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70.168.010 | Legislative finding. | The legislature finds and declares that: (1) Trauma is a severe health problem in the state of Washington and a major cause of death; (2) Presently, trauma care is very limited in many parts of the state, and health care in rural areas is in transition with the danger that some communities will be without emergency med... |
70.168.015 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Cardiac" means acute coronary syndrome, an umbrella term used to cover any group of clinical symptoms compatible with acute myocardial ischemia, which is chest discomfort or other symptoms due to... |
70.168.020 | Steering committee—Composition—Appointment. | (1) There is hereby created an emergency medical services and trauma care steering committee composed of representatives of individuals knowledgeable in emergency medical services and trauma care, including emergency medical providers such as physicians, nurses, hospital personnel, emergency medical technicians, parame... |
70.168.030 | Analysis of state's trauma system—Plan. | (1) Upon the recommendation of the steering committee, the director of the office of financial management shall contract with an independent party for an analysis of the state's trauma system. (2) The analysis shall contain at a minimum, the following: (a) The identification of components of a functional statewide trau... |
70.168.040 | Emergency medical services and trauma care system trust account. | The emergency medical services and trauma care system trust account is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys shall be transferred to the emergency medical services and trauma care system trust account from the public safety education account or other sources as appropriated, and as collected under RCW 46.63.110 ... |
70.168.050 | Emergency medical services and trauma care system—Department to establish—Rule making—Gifts. | (1) The department, in consultation with, and having solicited the advice of, the emergency medical services and trauma care steering committee, shall establish the Washington state emergency medical services and trauma care system. (2) The department shall adopt rules consistent with this chapter to carry out the purp... |
70.168.060 | Department duties—Timelines. | The department, in consultation with and having solicited the advice of the emergency medical services and trauma care steering committee, shall: (1) Establish the following on a statewide basis: (a) By September 1990, minimum standards for facility, equipment, and personnel for level I, II, III, IV, and V trauma care ... |
70.168.070 | Provision of trauma care service—Designation. | Any hospital or health care facility that desires to be authorized to provide a designated trauma care service shall request designation from the department. Designation involves a contractual relationship between the state and a hospital or health care facility whereby each agrees to maintain a level of commitment and... |
70.168.080 | Prehospital trauma care service—Verification—Compliance—Variance. | (1) Any provider desiring to provide a verified prehospital trauma care service shall indicate on the licensing application how they meet the standards required for verification as a provider of this service. The department shall notify the regional emergency medical services and trauma care councils of the providers o... |
70.168.090 | Statewide data registry—Statewide electronic emergency medical services data system—Quality assurance program—Confidentiality. | (1)(a) By July 1991, the department shall establish a statewide data registry to collect and analyze data on the incidence, severity, and causes of trauma, including traumatic brain injury. The department shall collect additional data on traumatic brain injury should additional data requirements be enacted by the legis... |
70.168.100 | Regional emergency medical services and trauma care councils. | Regional emergency medical services and trauma care councils are established. The councils: (1) By June 1990, shall begin the development of regional emergency medical services and trauma care plans to: (a) Assess and analyze regional emergency medical services and trauma care needs; (b) Identify personnel, agencies, f... |
70.168.110 | Planning and service regions. | The department shall designate at least eight emergency medical services and trauma care planning and service regions so that all parts of the state are within such an area. These regional designations are to be made on the basis of efficiency of delivery of needed emergency medical services and trauma care.
[ 1990 c 2... |
70.168.120 | Local and regional emergency medical services and trauma care councils—Power and duties. | (1) A county or group of counties may create a local emergency medical services and trauma care council composed of representatives of hospital and prehospital trauma care and emergency medical services providers, local elected officials, consumers, local law enforcement officials, and local government agencies involve... |
70.168.130 | Disbursement of funds to regional emergency medical services and trauma care councils—Grants to nonprofit agencies—Purposes. | (1) The department, with the assistance of the emergency medical services and trauma care steering committee, shall adopt a program for the disbursement of funds for the development, implementation, and enhancement of the emergency medical services and trauma care system. Under the program, the department shall disburs... |
70.168.135 | Grant program for designated trauma care services—Rules. | The department shall establish by rule a grant program for designated trauma care services. The grants shall be made from the emergency medical services and trauma care system trust account and shall require regional matching funds. The trust account funds and regional match shall be in a seventy-five to twenty-five pe... |
70.168.140 | Prehospital provider liability. | (1) No act or omission of any prehospital provider done or omitted in good faith while rendering emergency medical services in accordance with the approved regional plan shall impose any liability upon that provider. (2) This section does not apply to the commission or omission of an act which is not within the field o... |
70.168.150 | Emergency cardiac and stroke care system—Voluntary hospital participation. | (1) By January 1, 2011, the department shall endeavor to enhance and support an emergency cardiac and stroke care system through: (a) Encouraging hospitals to voluntarily self-identify cardiac and stroke capabilities, indicating which level of cardiac and stroke service the facility provides. Hospital levels must be de... |
70.168.160 | Report to the legislature. | By December 1, 2012, the department shall share with the legislature the department's report, which was funded by the centers for disease control and prevention, concerning emergency cardiac and stroke care.
