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70.41.190 | Medical records of patients—Retention and preservation. | (1) A hospital shall retain and preserve all medical records for a minimum period of 26 years from the date the record was created. A hospital may retain medical records on paper, microfilm, electronically, or on other media. (a) This subsection applies to: (i) Medical records created prior to July 27, 2025, and retain... |
70.41.200 | Quality improvement and medical malpractice prevention program—Quality improvement committee—Sanction and grievance procedures—Information collection, reporting, and sharing. | (1) Every hospital shall maintain a coordinated quality improvement program for the improvement of the quality of health care services rendered to patients and the identification and prevention of medical malpractice. The program shall include at least the following: (a) The establishment of one or more quality improve... |
70.41.205 | Public hospitals—Review of hospital privileges and quality improvement committee reports—Confidentiality. | (1) All meetings, proceedings, and deliberations of the governing body, its staff or agents, concerning the granting, denial, revocation, restriction, or other consideration of the status of the clinical or staff privileges of a physician or other health care provider as defined in RCW 7.70.020 , if such other provider... |
70.41.210 | Duty to report restrictions on health care practitioners' privileges based on unprofessional conduct—Penalty. | (1) The chief administrator or executive officer of a hospital shall report to the department when the practice of a health care practitioner as defined in subsection (2) of this section is restricted, suspended, limited, or terminated based upon a conviction, determination, or finding by the hospital that the health c... |
70.41.220 | Duty to keep records of restrictions on practitioners' privileges—Penalty. | Each hospital shall keep written records of decisions to restrict or terminate privileges of practitioners. Copies of such records shall be made available to the board within thirty days of a request and all information so gained shall remain confidential in accordance with RCW 70.41.200 and 70.41.230 and shall be prot... |
70.41.230 | Duty of hospital to request information on physicians, physician assistants, or advanced registered nurse practitioners granted privileges.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, prior to granting or renewing clinical privileges or association of any physician, physician assistant, or *advanced registered nurse practitioner or hiring a physician, physician assistant, or *advanced registered nurse practitioner who will provide clinical ca... |
70.41.235 | Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery—Discrimination based on board certification is prohibited. | A hospital that provides health care services to the general public may not discriminate against a qualified doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery licensed under chapter 18.57 RCW, who has applied to practice with the hospital, solely because that practitioner was board certified or eligible under an approved oste... |
70.41.240 | Information regarding conversion of hospitals to nonhospital health care facilities. | The department of health shall compile and make available to the public information regarding medicare health care facility certification options available to hospitals licensed under this title that desire to convert to nonhospital health care facilities. The information provided shall include standards and requiremen... |
70.41.250 | Cost disclosure to health care providers. | (1) The legislature finds that the spiraling costs of health care continue to surmount efforts to contain them, increasing at approximately twice the inflationary rate. The causes of this phenomenon are complex. By making physicians and other health care providers with hospital admitting privileges more aware of the co... |
70.41.300 | Long-term care—Definitions. | "Cost-effective care" and "long-term care services," where used in RCW 70.41.310 and 70.41.320 , shall have the same meaning as that given in *RCW 74.39A.008 .
[ 1995 1st sp.s. c 18 s 4 .]
*Reviser's note: RCW 74.39A.008 was repealed by 1997 c 392 s 530 .
Conflict with federal requirements — Severability — Effective da... |
70.41.310 | Long-term care—Program information to be provided to hospitals—Information on options to be provided to patients. | (1)(a) The department of social and health services, in consultation with hospitals and acute care facilities, shall promote the most appropriate and cost-effective use of long-term care services by developing and distributing to hospitals and other appropriate health care settings information on the various chronic lo... |
70.41.320 | Long-term care—Patient discharge requirements for hospitals and acute care facilities—Pilot projects. | (1) Hospitals and acute care facilities shall: (a) Work cooperatively with the department of social and health services, area agencies on aging, and local long-term care information and assistance organizations in the planning and implementation of patient discharges to long-term care services. (b) Establish and mainta... |
70.41.322 | Discharge planning—Requirements—Lay caregivers. | (1) In addition to the requirements in RCW 70.41.320 , hospital discharge policies must ensure that the discharge plan is appropriate for the patient's physical condition, emotional and social needs, and, if a lay caregiver is designated takes into consideration, to the extent possible, the lay caregiver's abilities as... |
70.41.324 | Discharge planning—Certain policies and criteria not required. | RCW 70.41.322 does not require a hospital to adopt discharge policies or criteria that: (1) Delay a patient's discharge or transfer to another facility or to home; or (2) Require the disclosure of protected health information to a lay caregiver without obtaining a patient's consent as required by state and federal laws... |
70.41.326 | Discharge planning—Construction—Liability. | Nothing in RCW 70.41.322 may be construed to: (1) Interfere with the rights or duties of an agent operating under a valid health care directive under RCW 70.122.030 ; (2) Interfere with designations made by a patient pursuant to a physician order for life-sustaining treatment under RCW 43.70.480 ; (3) Interfere with th... |
70.41.330 | Hospital complaint toll-free telephone number. | Every hospital shall post in conspicuous locations a notice of the department's hospital complaint toll-free telephone number. The form of the notice shall be approved by the department.
