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70.24.400 | Funding for office on AIDS—Center for AIDS education—Department's duties for awarding grants. | (1) The secretary of health shall direct that all state or federal funds, excluding those from federal Title XIX for services or other activities authorized in this chapter, shall be allocated to the office on AIDS established in *RCW 70.24.250 . The secretary shall further direct that all funds for services and activi... |
70.24.420 | Additional local funding of treatment programs not required. | Nothing in this chapter may be construed to require additional local funding of programs to treat communicable disease established as of March 23, 1988.
[ 1988 c 206 s 919 .] |
70.24.430 | Application of chapter to persons subject to jurisdiction of department of corrections. | Nothing in this chapter is intended to create a state-mandated liberty interest of any nature for offenders or inmates confined in department of corrections facilities or subject to the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.
[ 1988 c 206 s 920 .] |
70.24.450 | Confidentiality—Reports—Unauthorized disclosures. | (1) In order to assure compliance with the protections under this chapter and the rules of the board, and to assure public confidence in the confidentiality of reported information, the department shall: (a) Report annually to the board any incidents of unauthorized disclosure by the department, local health department... |
70.24.901 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
70.26.010 | Findings—Intent. | The legislature finds that: (1) Pandemic influenza is a global outbreak of disease that occurs when a new virus appears in the human population, causes serious illness, and then spreads easily from person to person. (2) Historically, pandemic influenza has occurred on average every thirty years. Most recently, the Asia... |
70.26.020 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Department" means the department of health. (2) "Local health jurisdiction" means a local health department as established under chapter 70.05 RCW, a combined city-county health department as established un... |
70.26.030 | Local preparedness and response plans—Requirements. | (1) The secretary shall establish requirements and performance standards, consistent with any requirements or standards established by the United States department of health and human services, regarding the development and implementation of local pandemic flu preparedness and response plans. (2) To the extent state or... |
70.26.040 | Local preparedness and response plans—Consultation with public, private sector—Department to provide technical assistance and disburse funds. | (1) Each local health jurisdiction shall develop its pandemic flu preparedness and response plan based on the requirements and performance standards established under RCW 70.26.030 (1) and an assessment of the jurisdiction's current capacity to respond to pandemic flu. The plan shall be developed in consultation with a... |
70.26.050 | Plans to be submitted to secretary for approval, rejection—Funding—Preparedness and response activities. | Local health jurisdictions shall submit their pandemic flu preparedness and response plans to the secretary by November 1, 2006. Upon receipt of a plan, the secretary shall approve or reject the plan. When the plan is determined by the department to comply with the requirements and integrate the performance standards e... |
70.26.060 | Secretary to develop a formula for fund distribution—Requirements. | The secretary shall develop a formula for distribution of any federal and state funds appropriated in the omnibus appropriations act on or before July 1, 2006, to local health jurisdictions for development and implementation of their pandemic flu preparedness and response plans. The formula developed by the secretary s... |
70.26.070 | Secretary duties—Report. | The secretary shall: (1) Develop a process for assessing the compliance of each local health jurisdiction with the requirements and performance standards developed under RCW 70.26.030 (1) at least biannually; (2) By November 15, 2008, report to the legislature on the level of compliance with the performance standards e... |
70.28.005 | Health officials, broad powers to protect public health. | (1) Tuberculosis has been and continues to be a threat to the public's health in the state of Washington. (2) While it is important to respect the rights of individuals, the legitimate public interest in protecting the public health and welfare from the spread of a deadly infectious disease outweighs incidental curtail... |
70.28.008 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Department" means the department of health; (2) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of health or his or her designee; (3) "Tuberculosis control" refers to the procedures administered in the co... |
70.28.010 | Health care providers required to report cases. | All practicing health care providers in the state are hereby required to report to the local health department cases of every person having tuberculosis who has been attended by, or who has come under the observation of, the health care provider within one day thereof.
