Agility Health and Rehabilitation: Rights Violations - WA
The violation, classified under resident rights deficiencies, carries a scope and severity rating of D, meaning inspectors determined it was an isolated incident with no documented actual harm but with the potential for more than minimal harm to residents.
Inspectors have not received a plan of correction from the facility.
Resident and family groups exist for a specific reason. They give people in long-term care a structured, protected way to raise concerns, share experiences, and push back on conditions inside the building where they live, often full time, often without the physical ability to simply leave. When a facility fails to honor that right, the mechanism residents have to collectively advocate for themselves disappears. Whatever was happening at Agility Health that prompted the citation, the people living there had less of a voice because of it.
The inspection was a standard health survey, not a complaint investigation triggered by a specific incident. That matters. Standard surveys are scheduled, announced in advance, and conducted by trained inspectors who move through a facility systematically. Inspectors arrived and still found 13 deficiencies.
Thirteen is not a small number. A facility can have a bad day and catch a citation or two. Thirteen deficiencies documented in a single inspection suggests problems across multiple areas of care and operations, not a single lapse. The full list of what inspectors found at Agility Health has not been published in detail here, but the resident rights violation sits inside a larger picture of a facility that, on the day inspectors walked through, was falling short in more than a dozen ways.
The absence of a correction plan is its own problem. After a deficiency is cited, facilities are expected to submit documentation showing what went wrong, what they are doing to fix it, and when the fix will be complete. That process exists because a citation without a correction is just a piece of paper. As of the inspection record reviewed for this report, Agility Health had not submitted one.
Resident rights violations can read as bureaucratic on paper. The language is technical. The regulatory tag number, the scope and severity letter, the category heading — none of it sounds urgent the way a medication error or a fall sounds urgent. But the right to organize is not a formality. It is one of the few tools residents in a nursing facility have that does not depend on a staff member choosing to help them. A resident who is frail, or cognitively impaired, or afraid of retaliation, can sit in a room with other residents and family members and say what is happening to them. Or they are supposed to be able to.
At Agility Health, something got in the way of that. Inspectors found it significant enough to cite. The facility has not yet said what it plans to do about it.
University Place sits in Pierce County, south of Tacoma. Agility Health and Rehabilitation is one of many skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities serving the region. The people living there during the June inspection were, by definition, people who needed enough medical support that they could not manage at home. They were also, by law, people with the right to organize among themselves, to meet, to be heard. That right was not being honored.
The inspection closed with 13 deficiencies on the record and no correction plan submitted for the resident rights finding. The residents who live at Agility Health are still there.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Agility Health and Rehabilitation from 2026-06-09 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 5, 2026 · Our methodology
AGILITY HEALTH AND REHABILITATION in UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA was cited for violations during a health inspection on June 9, 2026.
Inspectors have not received a plan of correction from the 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.