[ 2000 c 6 s 4 .] |
70.41.340 | Investigation of hospital complaints—Rules. | The department is authorized to adopt rules necessary to implement RCW 70.41.150 , 70.41.155 , and 70.41.330 .
[ 2000 c 6 s 6 .] |
70.41.350 | Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault—Development of informational materials on emergency contraception—Rules. | (1) Every hospital providing emergency care to a victim of sexual assault shall: (a) Provide the victim with medically and factually accurate and unbiased written and oral information about emergency contraception; (b) Orally inform each victim of sexual assault of her option to be provided emergency contraception at t... |
70.41.360 | Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault—Department to respond to violations—Task force. | The department must respond to complaints of violations of RCW 70.41.350 . The department shall convene a task force, composed of representatives from community sexual assault programs and other relevant stakeholders including advocacy agencies, medical agencies, and hospital associations, to provide input into the dev... |
70.41.365 | Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system—Participation by hospitals. | Hospitals licensed under this chapter shall participate in the statewide sexual assault kit tracking system established in RCW 43.43.545 for the purpose of tracking the status of all sexual assault kits collected by or in the custody of hospitals and other entities contracting with hospitals. Hospitals shall begin full... |
70.41.367 | Sexual assault evidence kit collection—Availability, plan, and notice requirements. | (1) By July 1, 2020, any hospital that does not provide sexual assault evidence kit collection, or does not have appropriate providers available to provide sexual assault evidence kit collection at all times, shall develop a plan, in consultation with the local community sexual assault agency, to assist individuals wit... |
70.41.370 | Investigation of complaints of violations concerning nursing technicians. | The department shall investigate complaints of violations of RCW 18.79.350 and 18.79.360 by an employer. The department shall maintain records of all employers that have violated RCW 18.79.350 and 18.79.360 .
[ 2003 c 258 s 8 .]
Severability — Effective date — 2003 c 258: See notes following RCW 18.79.330 . |
70.41.380 | Notice of unanticipated outcomes. | Hospitals shall have in place policies to assure that, when appropriate, information about unanticipated outcomes is provided to patients or their families or any surrogate decision makers identified pursuant to RCW 7.70.065 . Notifications of unanticipated outcomes under this section do not constitute an acknowledgmen... |
70.41.390 | Safe patient handling. | (1) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (a) "Lift team" means hospital employees specially trained to conduct patient lifts, transfers, and repositioning using lifting equipment when appropriate. (b) "Safe patient handling" means the use of eng... |
70.41.400 | Patient billing—Medical debt reporting prohibition—Application of consumer protection act—Exceptions. | (1) Prior to or upon discharge, a hospital must furnish each patient receiving inpatient services a written statement providing a list of physician groups and other professional partners that commonly provide care for patients at the hospital and from whom the patient may receive a bill, along with contact phone number... |
70.41.410 | Hospital staffing committee—Definitions.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | The definitions in this section apply throughout this section, RCW 70.41.420 , and 70.41.425 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Hospital" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 70.41.020 , and also includes state hospitals as defined in RCW 72.23.010 . (2) "Hospital staffing committee" means the commit... |
70.41.420 | Hospital staffing committee. | (1) By January 1, 2024, each hospital shall establish a hospital staffing committee, either by creating a new committee or assigning the functions of the hospital staffing committee to an existing nurse staffing committee. (2) Hospital staffing committees must be comprised of: (a) At least 50 percent of the voting memb... |
70.41.425 | Hospital staffing—Department investigations. | (1)(a) The department shall investigate a complaint submitted under this section for violation of RCW 70.41.420 following receipt of a complaint with documented evidence of failure to: (i) Form or establish a hospital staffing committee; (ii) Conduct a semiannual review of a staffing plan; (iii) Submit a staffing plan ... |