[ 1999 c 172 s 2 ; 1996 c 209 s 1 ; 1967 c 54 s 1 ... |
70.28.020 | Record of reports. | All local health departments in this state are hereby required to receive and keep a record, for a period of ten years from the date of the report, of the reports required by RCW 70.28.010 to be made to them; such records shall not be open to public inspection, but shall be submitted to the proper inspection of other l... |
70.28.025 | Secretary's administrative responsibility—Scope. | The secretary shall have responsibility for establishing standards for the control, prevention, and treatment of tuberculosis and hospitals approved to treat tuberculosis in the state operated under this chapter and chapter 70.30 RCW and for providing, either directly or through agreement, contract, or purchase, approp... |
70.28.031 | Powers and duties of health officers. | Each health officer is hereby directed to use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and immediately to investigate, all reported or suspected cases of tuberculosis in the infectious stages within his or her jurisdiction and to ascertain the sources of such infections. In carrying out such investigations,... |
70.28.032 | Due process standards for testing, treating, detaining—Reporting requirements—Training and scope for skin test administration. | (1) The state board of health shall adopt rules establishing the requirements for: (a) Reporting confirmed or suspected cases of tuberculosis by health care providers and reporting of laboratory results consistent with tuberculosis by medical test sites; (b) Due process standards for health officers exercising their au... |
70.28.033 | Treatment, isolation, or examination order of health officer—Violation—Penalty. | Inasmuch as the order provided for by RCW 70.28.031 is for the protection of the public health, any person who, after service upon him or her of an order of a health officer directing his or her treatment, isolation, or examination as provided for in RCW 70.28.031 , violates or fails to comply with the same or any prov... |
70.28.035 | Order of health officer—Refusal to obey—Application for superior court order. | In addition to the proceedings set forth in RCW 70.28.031 , where a local health officer has reasonable cause to believe that an individual has tuberculosis as defined in the rules and regulations of the state board of health, and the individual refuses to obey the order of the local health officer to appear for an ini... |
70.28.037 | Superior court order for confinement of individuals having active tuberculosis. | Where it has been determined after an examination as prescribed in this chapter that an individual has active tuberculosis, upon application to the superior court by the local health officer, the superior court shall order the sheriff to transport the individual to a designated facility for isolation, treatment, and ca... |
70.30.015 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Department" means the department of health. (2) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of health or his or her designee. (3) "Tuberculosis control" refers to the procedures administered in the co... |
70.30.045 | Expenditures for tuberculosis control directed—Standards—Payment for treatment. | Tuberculosis is a communicable disease and tuberculosis prevention, treatment, control, and follow-up of known cases of tuberculosis are the basic steps in the control of this major health problem. In order to carry on such work effectively in accordance with the standards set by the secretary under RCW 70.28.025 , the... |
70.30.055 | County budget for tuberculosis facilities. | In order to maintain adequate facilities and services for the residents of the state of Washington who are or may be suffering from tuberculosis and to assure their proper care, the legislative authority of each county shall budget annually a sum to provide such services in the county. The funds may be retained by the ... |
70.30.061 | Admissions to facility.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | Any person residing in the state and needing treatment for tuberculosis may apply in person to the local health officer or to any licensed physician, *advanced registered nurse practitioner, or licensed physician assistant for examination and if that health care provider has reasonable cause to believe that the person ... |
70.30.081 | Annual inspections. | All hospitals established or maintained for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis shall be subject to annual inspection, or more frequently if required by federal law, by agents of the department of health, and the medical director shall admit such agents into every part of the facility and its buildings... |
70.37.010 | Declaration of public policies—Purpose. | The good health of the people of our state is a most important public concern. The state has a direct interest in seeing to it that health care facilities adequate for good public health are established and maintained in sufficient numbers and in proper locations. The rising costs of care of the infirm constitute a gra... |