[ 2010 c 52 s 4 .]
Findings — Intent — 2010 c 52: See note following RCW 70.168.015 . |
70.168.170 | Ambulance services—Work group—Patient transportation—Mental health or chemical dependency services. | (1) The department, in consultation with the department of social and health services, shall convene a work group comprised of members of the steering committee and representatives of ambulance services, firefighters, mental health providers, and chemical dependency treatment programs. The work group shall establish al... |
70.168.900 | Short title. | This chapter shall be known and cited as the "statewide emergency medical services and trauma care system act."
[ 1990 c 269 s 2 .] |
70.170.010 | Intent. | (1) The legislature finds and declares that there is a need for health care information that helps the general public understand health care issues and how they can be better consumers and that is useful to purchasers, payers, and providers in making health care choices and negotiating payments. It is the purpose and i... |
70.170.020 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: (1) "Charity care" means medically necessary hospital health care rendered to indigent persons when third-party coverage, if any, has been exhausted, to the extent that the persons are unable to pay for the care or to pay deductibles or coinsurance amounts required by a third-party payer, as de... |
70.170.050 | Requested studies—Costs. | The department shall have the authority to respond to requests of others for special studies or analysis. The department may require such sponsors to pay any or all of the reasonable costs associated with such requests that might be approved, but in no event may costs directly associated with any such special study be ... |
70.170.060 | Charity care—Prohibited and required hospital practices and policies—Rules—Notice of charity care availability—Department to monitor and report. | (1) No hospital or its medical staff shall adopt or maintain admission practices or policies which result in: (a) A significant reduction in the proportion of patients who have no third-party coverage and who are unable to pay for hospital services; (b) A significant reduction in the proportion of individuals admitted ... |
70.170.070 | Penalties. | (1) Every person who shall violate or knowingly aid and abet the violation of RCW * 70.170.060 (5) or (6), 70.170.080 , or ** 70.170.100 , or any valid orders or rules adopted pursuant to these sections, or who fails to perform any act which it is herein made his or her duty to perform, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor... |
70.170.080 | Assessments—Costs. | The basic expenses for the hospital data collection and reporting activities of this chapter shall be financed by an assessment against hospitals of no more than four one-hundredths of one percent of each hospital's gross operating costs, to be levied and collected from and after that date, upon which the similar asses... |
70.170.090 | Confidentiality. | The department and any of its contractors or agents shall maintain the confidentiality of any information which may, in any manner, identify individual patients.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 509 .] |
70.170.150 | Enrollment study—Report to legislature.(Expires January 1, 2027.) | (1) The office of the insurance commissioner, in consultation with the Washington health benefit exchange, shall study and analyze how increasing eligibility for charity care impacts enrollment in health plans with high deductibles over a four-year time period. (2) By November 1, 2026, the office of the insurance commi... |
70.175.010 | Legislative findings. | (1) The legislature declares that availability of health services to rural citizens is an issue on which a state policy is needed. The legislature finds that changes in the demand for health care, in reimbursement polices [policies] of public and private purchasers, [and] in the economic and demographic conditions in r... |
70.175.020 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Administrative structure" means a system of contracts or formal agreements between organizations and persons providing health services in an area that establishes the roles and responsibilities each will a... |
70.175.030 | Project established—Implementation. | (1) The department shall establish the Washington rural health system project to provide financial and technical assistance to participants. The goal of the project is to help assure access to affordable health care services to citizens in the rural areas of Washington state. (2) Administrative costs necessary to imple... |
70.175.040 | Rules. | The department shall adopt rules consistent with this chapter to carry out the purpose of this chapter. All rules shall be adopted in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW. All rules and procedures adopted by the department shall minimize paperwork and compliance requirements for participants and should not be complex in n... |
70.175.050 | Secretary's powers and duties. | The secretary shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To design the project application and selection process, including a program to advertise the project to rural communities and encourage prospective applicants to apply. Project sites that receive seed grant funding may hire consultants and shall perform oth... |
70.175.060 | Duties and responsibilities of participating communities. | The duties and responsibilities of participating communities shall include: (1) To involve major health care providers, businesses, public officials, and other community leaders in project design, administration, and oversight; (2) To identify an individual or organization to serve as the local administrator of the pro... |