70.41.428 | Hospital staffing committee—Oversight. | By July 1, 2024, the department and the department of labor and industries must jointly establish a formal agreement that identifies the roles of each of the two agencies with respect to the oversight and enforcement of RCW 70.41.420 (4)(a) and (12) and 70.41.425 (1), (4), (5), (6)(b), and (7), as follows: (1) To the e... |
70.41.430 | Prevention and control of the transmission of pathogens of epidemiological concern—Policy adoption—Reporting—Definitions. | (1) Each hospital licensed under this chapter shall, by January 1, 2023, adopt a policy regarding prevention and control of the transmission of pathogens of epidemiological concern. The policy shall, at a minimum, contain the following elements: (a) A facility risk assessment to identify pathogens of epidemiological co... |
70.41.440 | Duty to report violent injuries—Preservation of evidence—Immunity—Privilege. | (1) A hospital shall report to a local law enforcement authority as soon as reasonably possible, taking into consideration a patient's emergency care needs, when the hospital provides treatment for a bullet wound, gunshot wound, or stab wound to a patient. A hospital shall establish a written policy to identify the per... |
70.41.450 | Estimated charges of hospital services—Notice. | Hospitals licensed under this chapter shall post a sign in patient registration areas containing at least the following language: "Information about the estimated charges of your hospital services is available upon request. Please do not hesitate to ask for information."
[ 2009 c 529 s 2 .] |
70.41.460 | Contract with department of corrections. | As a condition of licensure, a hospital must contract with the department of corrections pursuant to RCW 72.10.030 .
[ 2012 c 237 s 3 .] |
70.41.470 | Information to be made widely available by certain hospitals—Community health needs assessment—Description of community served—Community benefit implementation strategy. | (1) As of January 1, 2013, each hospital that is recognized by the internal revenue service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity must make its federally required community health needs assessment widely available to the public and submit it to the department within fifteen days of submission to the internal revenue service.... |
70.41.480 | Findings—Intent—Authority to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications—Definitions. | (1) The legislature finds that high quality, safe, and compassionate health care services for patients of Washington state must be available at all times. The legislature further finds that there is a need for patients being released from hospital emergency departments to maintain access to emergency medications when c... |
70.41.485 | Opioid overdose reversal medications—Distribution—Labeling—Liability. | (1) A hospital shall provide a person who presents to an emergency department with symptoms of an opioid overdose, opioid use disorder, or other adverse event related to opioid use with opioid overdose reversal medication upon discharge, unless the treating practitioner determines in their clinical and professional jud... |
70.41.490 | Authorization for certain transfers of drugs between hospitals and their affiliated companies. | (1) The legislature recognizes that in order for hospitals to ensure drugs are accessible to patients and the public to meet hospital and community health care needs, certain transfers of drugs must be authorized between hospitals and their affiliated or related companies under common ownership and control of the corpo... |
70.41.495 | Human immunodeficiency virus postexposure prophylaxis drugs and therapies—Policies—Coverage. | (1) A hospital must adopt a policy and have procedures in place, that conform with the guidelines issued by the centers for disease control and prevention, for the dispensing of human immunodeficiency virus postexposure prophylaxis drugs or therapies. (2) This policy must ensure that hospital staff dispense or deliver ... |
70.41.500 | Down syndrome—Parent information. | A hospital that provides a parent with a positive prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome shall provide the parent with the information prepared by the department under RCW 43.70.738 at the time the hospital provides the parent with the Down syndrome diagnosis.