70.37.020 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context indicates or requires another or different meaning or intent and the singular of any term shall encompass the plural and the plural the singular unless the context indicates otherwise: (1) "Authority" means the Washin... |
70.37.030 | Washington health care facilities authority established—Members—Chair—Terms—Quorum—Vacancies—Compensation and travel expenses. | There is hereby established a public body corporate and politic, with perpetual corporate succession, to be known as the Washington health care facilities authority. The authority shall constitute a political subdivision of the state established as an instrumentality exercising essential governmental functions. The aut... |
70.37.040 | Washington health care facilities authority—Powers—Special fund bonds—Revenue bonds. | (1) The authority is hereby empowered to issue bonds for the construction, purchase, acquisition, rental, leasing or use by participants of projects for which bonds to provide funds therefor have been approved by the authority. Such bonds shall be issued in the name of the authority. They shall not be obligations of th... |
70.37.050 | Requests for financing—Financing plan—Bond issue, special fund authorized. | The authority shall establish rules concerning its exercise of the powers authorized by this chapter. The authority shall receive from applicants requests for the providing of bonds for financing of health care facilities and shall investigate and determine the need and the feasibility of providing such bonds. Whenever... |
70.37.060 | Bond issues—Terms—Payment—Legal investment, etc. | The bonds of the authority shall be subject to such terms, conditions and covenants and protective provisions as shall be found necessary or desirable by the authority, which may include but shall not be limited to provisions for the establishment and maintenance by the participant of rates for health services of the p... |
70.37.070 | Bond issues—Special trust fund—Payments—Status—Administration of fund. | All revenues received by the authority from a participant derived from a particular project of such participant to be applied on principal and interest of bonds or for other bond requirements such as reserves and all other funds for the bond requirements of a particular project received from contributions or grants or... |
70.37.080 | Bond issues—Disposition of proceeds—Special fund. | Proceeds from the sale of all bonds of a project issued under the provisions of this chapter received by the authority shall be deposited forthwith by the authority in qualified public depositaries in a special fund for the particular project for which the bonds were issued and sold, which money shall not be funds of t... |
70.37.090 | Payment of authority for expenses incurred in investigating and financing projects. | The authority shall have power to require persons applying for its assistance in connection with the investigation and financing of projects to pay fees and charges to provide the authority with funds for investigation, financial feasibility studies, expenses of issuance and sale of bonds and other charges for services... |
70.37.100 | Powers of authority. | The authority may make contracts, employ or engage engineers, architects, attorneys, an executive director, and other technical or professional assistants, and such other personnel as are necessary. It may delegate to the executive director or other appropriate persons the power to execute legal instruments on its beha... |
70.37.110 | Advancements and contributions by political subdivisions. | Any city, county or other political subdivision of this state and any public health care facility is hereby authorized to advance or contribute to the authority real property, money, and other personal property of any kind towards the expense of preliminary surveys and studies and other preliminary expenses of projects... |
70.38.015 | Declaration of public policy. | It is declared to be the public policy of this state: (1) That strategic health planning efforts must be supported by appropriately tailored regulatory activities that can effectuate the goals and principles of the statewide health resources strategy developed pursuant to chapter 43.370 RCW. The implementation of the s... |
70.38.018 | Statewide health resources strategy—Consistency—Waivers. | (1) For the purposes of this section and RCW 70.38.015 and 70.38.135 , "statewide health resource strategy" or "strategy" means the statewide health resource strategy developed by the office of financial management pursuant to chapter 43.370 RCW. (2) Effective January 1, 2010, for those facilities and services covered ... |
70.38.025 | Definitions. | When used in this chapter, the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings indicated. (1) "Board of health" means the state board of health created pursuant to chapter 43.20 RCW. (2) "Capital expenditure" is an expenditure, including a force account expenditure (i.e., an expenditure for a construction project... |
70.38.095 | Public disclosure. | Public accessibility to records shall be accorded by health systems agencies pursuant to Public Law 93-641 and chapter 42.56 RCW. A health systems agency shall be considered a "public agency" for the sole purpose of complying with the public records act, chapter 42.56 RCW.
