Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma
Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma is a 2-star rated nursing home in Tacoma, WA with 81 beds. CMS sub-ratings: health inspections 2/5, staffing 4/5, quality measures 3/5.
The facility has 131 health violations on record. Federal fines total $10,472 across 2 enforcement actions. Most recent inspection: May 7, 2025.
Data synthesized from CMS.gov and Washington public inspection records. Reviewed by Christopher F. Nesbitt, Sr., NR-EMT & BU-trained Paralegal.
Inspection History Overview
Data current as of May 6, 2026 · Source: CMS Provider Data
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Fines and Penalties by Year
2022 1 penalties totaling $3,250
Fine
2017 1 penalties totaling $7,222
Fine
Health Violations by Year
2025 4 violations
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides drinks consistent with resident needs and preferences and sufficient to maintain resident hydration.
2024 1 violations
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
2023 20 violations
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.
Provide a neutral and fair arbitration process and agree to arbitrator and venue.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
2022 28 violations
Designate a qualified infection preventionist to be responsible for the infection prevent and control program in the nursing home.
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.
Provide appropriate foot care.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
2021 4 violations
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.
2019 32 violations
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
2018 28 violations
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
2017 14 violations
Protect each resident from mistreatment, neglect and misappropriation of personal property.
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents.
Develop and implement policies for 1) screening and training employees; and the 2) prevention, identification, investigation, and reporting of any abuse, neglect, mistreatment and misappropriation of property.
Allow residents the right to participate in the planning or revision of care and treatment.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provide adequate supervision to prevent avoidable accidents.
Let residents refuse treatment, refuse to take part in an experiment, or formulate advance directives.
Give the right treatment and services to residents who display physical or psychosocial problems adapting to changes in circumstances.
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents.
Allow residents the right to participate in the planning or revision of care and treatment.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provide adequate supervision to prevent avoidable accidents.
Ensure that each resident's 1) entire drug/medication regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; and 2) is managed and monitored to achieve highest level of well-being.
At least once a month, have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's medication(s) and report any irregularities to the attending doctor.
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents.
Provide necessary care and services to maintain or improve the highest well being of each resident .
Frequently Asked Questions About Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma
- What violations has Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma received?
- Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma has 131 health and safety violation(s) documented by CMS inspections. All violation data comes from official Medicare inspection reports and is updated regularly from government sources.
- What is the quality rating of Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma?
- Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma has a 2-star rating out of 5 from CMS. This rating indicates the facility may have quality concerns that should be investigated further. The rating is based on health inspections, staffing levels, and quality measures.
- When was Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma last inspected?
- Inspection reports are documented by state survey agencies and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Reports typically lag 2-3 months behind the actual inspection date. Visit the facility's full profile page for detailed violation information and inspection history.
- Is Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma safe?
- Safety at Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma should be evaluated based on multiple factors: the facility's CMS rating, recent violation history, and personal visits. We recommend reviewing the complete inspection history, speaking with current residents and families, consulting healthcare professionals, and visiting in person before making placement decisions.
- How do I contact Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma?
- Phone: (253) 474-8456. Address: 7411 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA. For visiting hours and admission information, call the facility directly.
- What services does Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma offer?
- Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma is a skilled nursing facility with 81 beds. The facility accepts Medicare and Medicaid. For specific services like rehabilitation, memory care, or short-term recovery, contact the facility directly.
- What are better facilities near Tacoma, WA?
- Compare Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma with other nursing homes in Tacoma, WA on our facilities page. Filter by star rating, bed count, and recent inspection results to find the best match for your needs.
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Editorial Standards & Data Oversight
Data Source: This report is based on official public inspection records from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Provider Data Catalog.
Editorial Process: Content generated using AI to synthesize complex regulatory data, then reviewed and verified for accuracy by our editorial team.
Professional Review: All content undergoes standards and compliance oversight by Christopher F. Nesbitt, Sr., Nationally Registered EMT & BU-trained Paralegal, using professional regulatory data auditing protocols.
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