[ 2016 c 70 s 9 .] |
70.41.510 | Pattern of balance billing protection act violations by hospital—Fines and disciplinary action. | If the insurance commissioner reports to the department that he or she has cause to believe that a hospital has engaged in a pattern of violations of RCW 48.49.020 or 48.49.030 or has violated RCW 48.43.732 , and the report is substantiated after investigation, the department may levy a fine upon the hospital in an amo... |
70.41.520 | Access to care policies for admission, nondiscrimination, and reproductive health care—Requirement to submit, post on website, and use department-created form. | (1) Every hospital must submit to the department its policies related to access to care regarding: (a) Admission; (b) End-of-life care and the death with dignity act, chapter 70.245 RCW; (c) Nondiscrimination; and (d) Reproductive health care. (2) The department shall post a copy of the policies received under subsecti... |
70.41.530 | Audio-only telemedicine—Facility fees. | A hospital that is an originating site or distant site for audio-only telemedicine may not charge a facility fee.
[ 2022 c 126 s 1 .] |
70.41.540 | Multistate nurse license—Conditions of employment. | (1) Beginning September 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, individuals that hold a multistate nurse license issued by a state other than Washington and are employed by hospitals licensed under this chapter shall complete any demographic data surveys required by the board of nursing in rule as a condition of employment. ... |
70.41.550 | Hospital at-home services. | (1) Hospitals subject to this chapter may provide hospital at-home services if they have an active federal program waiver prior to when the department adopts rules pursuant to this section. Hospitals that have an active federal program waiver and intend to operate hospital at-home services within Washington state shall... |
70.41.560 | Hospital price transparency—Publishing—Reporting. | (1) By July 1, 2027, hospitals shall publish all data and comply with all rules related to hospital price transparency pursuant to 45 C.F.R. Part 180, subparts A and B, as they existed on January 1, 2025. (2) Beginning July 1, 2027, hospitals shall submit the most recent machine-readable file containing a list of all s... |
70.41.570 | Pregnant persons—Provision of emergency services. | When providing emergency services, hospitals shall provide treatment to a pregnant person who comes to the hospital with an emergency medical condition that is consistent with the applicable standard of care for such condition or, if authorized by law, transfer the patient to another hospital capable of providing the t... |
70.41.900 | Severability—1955 c 267. | If any part, or parts, of this chapter shall be held unconstitutional, the remaining provisions shall be given full force and effect, as completely as if the part held unconstitutional had not been included herein, if any such remaining part can then be administered for the purpose of establishing and maintaining stand... |
70.42.005 | Intent—Construction. | The legislature intends that medical test sites meet criteria known to promote accurate and reliable analysis, thus improving health care through uniform test site licensure and regulation including quality control, quality assurance, and proficiency testing. The legislature also intends to meet the requirements of fed... |
70.42.010 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Department" means the department of health. (2) "Designated test site supervisor" means the available individual who is responsible for the technical functions of the test site and who meets the department... |
70.42.020 | License required. | After July 1, 1990, no person may advertise, operate, manage, own, conduct, open, or maintain a test site without first obtaining a license for the tests to be performed, except as provided in RCW 70.42.030 .
[ 1989 c 386 s 3 .] |
70.42.030 | Waiver of license—Conditions. | (1) As a part of the application for licensure, a test site may request a waiver from licensure under this chapter if the test site performs only examinations which are determined to have insignificant risk of an erroneous result, including those which (a) are approved by the federal food and drug administration for ho... |
70.42.040 | Sites approved under federal law—Automatic licensure. | Test sites accredited, certified, or licensed by an organization or agency approved by the department consistent with federal law and regulations shall receive a license under RCW 70.42.110 .
[ 1989 c 386 s 5 .] |
70.42.050 | Permission to perform tests not covered by license—License amendment. | A licensee that desires to perform tests for which it is not currently licensed shall notify the department. To the extent allowed by federal law and regulations, upon notification and pending the department's determination, the department shall grant the licensee temporary permission to perform the additional tests. T... |
70.42.060 | Quality control, quality assurance, recordkeeping, and personnel standards. | The department shall adopt standards established in rule governing test sites for quality control, quality assurance, recordkeeping, and personnel consistent with federal laws and regulations. "Recordkeeping" for purposes of this chapter means books, files, or records necessary to show compliance with the quality contr... |
70.42.070 | Proficiency testing program. | (1) Except where there is no reasonable proficiency test, each licensed test site must participate in a department-approved proficiency testing program appropriate to the test or tests which it performs. The department may approve proficiency testing programs offered by private or public organizations when the program ... |
70.42.080 | Test site supervisor. | A test site shall have a designated test site supervisor who shall meet the qualifications determined by the department in rule. The designated test site supervisor shall be responsible for the testing functions of the test site.