[ 2005 c 274 s 332 ; 1979 ex.s. c 161 s 9 .] |
70.38.105 | Health services and facilities requiring certificate of need—Fees. | (1) The department is authorized and directed to implement the certificate of need program in this state pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) There shall be a state certificate of need program which is administered consistent with the requirements of federal law as necessary to the receipt of federal funds b... |
70.38.111 | Certificates of need—Exemptions. | (1) The department shall not require a certificate of need for the offering of an inpatient tertiary health service by: (a) A health maintenance organization or a combination of health maintenance organizations if (i) the organization or combination of organizations has, in the service area of the organization or the s... |
70.38.115 | Certificates of need—Procedures—Rules—Criteria for review—Conditional certificates of need—Concurrent review—Review periods—Hearing—Adjudicative proceeding—Amended certificates of need. | (1) Certificates of need shall be issued, denied, suspended, or revoked by the designee of the secretary in accord with the provisions of this chapter and rules of the department which establish review procedures and criteria for the certificate of need program. (2) Criteria for the review of certificate of need applic... |
70.38.118 | Certificates of need—Applications submitted by hospice agencies. | All certificate of need applications submitted by hospice agencies for the construction, development, or other establishment of a facility to be licensed as either a hospital under chapter 70.41 RCW or as a nursing home under chapter 18.51 RCW, for the purpose of operating the functional equivalent of a hospice care ce... |
70.38.125 | Certificates of need—Issuance—Duration—Penalties for violations. | (1) A certificate of need shall be valid for two years. One six-month extension may be made if it can be substantiated that substantial and continuing progress toward commencement of the project has been made as defined by regulations to be adopted pursuant to this chapter. (2) A project for which a certificate of need... |
70.38.128 | Certificates of need—Elective percutaneous coronary interventions—Rules. | To promote the stability of Washington's cardiac care delivery system, by July 1, 2008, the department of health shall adopt rules establishing criteria for the issuance of a certificate of need under this chapter for the performance of elective percutaneous coronary interventions at hospitals that do not otherwise pro... |
70.38.135 | Services and surveys—Rules. | The secretary shall have authority to: (1) Provide when needed temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants or organizations thereof, by contract, when such services are to be performed on a part time or fee-for-service basis; (2) Make or cause to be made such on-site surveys of health care or medical f... |
70.38.155 | Certificates of need—Savings—1979 ex.s. c 161. | The enactment of this chapter shall not have the effect of terminating, or in any way modifying the validity of any certificate of need which shall already have been issued prior to *the effective date of this act.
[ 1979 ex.s. c 161 s 15 .]
*Reviser's note: For "the effective date of this act," see RCW 70.38.915 . |
70.38.156 | Certificates of need—Savings—1980 c 139. | The enactment of this chapter as amended shall not have the effect of terminating, or in any way modifying the validity of any certificate of need which shall already have been issued prior to *the effective date of this 1980 act.
[ 1980 c 139 s 11 .]
*Reviser's note: For "the effective date of this 1980 act," see RCW ... |
70.38.157 | Certificates of need—Savings—1983 c 235. | The enactment of amendments to chapter 70.38 RCW by chapter 235, Laws of 1983 shall not have the effect of terminating or in any way modifying the validity of a certificate of need which was issued prior to *the effective date of this 1983 act.
[ 1983 c 235 s 11 .]
*Reviser's note: "the effective date of this 1983 act"... |
70.38.158 | Certificates of need—Savings—1989 1st ex.s. c 9 ss 601 through 607. | The enactment of *sections 601 through 607 of this act shall not have the effect of terminating, or in any way modifying, the validity of any certificate of need which shall already have been issued prior to July 1, 1989.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 608 .]
*Reviser's note: "Sections 601 through 607 of this act" consist of t... |
70.38.220 | Ethnic minorities—Nursing home beds that reflect cultural differences. | (1) The legislature recognizes that in this state ethnic minorities currently use nursing home care at a lower rate than the general population. The legislature also recognizes and supports the federal mandate that nursing homes receiving federal funds provide residents with a homelike environment. The legislature find... |
70.38.230 | Residential hospice care centers—Defined—Change in bed capacity—Applicability of chapter. | (1) A change in bed capacity at a residential hospice care center shall not be subject to certificate of need review under this chapter if the department determined prior to June 1994 that the construction, development, or other establishment of the residential hospice care center was not subject to certificate of need... |
70.38.250 | Redistribution and addition of beds—Determination. | (1) The need for projects identified in *RCW 70.38.240 shall be determined using the individual planning area's estimated nursing home bed need ratio and includes but is not limited to the following criteria: (a) The current capacity of nursing homes and other long-term care services; (b) The occupancy rates of nursing... |
70.38.260 | Certain hospitals not subject to certificate of need requirements for the addition of the number of new psychiatric beds.(Expires June 30, 2029.) | (1) For a grant awarded during fiscal years 2018 and 2019 by the department of commerce under this section, hospitals licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW and behavioral health hospitals licensed as establishments under chapter 71.12 RCW are not subject to certificate of need requirements for the addition of the number of ... |
70.38.270 | Psychiatric beds added under RCW70.38.260.(Expires June 30, 2029.) | (1) New psychiatric beds added under RCW 70.38.260 must remain psychiatric beds unless a certificate of need is granted to change their use or the hospital or psychiatric hospital voluntarily reduces its licensed capacity. (2) This section expires June 30, 2029.
