Orchard Park Health Care: PASARR Screening Failures - WA
Orchard Park Health Care & Rehab Center was cited under a regulatory category covering resident assessment and care planning. The specific violation involved PASARR, a federal screening process designed to identify residents who have mental disorders or intellectual disabilities before or shortly after they are admitted to a nursing facility. The screenings exist for a direct reason: residents with those conditions are supposed to receive specialized services, and without the screening, there is no reliable way to know whether they are getting them.
Inspectors classified the violation as isolated, meaning it did not affect every resident in the building. They documented no actual harm. But they noted the potential for more than minimal harm, the threshold that triggers a formal citation.
That distinction matters less than it might sound. A screening that never happens cannot flag a need that goes unmet. By the time anyone notices the gap, the resident has already spent days or weeks or months without an evaluation that was supposed to happen at the start.
The PASARR screening failure was one piece of a much larger picture. Twenty-eight deficiencies in a single inspection is a substantial number. The inspection report does not detail the other 27 findings, but the volume alone signals systemic pressure on the facility's compliance infrastructure. One missed screening can be an oversight. Twenty-eight deficiencies across a standard health inspection suggests something operating closer to the edge of acceptable practice than most families touring the building would expect.
Orchard Park submitted a plan of correction and reported the PASARR deficiency resolved as of June 19, 2026, eighteen days after the inspection concluded.
What that correction looks like in practice, the inspection record does not say. A plan of correction is a facility's written promise to fix what inspectors found. Whether the residents who should have been screened were identified, evaluated, and connected to appropriate services, or whether the correction amounted to updating a policy binder and retraining a coordinator, is not captured in the citation.
The residents at the center of this violation are, by definition, among the more vulnerable people in the building. PASARR exists specifically because people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities were historically warehoused in nursing facilities without access to the psychiatric or developmental services they needed. The screening is the mechanism that is supposed to prevent that from happening again. When it doesn't occur, the resident who needed it most is the one least likely to ask why.
Orchard Park Health Care & Rehab Center is a skilled nursing facility offering rehabilitation and long-term care. Tacoma sits in Pierce County, one of the more populous counties in Washington state, with a nursing home population that includes a significant share of Medicaid residents, many of whom have limited ability to advocate for their own care or navigate a complaint process if something goes wrong.
The June 2026 inspection was a standard health survey, the routine federal oversight mechanism that is supposed to catch exactly this kind of failure before it compounds. It caught 28 of them.
For the residents who went without a PASARR screening, the correction date of June 19 marks when the facility says it fixed the process. It does not mark when, or whether, those specific residents were finally evaluated.
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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Data source: Official federal inspection data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Last verified: August 3, 2026 · Our methodology
ORCHARD PARK HEALTH CARE & REHAB CENTER in TACOMA, WA was cited for violations during a health inspection on June 1, 2026.
Orchard Park Health Care & Rehab Center was cited under a regulatory category covering resident assessment and care planning.
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.