Western State Hospital
A psychiatric hospital in Tacoma, Washington 98498
9601 Steilacoom Boulevard SW, Tacoma, Washington 98498. (253) 582-8900.
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The short answer
Record last released by Washington State Department of Health on May 13, 2025.
- Not rated by Medicare: CMS rates only the providers it certifies, and this one isn’t Medicare-certified
- Not read what inspectors found: the state’s list doesn’t carry it
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean3
- Not read
- The file this site reads doesn’t carry what inspectors found, so nothing is counted here. It doesn’t mean the place has a clean record: the state’s own site may have its reports. Source: How this site reads each source.
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
Washington’s layer of licensed hospitals carries no inspection results, so this page can’t say what inspectors found. The Department of Health surveys hospitals; its records are requested from it.
Washington State Department of Health, Hospitals. Released May 13, 2025. Updated monthly.
How do patients fare?
- CMS rates only Medicare-certified hospitals, so no CMS rating is shown here; Washington publishes no rating in this list.
Is it licensed, or certified?
- Psychiatric hospital, licensed by Washington’s Department of Health.
- State forensic psychiatric hospital: for people committed by a court.
- Washington’s layer marks no certification, and CMS’s files of the providers Medicare certifies (Care Compare and the Provider of Services file) don’t hold it by its name in its city or its street, so it isn’t Medicare-certified. CMS’s files list only the hospitals Medicare certifies, so no CMS CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System., survey or inspection covers this one, and none is shown or compared.
Washington State Department of Health, Hospitals. Released May 13, 2025. Updated monthly.
Has the state acted against it?
- Washington’s layer carries no enforcement actions.
What do patients say about their care?
- Washington publishes no staffing levels in this list, and CMS’s staffing measures cover only certified hospitals.
Who owns it?
- This list doesn’t name owners.
How does it compare nearby?
- Not compared: CMS’s measures cover only the hospitals Medicare certifies, and this state’s list publishes no measure of its own to compare.
What the record doesn’t say
- Washington licenses its hospitals, and the Department of Health’s layer locates each one, but doesn’t say which Medicare certifies. This page is one CMS’s files don’t hold by its name, its street or its number, and that the check of Oct 20, 2026 found licensed only, not a campus of a hospital CMS lists: so no CMS rating covers it.
- CMS’s files list only the hospitals Medicare certifies, so no CMS star rating, survey or inspection covers this one, and none is shown or compared.
- Washington’s layer of licensed hospitals carries no inspection results, so this page can’t say what inspectors found. The Department of Health surveys hospitals; its records are requested from it.
- The Department of Health’s layer is updated now and then, not on a schedule (its source line gives the date of its data): a hospital licensed since isn’t in it.
Sources
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Washington State Department of Health, Hospitals.
Released May 13, 2025 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly. No licence stated (the item’s disclaimer only).
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Washington State Department of Health. Washington’s own record is on arcgis.com. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Oct 20, 2026.
From the hospital
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Replies
None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the hospital will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.
Paid listing
None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the hospital”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.