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Heartwood Extended Healthcare provides compassionate skilled nursing and rehabilitation care in Tacoma, Washington, where experienced staff focus on helping patients recover and regain independence. Our medical team supports healing through personalized treatment plans.
Capacity
120 residents
Location
Tacoma, WA
Status
Listed in a public registry
1649 EAST 72ND, Tacoma, Washington 98404
From CMS Care Compare, the federal record every Medicare-certified nursing home is held to. Data as of September 1, 2026. Check it on Medicare.gov
At its most recent standard inspection, on March 30, 2026, state inspectors cited 26 health deficiencies (the Washington average is 15.8).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 57 minutes with each resident a day, below the Washington average of 4 hours 22 minutes.
Medicare fined Heartwood Extended Healthcare 3 times in the last three years, $319,101 in total.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 57 minutesBelow the Washington average |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 47 minutesBelow the Washington average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 43%Below the Washington average |
2 administrators have left the home in the past year.
81 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
June 24, 2026 · Complaint investigation · 2 citations
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
June 2, 2026 · Complaint investigation · 1 citation
Provide appropriate foot care.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.
Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
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.
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.
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
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.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
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 residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
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.
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
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.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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 that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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.
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.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
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 appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Provide each resident with a nourishing, palatable, well-balanced diet that meets his or her daily nutritional and special dietary needs.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.
Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
Provide a neutral and fair arbitration process and agree to arbitrator and venue.
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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.
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3 fines totaling $319,101 and 1 Medicare payment denial in the last three years.
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State inspectors visited on March 30, 2026 and cited 26 health deficiencies, 3 of them from complaint investigations. The Washington average is 15.8.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 57 minutes with each resident per day, including 47 minutes from registered nurses. 43% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Yes. Medicare fined Heartwood Extended Healthcare 3 times in the last three years, totaling $319,101.
Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying 3-day hospital stay — fully for the first 20 days, then with a daily copay. Long-term custodial stays are generally not covered.
A semi-private room averages about $7,900 per month nationally; private rooms cost more. Medicaid is the largest payer for long-term nursing home care.
Medicare rates nursing homes 1 to 5 stars on its Care Compare site. We don't repeat those stars here. Each nursing home page shows Medicare's underlying record instead: inspections, staffing and fines, with a link to check it on Medicare.gov.