[ 1989 c 386 s 9 .] |
70.42.090 | Fees—Account. | (1) The department shall establish a schedule of fees for license applications, renewals, amendments, and waivers. In fixing said fees, the department shall set the fees at a sufficient level to defray the cost of administering the licensure program. All such fees shall be fixed by rule adopted in accordance with the p... |
70.42.100 | Applicants—Requirements. | An applicant for issuance or renewal of a medical test site license shall: (1) File a written application on a form provided by the department; (2) Demonstrate ability to comply with this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter; (3) Cooperate with any on-site review which may be conducted by the department pri... |
70.42.110 | Issuance of license—Renewal. | Upon receipt of an application for a license and the license fee, the department shall issue a license if the applicant meets the requirements established under this chapter. All persons operating test sites before July 1, 1990, shall submit applications by July 1, 1990. A license issued under this chapter shall not be... |
70.42.120 | Denial of license. | Under this chapter, and chapter 34.05 RCW, the department may deny a license to any applicant who: (1) Refuses to comply with the requirements of this chapter or the standards or rules adopted under this chapter; (2) Was the holder of a license under this chapter which was revoked for cause and never reissued by the de... |
70.42.130 | Conditions upon license. | Under this chapter, and chapter 34.05 RCW, the department may place conditions on a license which limit or cancel a test site's authority to conduct any of the tests or groups of tests of any licensee who: (1) Fails or refuses to comply with the requirements of this chapter, the rules or standards adopted under this ch... |
70.42.140 | Suspension of license. | Under this chapter, and chapter 34.05 RCW, the department may suspend the license of any licensee who: (1) Fails or refuses to comply with the requirements of this chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter; (2) Has knowingly or with reason to know made a false statement of a material fact in the application for a... |
70.42.150 | Revocation of license. | Under this chapter, and chapter 34.05 RCW, the department may revoke the license of any licensee who: (1) Fails or refuses to comply with the requirements of this chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter; (2) Has knowingly or with reason to know made a false statement of a material fact in the application for a ... |
70.42.155 | Limited stop services. | (1) The department may prohibit a specific category or categories of services within the medical test site as related to noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter or the standards or rules adopted under this chapter by imposing a limited stop service. This may only be done if the department finds that noncomp... |
70.42.157 | Cease and desist notices. | (1) The department may give written notice to cease and desist to any person whom the department has reason to believe is engaged in the unlicensed operation of a medical test site. (2)(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the requirement to cease and desist unlicensed operation is effective 20 days after t... |
70.42.160 | Penalties—Acts constituting violations. | Under this chapter, and chapter 34.05 RCW, the department may assess monetary penalties of up to ten thousand dollars per violation in addition to or in lieu of conditioning, suspending, or revoking a license. A violation occurs when a licensee: (1) Fails or refuses to comply with the requirements of this chapter or th... |
70.42.162 | Pattern of balance billing protection act violations by medical test site—Fines and disciplinary action. | If the insurance commissioner reports to the department that he or she has cause to believe that a medical test site has engaged in a pattern of violations of RCW 48.49.020 or 48.49.030 or has violated RCW 48.43.732 , and the report is substantiated after investigation, the department may levy a fine upon the medical t... |
70.42.170 | On-site reviews. | The department may at any time conduct an on-site review of a licensee or applicant in order to determine compliance with this chapter. When the department has reason to believe a waivered site is conducting tests requiring a license, the department may conduct an on-site review of the waivered site in order to determi... |
70.42.180 | Operating without a license—Injunctions or other remedies—Penalty. | (1) Notwithstanding the existence or use of any other remedy, the department may, in the manner provided by law and 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 to restrai... |
70.42.190 | Petition of superior court for review of disciplinary action. | Any test site which has had a denial, condition, suspension, or revocation of its license, or a civil monetary penalty upheld after administrative review under chapter 34.05 RCW, may, within sixty days of the administrative determination, petition the superior court for review of the decision.
[ 1989 c 386 s 20 .] |
70.42.200 | Persons who may not own or operate test site. | No person who has owned or operated a test site that has had its license revoked may own or operate a test site within two years of the final adjudication of a license revocation.