[ 2024 c 165 s 3 ; 2015 3rd sp.s. c 22 s 3 .]
Intent — Ef... |
70.38.280 | Kidney disease centers—Emergency certificate of need exemptions. | (1) Notwithstanding RCW 70.38.105 (4)(h), a kidney disease center may be granted an exemption to exceed its authorized number of dialysis stations during a temporary emergency situation upon approval of the department. (2) A temporary emergency situation is defined to include: (a) Natural disasters, such as earthquakes... |
70.38.905 | Conflict with federal law—Construction. | In any case where the provisions of this chapter may directly conflict with federal law, or regulations promulgated thereunder, the federal law shall supersede and be paramount as necessary to the receipt of federal funds by the state.
[ 1983 c 235 s 12 ; 1979 ex.s. c 161 s 16 .] |
70.38.914 | Pending certificates of need—1983 c 235. | A certificate of need application which was submitted and declared complete, but upon which final action had not been taken prior to *the effective date of this act, shall be reviewed and action taken based on chapter 70.38 RCW, as in effect prior to *the effective date of this act, and the rules adopted thereunder.
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70.38.915 | Effective dates—Pending certificates of need—1979 ex.s. c 161. | (1) *Sections 10, 11, 12, and 21 shall take effect on January 1, 1980. (2) Any certificate of need application which was submitted and declared complete, but upon which final action had not been taken prior to January 1, 1980, shall be reviewed and action taken based on chapter 70.38 RCW, as in effect prior to **the ef... |
70.38.916 | Effective date—1980 c 139. | *Sections 7, 8, and 10 of this 1980 act shall take effect January 1, 1981.
[ 1980 c 139 s 14 .]
Reviser's note: *(1) "Sections 7, 8, and 10 of this 1980 act" consist of amendments to RCW 70.38.105 , 70.38.115 , and 70.38.125 . (2) The effective date of those remaining sections of 1980 c 139 is June 12, 1980. |
70.38.918 | Effective dates—Pending certificates of need—1989 1st ex.s. c 9. | Any certificate of need application which was submitted and declared complete, but upon which final action had not been taken prior to July 1, 1989, shall be reviewed and action taken based on chapter 70.38 RCW, as in effect prior to July 1, 1989, and the rules adopted thereunder.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 609 .] |
70.38.920 | Short title. | This act may be cited as the "State Health Planning and Resources Development Act".
[ 1979 ex.s. c 161 s 22 .] |
70.40.005 | Transfer of duties to the department of health. | The powers and duties of the department of social and health services and the secretary of social and health services under this chapter shall be performed by the department of health and the secretary of health.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 248 .]
Effective date — Severability — 1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.... |
70.40.010 | Short title. | This chapter may be cited as the "Washington Hospital and Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act."
