PORT ANGELES — Crestwood Convalescent Center, a 101-bed facility at 1116 E. Lauridsen Blvd., is among 15 state nursing homes accused of providing poor-quality care in a lawsuit against its owner, Extendicare Homes Inc.
The class-action suit was filed Thursday in King County Superior Court on behalf of the late Lee Ann Steele and some 3,000 patients who’ve lived in Extendicare’s Washington state facilities over the last year.
Crestwood and other Extendicare homes “have a long record of excessive and repeated citations by the Washington Department of Social and Health Services for providing substandard care and care that violates the rights of residents,” said the plaintiffs’ attorney, Stephen Garcia of Long Beach, Calif.
Jared Elliott, Extendicare’s vice president of western operations, said in a statement on Friday that the company hasn’t had time to evaluate the suit.
But he added that because of state regulations, “there are approximately 189 requirements that each facility must meet . . . These deficiencies are typically isolated to just a few residents and do not impact most residents in the facility.”
