than minimal harm.
That distinction matters less than it might appear. Dialysis is not a treatment with much margin for error. Patients who depend on it have kidneys that no longer filter waste and fluid from their blood. Miss a session, cut one short, or manage it improperly, and toxins accumulate. Fluid builds. The consequences move fast.
The inspection took place June 1. The facility submitted a plan of correction and reported the problem fixed by June 19.
What the plan of correction contains, what specifically went wrong with the dialysis care, and whether the resident involved experienced any symptoms as a result are not detailed in the inspection record. The citation describes the category of failure. It does not describe the moment.
Orchard Park is a long-term care and rehabilitation facility in Tacoma. The 28 deficiencies cited during this inspection span the quality of life and care category, which covers some of the most direct obligations a nursing home carries toward the people living inside it. A single inspection producing 28 citations is a significant finding. Most nursing homes receive deficiencies during standard inspections, but the volume here places this facility well above typical inspection outcomes.
The dialysis deficiency was not among the most severe classifications available to inspectors. Federal health inspections use a tiered system, and this citation landed at scope and severity level D, the entry point for violations that caused no actual harm but carried real potential for it. The more serious designations, those involving actual harm or immediate jeopardy to residents, were not applied here, at least not to this particular finding.
Whether other citations from the same inspection carried higher severity levels is not reflected in the available record for this deficiency.
What is clear is that someone living at Orchard Park needed dialysis, and inspectors determined the facility did not handle that need safely. That person's name does not appear in the inspection summary. Their condition, their age, how long they had been a resident, whether they noticed anything wrong during their treatment, none of that is recorded here.
Nursing homes that accept residents requiring dialysis typically coordinate with outside dialysis providers, transport residents to dialysis centers on a set schedule, or arrange for in-facility treatment. A breakdown can happen at any point in that chain, in the scheduling, the transport, the monitoring, the communication between the facility and the dialysis provider. The inspection record does not specify where the failure occurred at Orchard Park.
The facility's plan of correction was accepted, and the reported correction date of June 19 came 18 days after the inspection. Whether follow-up inspections have been scheduled or conducted is not part of this record.
Twenty-eight deficiencies in one visit. One of them involved a resident whose life depends on a machine doing the work their kidneys no longer can. The facility says it fixed the problem. The inspection record closes there, with a correction date and an open question about what those 18 days looked like for the person who needed the care.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Orchard Park Health Care & Rehab Center from 2026-06-01 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Last verified: August 2, 2026 · Our methodology
ORCHARD PARK HEALTH CARE & REHAB CENTER in TACOMA, WA was cited for violations during a health inspection on June 1, 2026.
Inspectors classified the violation as isolated, meaning it involved one resident rather than a pattern across the population.
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.