[ 1959 c 252 s 1 ; 1949 c 197 s 1 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 6090-60.] |
70.40.020 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: (1) "Secretary" means the secretary of the state department of health; (2) "The federal act" means Title VI of the public health service act, as amended, or as hereafter amended by congress; (3) "The surgeon general" means the surgeon general of the public health service of the United States; (... |
70.40.030 | Section of hospital and medical facility survey and construction established—Duties. | There is hereby established in the state department of health a "section of hospital and medical facility survey and construction" which shall be administered by a full time salaried head under the supervision and direction of the secretary. The state department of health, through such section, shall constitute the sol... |
70.40.040 | General duties of the secretary. | In carrying out the purposes of the chapter the secretary is authorized and directed: (1) To require such reports, make such inspections and investigations, and prescribe such regulations as he or she deems necessary; (2) To provide such methods of administration, appoint a head and other personnel of the section, and ... |
70.40.060 | Development of program for construction of facilities needed. | The secretary is authorized and directed to make an inventory of existing hospitals and medical facilities, including public nonprofit and proprietary hospitals and medical facilities, to survey the need for construction of hospitals and medical facilities, and, on the basis of such inventory and survey, to develop a p... |
70.40.070 | Distribution of facilities. | The construction program shall provide, in accordance with regulations prescribed under the federal act, for adequate hospital and medical facilities for the people residing in this state and insofar as possible shall provide for their distribution throughout the state in such manner as to make all types of hospital an... |
70.40.080 | Federal funds—Application for—Deposit, use. | The secretary is authorized to make application to the surgeon general for federal funds to assist in carrying out the survey and planning activities herein provided. Such funds shall be deposited with the state treasurer and shall be available to the secretary for expenditure in carrying out the purposes of this part.... |
70.40.090 | State plan—Publication—Hearing—Approval by surgeon general—Modifications. | The secretary shall prepare and submit to the surgeon general a state plan which shall include the hospital and medical facility construction program developed under this chapter and which shall provide for the establishment, administration, and operation of hospital and medical facility construction activities in acco... |
70.40.100 | Plan shall provide for construction in order of relative needs. | The state plan shall set forth the relative need for the several projects included in the construction program determined in accordance with regulations prescribed pursuant to the federal act, and provide for the construction, insofar as financial resources available therefor and for maintenance and operations make pos... |
70.40.110 | Minimum standards for maintenance and operation. | The secretary shall by regulation prescribe minimum standards for the maintenance and operation of hospitals and medical facilities which receive federal aid for construction under the state plan.
[ 1979 c 141 s 102 ; 1959 c 252 s 9 ; 1949 c 197 s 10 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 6090-69.] |
70.40.120 | Applications for construction projects—Diagnostic, treatment centers. | Applications for hospital and medical facility construction projects for which federal funds are requested shall be submitted to the secretary and may be submitted by the state or any political subdivision thereof or by any public or nonprofit agency authorized to construct and operate a hospital or medical facility: P... |
70.40.130 | Hearing—Approval. | The secretary shall afford to every applicant for a construction project an opportunity for a fair hearing. If the secretary, after affording reasonable opportunity for development and presentation of applications in the order of relative need, finds that a project application complies with the requirements of RCW 70.4... |
70.40.140 | Inspection of project under construction—Certification as to federal funds due. | From time to time the secretary shall inspect each construction project approved by the surgeon general, and, if the inspection so warrants, the secretary shall certify to the surgeon general that work has been performed upon the project, or purchases have been made, in accordance with the approved plans and specificat... |
70.40.150 | Hospital and medical facility construction fund—Deposits, use. | The secretary is hereby authorized to receive federal funds in behalf of, and transmit them to, such applicants or to approve applicants for federal funds and authorize the payment of such funds directly to such applicants as may be allowed by federal law. To achieve that end there is hereby established, separate and a... |
70.41.005 | Transfer of duties to the department of health. | The powers and duties of the department of social and health services under this chapter shall be performed by the department of health.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 249 .]
Effective date — Severability — 1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.70.920 . |
70.41.010 | Declaration of purpose. | The primary purpose of this chapter is to promote safe and adequate care of individuals in hospitals through the development, establishment and enforcement of minimum hospital standards for maintenance and operation. To accomplish these purposes, this chapter provides for: (1) The licensing and inspection of hospitals;... |
70.41.020 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms, whenever used in this chapter, shall be deemed to have the following meanings: (1) "Aftercare" means the assistance provided by a lay caregiver to a patient under this chapter after the patient's discharge from a hospital. The assistance may include, ... |
70.41.030 | Standards and rules. | The department shall establish and adopt such minimum standards and rules pertaining to the construction, maintenance, and operation of hospitals, and rescind, amend, or modify such rules from time to time, as are necessary in the public interest, and particularly for the establishment and maintenance of standards of h... |