70.175.070 | Cooperation of state agencies. | (1) The secretary may call upon other agencies of the state to provide available information to assist the secretary in meeting the responsibilities under this chapter. This information shall be supplied as promptly as circumstances permit. (2) The secretary may call upon other state agencies including institutions of ... |
70.175.080 | Powers and duties of secretary—Contracting. | In addition to the powers and duties specified in RCW 70.175.050 the secretary has the power to enter into contracts for the following functions and services: (1) With public or private agencies, to assist the secretary in the secretary's duties to design or revise the health status outcomes, or to monitor or evaluate ... |
70.175.090 | Participants authorized to contract—Penalty—Secretary and state exempt from liability. | (1) Participants are authorized to use funding granted to them by the secretary for the purpose of contracting for technical assistance services. Participants shall use only consultants identified by the secretary for consulting services unless the participant can show that an alternative consultant is qualified to pro... |
70.175.100 | Licensure—Rules. | (1) The department shall establish and adopt such standards and rules pertaining to the construction, maintenance, and operation of a rural health care facility and the scope of health care services, and rescind, amend, or modify the rules from time to time as necessary in the public interest. In developing the rules, ... |
70.175.110 | Licensure—Rules—Duties of department. | In developing the rural health care facility licensure regulations, the department shall: (1) Minimize regulatory requirements to permit local flexibility and innovation in providing services; (2) Promote the cost-efficient delivery of health care and other social services as is appropriate for the particular local com... |
70.175.120 | Rural health care facility not a hospital. | The rural health care facility is not considered a hospital for building occupancy purposes.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 712 .] |
70.175.130 | Rural health care plan. | The department may develop and implement a rural health care plan and may approve hospital and rural health care facility requests to be designated as essential access community hospitals or rural primary care hospitals so that such facilities may form rural health networks to preserve health care services in rural are... |
70.175.140 | Consultative advice for licensees or applicants. | Any licensee or applicant desiring to make alterations or additions to its facilities or to construct new facilities may contact the department for consultative advice before commencing such alteration, addition, or new construction.
[ 1992 c 27 s 5 .] |
70.180.005 | Finding—Health care professionals. | The legislature finds that a health care access problem exists in rural areas of the state because rural health care providers are unable to leave the community for short-term periods of time to attend required continuing education training or for personal matters because their absence would leave the community without... |
70.180.009 | Finding—Rural training opportunities. | The legislature finds that a shortage of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physician assistants exists in rural areas of the state. In addition, many education programs to train these health care providers do not include options for practical training experience in rural settings. As a result, many health care provi... |
70.180.011 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Department" means the department of health. (2) "Rural areas" means a rural area in the state of Washington as identified by the department.
[ 1991 c 332 s 29 .]
Application to scope of practice — Captions... |
70.180.020 | Health professional temporary substitute resource pool.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | The department shall establish or contract for a health professional temporary substitute resource pool. The purpose of the pool is to provide short-term physician, physician assistant, pharmacist, and *advanced registered nurse practitioner personnel to rural communities where these health care providers: (1) Are unav... |
70.180.030 | Registry of health care professionals available to rural communities—Conditions of participation. | (1) The department, in cooperation with the University of Washington school of medicine, the state's registered nursing programs, the state's pharmacy programs, and other appropriate public and private agencies and associations, shall develop and keep current a register of physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists,... |
70.180.040 | Request procedure—Acceptance of gifts.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | (1) Requests for a temporary substitute health care professional may be made to the department by the certified health plan, local rural hospital, public health department or district, community health clinic, local practicing physician, physician assistant, pharmacist, or *advanced registered nurse practitioner, or lo... |
70.180.110 | Rural training opportunities—Plan development. | (1) The department, in consultation with at least the student achievement council, the state board for community and technical colleges, the superintendent of public instruction, and state-supported education programs in medicine, pharmacy, and nursing, shall develop a plan for increasing rural training opportunities f... |
70.180.120 | Midwifery—Statewide plan. | The department, in consultation with training programs that lead to licensure in midwifery and certification as a certified nurse midwife, and other appropriate private and public groups, shall develop a statewide plan to address access to midwifery services. The plan shall include at least the following: (1) Identific... |
70.180.130 | Expenditures, funding. | Any additional expenditures incurred by the University of Washington from provisions of chapter 271, Laws of 1990 shall be funded from existing financial resources.