[ 1989 c 386 s 21 .] |
70.42.210 | Confidentiality of certain information. | All information received by the department through filed reports, audits, or on-site reviews, as authorized under this chapter shall not be disclosed publicly in any manner that would identify persons who have specimens of material from their bodies at a test site, absent a written release from the person, or a court o... |
70.42.220 | Rules. | The department shall adopt rules under chapter 34.05 RCW necessary to implement the purposes of this chapter.
[ 1989 c 386 s 23 .] |
70.42.900 | Effective dates—1989 c 386. | (1) RCW 70.42.005 through 70.42.210 shall take effect July 1, 1990. (2) RCW 70.42.220 is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1989.
[ 1989 c 386 s 25 .] |
70.43.010 | Applications for membership or privileges—Standards and procedures. | Within one hundred eighty days of June 11, 1986, the governing body of every hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW shall set standards and procedures to be applied by the hospital and its medical staff in considering and acting upon applications for staff membership or professional privileges.
[ 1986 c 205 s 1 .] |
70.43.020 | Applications for membership or privileges—Discrimination based on type of license prohibited—Exception. | The governing body of any hospital, except any hospital which employs its medical staff, in considering and acting upon applications for staff membership or professional privileges within the scope of the applicants' respective licenses, shall not discriminate against a qualified person solely on the basis of whether s... |
70.43.030 | Violations of RCW70.43.010or70.43.020—Injunctive relief. | Any person may apply to superior court for a preliminary or permanent injunction restraining a violation of RCW 70.43.010 or 70.43.020 . This action is an additional remedy not dependent on the adequacy of the remedy at law. Nothing in this chapter shall require a hospital to grant staff membership or professional priv... |
70.44.003 | Purpose. | The purpose of chapter 70.44 RCW is to authorize the establishment of public hospital districts to own and operate hospitals and other health care facilities and to provide hospital services and other health care services for the residents of such districts and other persons.
[ 1982 c 84 s 1 .] |
70.44.007 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter, the following words have the meanings indicated: (1) "Other health care facilities" means nursing home, extended care, long-term care, outpatient, and rehabilitative facilities; ambulances; facilities that promote health, wellness, and prevention of illness and injury; and such other facilities... |
70.44.010 | Districts authorized. | Municipal corporations, to be known as public hospital districts, are hereby authorized and may be established within the several counties of the state as hereinafter provided.
[ 1947 c 225 s 1 ; 1945 c 264 s 2 ; Rem. Supp. 1947 s 6090-31. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1945 c 264 s 1 now codified as RCW 70.44.005 .] |
70.44.015 | Validation of existing districts. | Each and all of the respective areas of land heretofore attempted to be organized into public hospital districts under the provisions of this chapter are validated and declared to be duly existing hospital districts having the respective boundaries set forth in their organization proceedings as shown by the files in th... |
70.44.016 | Validation of districts. | Each and all of the respective areas of land attempted to be organized into public hospital districts prior to June 10, 1982, under the provisions of chapter 70.44 RCW where the canvass of the election on the proposition of creating a public hospital district shows the passage of the proposition are validated and decla... |
70.44.020 | Resolution—Petition for countywide district—Conduct of elections. | At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose, the county legislative authority of a county may, or on petition of ten percent of the registered voters of the county based on the total vote cast in the last general county election, shall, by resolution, submit to the voters of ... |
70.44.028 | Limitation on legal challenges. | Unless commenced within thirty days after the date of the filing of the certificate of the canvass of an election on the proposition of creating a new public hospital district pursuant to chapter 70.44 RCW, no lawsuit whatever may be maintained challenging in any way the legal existence of such district or the validity... |
70.44.030 | Petition for lesser district—Procedure. | Any petition for the formation of a public hospital district may describe a less area than the entire county in which the petition is filed, the boundaries of which shall follow the then existing precinct boundaries and not divide any voting precinct; and in the event that such a petition is filed containing not less t... |
70.44.035 | Petition for district lying in more than one county—Procedure. | Any petition for the formation of a public hospital district may describe an area lying in more than one county, the boundaries of which shall follow the then existing precinct boundaries and not divide a voting precinct; and if a petition is filed with the county auditor of the respective counties in which a portion o... |
70.44.040 | Elections—Commissioners, terms, districts. | (1) The provisions of Title 29A RCW relating to elections shall govern public hospital districts, except as provided in this chapter. A public hospital district shall be created when the ballot proposition authorizing the creation of the district is approved by a simple majority vote of the voters of the proposed distr... |
70.44.041 | Validity of appointment or election of commissioners—Compliance with 1994 c 223. | No appointment to fill a vacant position on or election to the board of commissioners of any public hospital district made after June 9, 1994, and before April 21, 1997, is deemed to be invalid solely due to the public hospital district's failure to redraw its commissioner district boundaries if necessary to comply wit... |
70.44.042 | Commissioner districts—Resolution to abolish—Proposition to reestablish. | Notwithstanding any provision in RCW 70.44.040 to the contrary, any board of public hospital district commissioners may, by resolution, abolish commissioner districts and permit candidates for any position on the board to reside anywhere in the public hospital district. At any general or special election which may be c... |
70.44.045 | Commissioners—Vacancies. | A vacancy in the office of commissioner shall occur as provided in chapter 42.12 RCW or by nonattendance at meetings of the commission for sixty days, unless excused by the commission. A vacancy shall be filled as provided in chapter 42.12 RCW.
