Agility Health and Rehabilitation: ROM Care Failures - WA
The citation at Agility Health and Rehabilitation covered what inspectors classified as a quality of life and care deficiency, specifically the failure to provide appropriate care to maintain or improve range of motion and mobility for residents, unless a documented medical reason justified any decline. Inspectors rated the violation at scope and severity level D, meaning it was isolated and caused no documented actual harm, but carried the potential for more than minimal harm.
That distinction matters in a rehabilitation setting. Patients arrive at facilities like Agility precisely because they need help recovering movement, rebuilding strength, preventing the kind of stiffness and contracture that can become permanent. When that care falls short, the consequences are not always visible in the moment. They accumulate.
The inspection was conducted on June 9, 2026, as part of a standard health survey. Thirteen deficiencies in total came out of that survey. The range of motion finding was one piece of a larger picture inspectors documented that day.
What makes the situation more difficult to explain is what has happened since. As of the date this report was reviewed, the facility had filed no plan of correction for this deficiency. Not a partial plan. Not a draft. Nothing on record.
A plan of correction is the facility's formal response to an inspection finding, the document in which administrators acknowledge what went wrong and lay out specific steps to fix it, along with a timeline. Its absence does not mean the facility has done nothing internally. But it means there is no public record of any commitment to change, no timeline for when the care gap will be addressed, and no accountability mechanism in place for regulators to verify.
That is the situation for all 13 deficiencies cited during the June inspection, not just the range of motion finding. Across every category inspectors flagged that day, the provider has submitted no plan of correction.
Range of motion care is not a peripheral concern in a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. It is, in many ways, the core work. Residents who lose mobility due to inadequate repositioning, insufficient physical therapy follow-through, or missed exercises face a narrowing world. Joints that stiffen do not easily loosen. A resident who arrives after a hip replacement or a stroke with real potential for recovery can leave with less function than they came in with if the daily work of maintaining movement is skipped or inconsistently performed.
The inspection report does not name the residents affected, does not describe what specific care was missed, and does not detail how many people were involved. The level D classification indicates the finding was isolated rather than widespread, and inspectors documented potential for harm rather than actual harm. That is a meaningful legal and regulatory distinction. It is a less meaningful distinction to the resident whose shoulder has stiffened another degree, or whose knee has lost another few degrees of extension, while the paperwork sits uncompleted.
Agility Health and Rehabilitation is located in University Place, a city of roughly 32,000 people in Pierce County, just southwest of Tacoma. Families in that area who are choosing a short-term rehabilitation placement, or who already have a loved one at Agility, are now navigating a facility with 13 open deficiencies and no filed corrections.
The range of motion citation is not the most dramatic finding a nursing home can receive. There is no immediate jeopardy designation here, no documented injury, no allegation of abuse. But it points to something quieter and harder to see: the slow erosion of a resident's physical capacity, one missed session at a time, in a building whose name promises the opposite.
The facility has not said when, or whether, that will change.
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: July 31, 2026 · Our methodology
AGILITY HEALTH AND REHABILITATION in UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA was cited for violations during a health inspection on June 9, 2026.
That distinction matters in a rehabilitation setting.
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.