[ 1990 c 271 s 28 .] |
70.185.010 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Department" means the department of health. (2) "Health care professional recruitment and retention strategic plan" means a plan developed by the participant and includes identification of health care pers... |
70.185.020 | Statewide recruitment and retention clearinghouse. | The department, in consultation with appropriate private and public entities, shall establish a health professional recruitment and retention clearinghouse. The clearinghouse shall: (1) Inventory and classify the current public and private health professional recruitment and retention efforts; (2) Identify recruitment ... |
70.185.030 | Community-based recruitment and retention projects—Duties of department. | (1) The department may, subject to funding, establish community-based recruitment and retention project sites to provide financial and technical assistance to participating communities. The goal of the project is to help assure the availability of health care providers in rural and underserved urban areas of Washington... |
70.185.040 | Rules. | The department shall adopt rules consistent with this chapter to carry out the purpose of this chapter. All rules shall be adopted in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW. All rules and procedures adopted by the department shall minimize paperwork and compliance requirements for participants and should not be complex in n... |
70.185.050 | Secretary's powers and duties. | The secretary shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To design the project application and selection process, including a program to advertise the project to rural communities and encourage prospective applicants to apply. Subject to funding, project sites shall be selected that are eligible to receive funding... |
70.185.060 | Duties and responsibilities of participating communities. | The duties and responsibilities of participating communities shall include: (1) To involve major health care providers, businesses, public officials, and other community leaders in project design, administration, and oversight; (2) To identify an individual or organization to serve as the local administrator of the pro... |
70.185.070 | Cooperation of state agencies. | (1) The secretary may call upon other agencies of the state to provide available information to assist the secretary in meeting the responsibilities under this chapter. This information shall be supplied as promptly as circumstances permit. (2) The secretary may call upon other state agencies including institutions of ... |
70.185.080 | Participants authorized to contract—Penalty—Secretary and state exempt from liability. | (1) Participants are authorized to use funding granted to them by the secretary for the purpose of contracting for technical assistance services. Participants shall use only consultants identified by the secretary for consulting services unless the participant can show that an alternative consultant is qualified to pro... |
70.185.090 | Community contracted student educational positions. | (1) The department may develop a mechanism for underserved rural or urban communities to contract with education and training programs for student positions above the full time equivalent lids. The goal of this program is to provide additional capacity, educating students who will practice in underserved communities. (... |
70.185.100 | Contracts with area health education centers. | The secretary may establish and contract with area health education centers in the eastern and western parts of the state. Consistent with the recruitment and retention objectives of this chapter, the centers shall provide or facilitate the provision of health professional educational and continuing education programs ... |
70.185.900 | Application to scope of practice—Captions not law—1991 c 332. | See notes following RCW 18.130.010 . |
70.190.030 | Proposals to facilitate services at the community level. | The council shall annually solicit from community networks proposals to facilitate greater flexibility, coordination, and responsiveness of services at the community level. The council shall consider such proposals only if: (1) A comprehensive plan has been prepared by the community networks; (2) The community network ... |
70.190.050 | Community networks—Outcome evaluation. | (1) The Washington state institute for public policy shall conduct or contract for monitoring and tracking of the implementation of chapter 7, Laws of 1994 sp. sess. to determine whether these efforts result in a measurable reduction of violence. The institute shall also conduct or contract for an evaluation of the eff... |
70.190.060 | Community networks—Legislative intent—Membership—Open meetings. | (1) The legislature authorizes community public health and safety networks to reconnect parents and other citizens with children, youth, families, and community institutions which support health and safety. The networks have only those powers and duties expressly authorized under this chapter. The networks should empow... |
70.190.065 | Member's authorization of expenditures—Limitation. | No network member may vote to authorize, or attempt to influence the authorization of, any expenditure in which the member's immediate family has a fiduciary interest. For the purpose of this section "immediate family" means a spouse, parent, grandparent, adult child, brother, or sister.