70.41.040 | Enforcement of chapter—Personnel—Merit system. | The enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the standards, rules and regulations established under this chapter, shall be the responsibility of the department which shall cooperate with the joint commission on the accreditation of health care organizations. The department shall advise on the employment of per... |
70.41.045 | Hospital surveys or audits—Frequent problems to be posted on agency websites—Hospital evaluation of survey or audit, form—Notice. | (1) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section. (a) "Agency" means a department of state government created under RCW 43.17.010 and the office of the state auditor. (b) "Audit" means an examination of records or financial accounts to evaluate accuracy... |
70.41.080 | Fire protection. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2577-S.SL ) ***
Standards for fire protection and the enforcement thereof, with respect to all hospitals to be licensed hereunder shall be the responsibility of the chief of the Washington state patrol, through the director of fire protection, who shall adopt, after approval by the departmen... |
70.41.090 | Hospital license required—Certificate of need required—Participation in Washington rural health access preservation pilot. | (1) No person or governmental unit of the state of Washington, acting separately or jointly with any other person or governmental unit, shall establish, maintain, or conduct a hospital in this state, or use the word "hospital" to describe or identify an institution, without a license under this chapter: PROVIDED, That ... |
70.41.100 | Applications for licenses and renewals—Fees. | An application for license shall be made to the department upon forms provided by it and shall contain such information as the department reasonably requires which may include affirmative evidence of ability to comply with the standards, rules, and regulations as are lawfully prescribed hereunder. An application for re... |
70.41.110 | Licenses, provisional licenses—Issuance, duration, assignment, posting. | Upon receipt of an application for license and the license fee, the department shall issue a license or a provisional license if the applicant and the hospital facilities meet the requirements of this chapter and the standards, rules and regulations established by the department. All licenses issued under the provision... |
70.41.115 | Specialty hospitals—Licenses—Exemptions. | (1) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (a) "Emergency services" means health care services medically necessary to evaluate and treat a medical condition that manifests itself by the acute onset of a symptom or symptoms, including severe pain, ... |
70.41.120 | Inspection of hospitals—Final report—Alterations or additions, new facilities—Coordination with state and local agencies—Notice of inspection. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2577-S.SL ) ***
(1) The department shall make or cause to be made an unannounced inspection of all hospitals on average at least every eighteen months. Every inspection of a hospital may include an inspection of every part of the premises. The department may make an examination of all phases... |
70.41.122 | Exemption from RCW70.41.120for hospitals accredited by other entities. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2577-S.SL ) ***
Surveys conducted on hospitals by the joint commission on the accreditation of health care organizations, the American osteopathic association, or Det Norske Veritas shall be deemed equivalent to a department survey for purposes of meeting the requirements for the survey spec... |
70.41.125 | Hospital construction review process—Coordination with state and local agencies. | (1) The department shall coordinate its hospital construction review process with other state and local agencies having similar review responsibilities, including the department of labor and industries, the office of the state fire marshal, and local building and fire officials. Inconsistencies or conflicts among the a... |
70.41.130 | Administrative actions against license—Rules—Procedure. | (1) The department is authorized to take any of the actions identified in this section against a hospital's license or provisional license in any case in which it finds that there has been a failure or refusal to comply with the requirements of this chapter or the standards or rules adopted under this chapter or the re... |
70.41.150 | Denial, suspension, revocation of license—Disclosure of information. | Information received by the department through filed reports, inspection, or as otherwise authorized under this chapter, may be disclosed publicly, as permitted under chapter 42.56 RCW, subject to the following provisions: (1) Licensing inspections, or complaint investigations regardless of findings, shall, as requeste... |
70.41.155 | Duty to investigate patient well-being. | Any complaint against a hospital and event notification required by the department that concerns patient well-being shall be investigated.
[ 2000 c 6 s 2 .] |
70.41.160 | Remedies available to department—Duty of attorney general. | Notwithstanding the existence or pursuit of any other remedy, the department may, in the manner provided by law, upon the advice of the attorney general who shall represent the department in the proceedings, maintain an action in the name of the state for an injunction or other process against any person or governmenta... |
70.41.170 | Operating or maintaining unlicensed hospital or unapproved tertiary health service—Penalty. | Any person operating or maintaining a hospital without a license under this chapter, or, after June 30, 1989, initiating a tertiary health service as defined in *RCW 70.38.025 (14) that is not approved under RCW 70.38.105 and 70.38.115 , shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each day of operation of an unlicensed hospi... |
70.41.180 | Physicians' services. | Nothing contained in this chapter shall in any way authorize the department to establish standards, rules and regulations governing the professional services rendered by any physician.
[ 1985 c 213 s 26 ; 1955 c 267 s 18 .]
Savings — Effective date — 1985 c 213: See notes following RCW 43.20.050 . |
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