[ 1994 c 223 s 79 ; 1982 c 84 s 13 ; 1955 c 82 s 2 .] |
70.44.047 | Redrawn boundaries—Assignment of commissioners to districts. | If, as the result of redrawing the boundaries of commissioner districts as permitted or required under the provisions of this chapter, chapter 29A.76 RCW, or any other statute, more than the correct number of commissioners who are associated with commissioner districts reside in the same commissioner district, a commis... |
70.44.050 | Commissioners—Compensation and expenses—Insurance—Resolutions by majority vote—Officers—Rules. | Each commissioner shall receive ninety dollars for each day or portion thereof spent in actual attendance at official meetings of the district commission, or in performance of other official services or duties on behalf of the district, to include meetings of the commission of his or her own district, or meetings atten... |
70.44.053 | Increase in number of commissioners—Proposition to voters. | At any general or special election which may be called for that purpose the board of public hospital district commissioners may, or on petition of ten percent of the voters based on the total vote cast in the last district general election in the public hospital district shall, by resolution, submit to the voters of th... |
70.44.054 | Increase in number of commissioners—Commissioner districts. | If the voters of the district approve the ballot proposition authorizing the increase in the number of commissioners to either five or seven members, the additional commissioners shall be elected at large from the entire district; provided that, the board of commissioners of the district may by resolution redistrict th... |
70.44.056 | Increase in number of commissioners—Appointments—Election—Terms. | In all existing public hospital districts in which an increase in the number of district commissioners is proposed, the additional commissioner positions shall be deemed to be vacant and the board of commissioners of the public hospital district shall appoint qualified persons to fill those vacancies in accordance with... |
70.44.059 | Chaplains—Authority to employ. | Public hospital districts may employ chaplains for their hospitals, health care facilities, and hospice programs.
[ 1993 c 234 s 1 .]
Contingent effective date — 1993 c 234: "This act shall take effect on January 1, 1994, if the proposed amendment to Article I, section 11 of the state Constitution authorizing the legis... |
70.44.060 | Powers and duties. | All public hospital districts organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have power: (1) To make a survey of existing hospital and other health care facilities within and without such district. (2) To construct, condemn and purchase, purchase, acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, develop and regulate, s... |
70.44.062 | Commissioners' meetings, proceedings, and deliberations concerning health care providers' clinical or staff privileges to be confidential—Final action in public session. | (1) All meetings, proceedings, and deliberations of the board of commissioners, its staff or agents, concerning the granting, denial, revocation, restriction, or other consideration of the status of the clinical or staff privileges of a physician or other health care provider as that term is defined in RCW 7.70.020 , i... |
70.44.067 | Community revitalization financing—Public improvements. | In addition to other authority that a public hospital district possesses, a public hospital district may provide any public improvement as defined under RCW 39.89.020 , but this additional authority is limited to participating in the financing of the public improvements as provided under RCW 39.89.050 . This section do... |
70.44.070 | Superintendent—Appointment—Removal—Compensation. | (1) The public hospital district commission shall appoint a superintendent, who shall be appointed for an indefinite time and be removable at the will of the commission. Appointments and removals shall be by resolution, introduced at a regular meeting and adopted at the same or a subsequent regular meeting by a majorit... |
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