[ 1996 c 132 s 5 .]
Intent — Co... |
70.190.070 | Community networks—Duties. | The community public health and safety networks shall: (1) Review state and local public health data and analysis relating to risk factors, protective factors, and at-risk children and youth; (2) Prioritize the risk factors and protective factors to reduce the likelihood of their children and youth being at risk. The p... |
70.190.075 | Lead fiscal agent. | (1) Each network shall contract with a public entity as its lead fiscal agent. The contract shall grant the agent authority to perform fiscal, accounting, contract administration, legal, and other administrative duties, including the provision of liability insurance. Any contract under this subsection shall be submitte... |
70.190.080 | Community networks—Programs and plans. | (1) The community network's plan may include a program to provide postsecondary scholarships to at-risk students who: (a) Are community role models under criteria established by the community network; (b) successfully complete high school; and (c) maintain at least a 2.5 grade point average throughout high school. Fund... |
70.190.085 | Community networks—Sexual abstinence and activity campaign. | The community network's plan may include funding for a student designed media and community campaign promoting sexual abstinence and addressing the importance of delaying sexual activity and pregnancy or male parenting until individuals are ready to nurture and support their children. Under the campaign, which shall be... |
70.190.090 | Community networks—Planning grants and contracts—Distribution of funds—Reports. | (1) A network shall, upon application to the council, be eligible to receive planning grants and technical assistance from the council. However, during the 1999-01 fiscal biennium, a network that has not finalized its membership shall be eligible to receive such grants and assistance. Planning grants may be funded thro... |
70.190.160 | Community networks—Implementation in federal and state plans. | The implementation of community networks shall be included in all federal and state plans affecting the state's children, youth, and families. The plans shall be consistent with the intent and requirements of this chapter.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 314 .]
Finding — Intent — Severability — 1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following R... |
70.190.170 | Transfer of funds and programs to state agency. | If a community network is unable or unwilling to assume powers and duties authorized under this chapter by June 30, 1998, or the Washington state institute for public policy makes a recommendation under RCW 70.190.050 , the governor may transfer all funds and programs available to a community network to a single state ... |
70.190.180 | Community network—Grants for use of school facilities. | A community public health and safety network, based on rules adopted by the department of health, may include in its comprehensive community plans procedures for providing matching grants to school districts to support expanded use of school facilities for after-hours recreational opportunities and day care as authoriz... |
70.190.190 | Network members immune from civil liability—Network assets not subject to attachment or execution. | (1) The network members are immune from all civil liability arising from their actions done in their decision-making capacity as a network member, except for their intentional tortious acts or acts of official misconduct. (2) The assets of a network are not subject to attachment or execution in satisfaction of a judgme... |
70.190.930 | 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... |
70.198.010 | Findings. | (1) The legislature finds that children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families have unique needs specific to the hearing loss. These unique needs reflect the challenges children with hearing loss and their families encounter related to their lack of full access to auditory communication. (2) The legislature... |
70.198.020 | Advisory council—Membership. | (1) There is established an advisory council in the department of social and health services for the purpose of advancing the development of a comprehensive and effective statewide system to provide prompt and effective early interventions for children in the state who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. (2... |
70.198.030 | Development of early intervention service standards. | (1) The advisory council shall develop statewide standards for early intervention services and early intervention services providers specifically related to children who are deaf or hard of hearing. (2) The advisory council shall develop these standards by January 1, 2005.
[ 2004 c 47 s 3 .] |
70.198.040 | Hearing loss pamphlet. | (1) The advisory council shall create a pamphlet to be provided to the parents of a child in the state who is diagnosed with hearing loss by their child's pediatrician or audiologist, as appropriate, upon diagnosis of hearing loss. The pamphlet shall contain, at minimum, information on the following: The variety of int... |
70.200.010 | Definitions. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 6087-S.SL ) ***
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Distributing organization" means a charitable nonprofit organization under 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c) of the federal internal revenue code, or a public health agency ... |
70.200.020 | Immunity from liability. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 6087-S.SL ) ***
Donors and distributing organizations are not liable for civil damages or criminal penalties resulting from the nature, age, condition, or packaging of the donated children's items unless a donor or distributing organization acts with gross negligence or intentional misconduc... |
70.200.030 | Construction—Liability, penalty. | Nothing in this chapter may be construed to create any liability of, or penalty against a donor or distributing organization except as provided in RCW 70.200.020 .
[ 1994 c 25 s 3 .] |
70.225.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Controlled substance" has the meaning provided in RCW 69.50.101 . (2) "Department" means the department of health. (3) "Patient" means the person or animal who is the ultimate user of a drug for whom a pres... |
70.225.020 | Prescription monitoring program—Subject to funding—Duties of dispensers. | (1) The department shall establish and maintain a prescription monitoring program to monitor the prescribing and dispensing of all Schedules II, III, IV, and V controlled substances and any additional drugs identified by the pharmacy quality assurance commission as demonstrating a potential for abuse by all professiona... |
70.225.025 | Rules. | The department shall adopt rules to implement this chapter.
[ 2007 c 259 s 47 .] |
70.225.030 | Enhancement of program—Feasibility study. | To the extent that funding is provided for such purpose through federal or private grants, or is appropriated by the legislature, the health care authority shall study the feasibility of enhancing the prescription monitoring program established in RCW 70.225.020 in order to improve the quality of state purchased health... |
70.225.040 | Confidentiality and exemption from disclosure of prescription monitoring program information—Procedures—Immunity when acting in good faith. | (1) All information submitted to the prescription monitoring program is confidential, exempt from public inspection, copying, and disclosure under chapter 42.56 RCW, not subject to subpoena or discovery in any civil action, and protected under federal health care information privacy requirements, except as provided in ... |
70.225.045 | Annual report. | Beginning November 15, 2017, the department shall annually report to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature on the number of facilities, entities, or provider groups identified in *RCW 70.225.040 (3) (l) and (m) that have integrated their federally certified electronic health records with the pr... |
70.225.050 | Department may contract for operation of program. | The department may contract with another agency of this state or with a private vendor, as necessary, to ensure the effective operation of the prescription monitoring program. Any contractor is bound to comply with the provisions regarding confidentiality of prescription information in RCW 70.225.040 and is subject to ... |
70.225.060 | Violations—Penalties—Disclosure exemption for health care providers. | (1) A dispenser who knowingly fails to submit prescription monitoring information to the department as required by this chapter or knowingly submits incorrect prescription information is subject to disciplinary action under chapter 18.130 RCW. (2) A person authorized to have prescription monitoring information under th... |
70.225.070 | Requirements for test sites in the prescription monitoring program. | (1) Test sites that may receive access to data in the prescription monitoring program under RCW 70.225.040 must be: (a) Licensed by the department as a test site under chapter 70.42 RCW; and (b) Certified as a drug testing laboratory by the United States department of health and human services, substance abuse and ment... |
70.225.080 | Access to data in the qualifying laboratory. | (1) Access to data in the qualifying laboratory must be under the supervision of the responsible person as designated by the United States department of health and human services, substance abuse and mental health services administration certification program. (2) Such data cannot be gathered, shared, sold, or used in ... |
70.225.090 | Integration with certified electronic health record technologies. | (1) In order to expand integration of prescription monitoring program data into certified electronic health record technologies, the department must collaborate with health professional and facility associations, vendors, and others to: (a) Conduct an assessment of the current status of integration; (b) Provide recomme... |
70.225.900 | Subheadings not law—2007 c 259. | See note following RCW 7.70.060 . |
70.230.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Ambulatory surgical facility" means any distinct entity that operates for the primary purpose of providing specialty or multispecialty outpatient surgical services in which patients are admitted to and disc... |
70.230.020 | Duties of secretary—Rules. | The secretary shall: (1) Issue a license to any ambulatory surgical facility that: (a) Submits payment of the fee established in RCW 43.70.110 and 43.70.250 ; (b) Submits a completed application that demonstrates the ability to comply with the standards established for operating and maintaining an ambulatory surgical f... |
70.230.030 | Operating without a license. | Except as provided in RCW 70.230.040 , after June 30, 2009, 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 an ambulatory surgical facility in this state or advertise by using the term "ambulatory s... |
70.230.040 | Exclusions from chapter. | Nothing in this chapter: (1) Applies to an ambulatory surgical facility that is maintained and operated by a hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW; (2) Applies to an office maintained for the practice of dentistry; (3) Applies to outpatient specialty or multispecialty surgical services routinely and customarily per... |
70.230.050 | Licenses—Applicants—Renewal. | (1) An applicant for a license to operate an ambulatory surgical facility must demonstrate the ability to comply with the standards established for operating and maintaining an ambulatory surgical facility in statute and rule, including: (a) Submitting a written application to the department providing all necessary inf... |
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