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Revised Code of Washington
State Government—Executive
Department of Health.
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Section
43.70.005
Intent.
Section
43.70.010
Definitions.
Section
43.70.020
Department created.
Section
43.70.030
Secretary of health.
Section
43.70.040
Secretary's powers—Rule-making authority—Report to the legislature.
Section
43.70.041
Five-year formal review process of existing rules.
Section
43.70.045
Warren Featherstone Reid Award for Excellence in Health Care.
Section
43.70.047
Warren Featherstone Reid Award for Excellence in Health Care.
Section
43.70.050
Collection, use, and accessibility of health-related data.
Section
43.70.052
Hospital financial and patient discharge data—Financial reports—Data retrieval—American Indian health data—Reporting—Patient discharge data—Confidentiality and protection.
Section
43.70.053
Hospital consolidated annual income—Reporting.
Section
43.70.054
Health care data standards—Submittal of standards to legislature.
Section
43.70.056
Health care-associated infections—Data collection and reporting—Advisory committee—Rules.
Section
43.70.057
Hospital emergency room patient care information—Data collection, maintenance, analysis, and dissemination—Rules.
Section
43.70.060
Duties of department—Promotion of health care cost-effectiveness.
Section
43.70.064
Health care quality—Findings and intent—Requirements for conducting study under RCW 43.70.066.
Section
43.70.066
Study—Uniform quality assurance and improvement program—Reports to legislature—Limitation on rule making.
Section
43.70.068
Quality assurance—Interagency cooperation.
Section
43.70.070
Duties of department—Analysis of health services.
Section
43.70.075
Identity of whistleblower protected—Remedy for retaliatory action—Definitions—Rules.
Section
43.70.080
Transfer of powers and duties from the department of social and health services.
Section
43.70.081
Transfer of certain behavioral health-related powers, duties, and functions from the department of social and health services.
Section
43.70.090
Authority to administer oaths and issue subpoenas—Provisions governing subpoenas.
Section
43.70.095
Civil fines.
Section
43.70.097
Enforcement in accordance with RCW 43.05.100 and 43.05.110.
Section
43.70.100
Reports of violations by secretary—Duty to institute proceedings—Notice to alleged violator.
Section
43.70.110
License fees—Costs—Other charges—Waiver.
Section
43.70.112
Online access to health care resources—Annual accounting of use of funds and use of online resources—University of Washington.
Section
43.70.115
Licenses—Denial, suspension, revocation, modification.
Section
43.70.117
Health care professionals licensed in another state or United States territory or the District of Columbia—In-state practice on a limited basis—Requirements—Limitations.
Section
43.70.120
Federal programs—Rules—Statutes to be construed to meet federal law.
Section
43.70.125
Health care facility certification—Unfunded federal mandates—Applicant fees.
Section
43.70.130
Powers and duties of secretary—General.
Section
43.70.140
Annual conference of health officers.
Section
43.70.150
Registration of vital statistics.
Section
43.70.170
Threat to public health—Investigation, examination or sampling of articles or conditions constituting—Access—Subpoena power.
Section
43.70.180
Threat to public health—Order prohibiting sale or disposition of food or other items pending investigation.
Section
43.70.185
Inspection of property where marine species located—Prohibitions on harvest or landing—Penalties.
Section
43.70.190
Violations—Injunctions and legal proceedings authorized.
Section
43.70.195
Public water systems—Receivership actions brought by secretary—Plan for disposition.
Section
43.70.200
Enforcement of health laws and state or local rules and regulations upon request of local health officer.
Section
43.70.210
Right of person to rely on prayer to alleviate ailments not abridged.
Section
43.70.220
Transfer of powers and duties from the department of licensing.
Section
43.70.230
Office of health consumer assistance created—Duties.
Section
43.70.240
Written operating agreements.
Section
43.70.250
License fees for professions, occupations, and businesses.
Section
43.70.260
Appointment of temporary additional members of boards and committees for administration and grading of examinations.
Section
43.70.270
License moratorium for persons in the service—Rules.
Section
43.70.280
Procedure for issuance, renewal, or reissuance of credentials—Extension or modification of licensing, certification, or registration period authorized.
Section
43.70.290
Funeral directors and embalmers subject to chapter 18.130 RCW.
Section
43.70.300
Secretary or secretary's designee ex officio member of health professional licensure and disciplinary boards.
Section
43.70.310
Cooperation with department of ecology.
Section
43.70.320
Health professions account—Fees credited—Requirements for biennial budget request—Unappropriated funds.
Section
43.70.323
Hospital infection control grant account.
Section
43.70.327
Public health supplemental account—Annual statement.
Section
43.70.334
Temporary worker housing—Definition.
Section
43.70.335
Temporary worker housing operating license—Fee—Display—Suspension or revocation—Fines—Refunds—Rules—Application of department of labor and industries standards.
Section
43.70.337
Temporary worker housing building permit—Plans and specifications—Fees—Rules.
Section
43.70.340
Temporary worker housing inspection fund—Fees on temporary worker housing operating licenses and building permits—Licenses generally.
Section
43.70.400
Head injury prevention—Legislative finding.
Section
43.70.410
Head injury prevention—Program, generally.
Section
43.70.420
Head injury prevention—Information preparation.
Section
43.70.430
Head injury prevention—Guidelines on training and education—Training of emergency medical personnel.
Section
43.70.435
Diagnosed concussions of students—Report.
Section
43.70.440
Head injury prevention act—Short title—1990 c 270.
Section
43.70.442
Suicide assessment, treatment, and management training—Requirement for certain professionals—Exemptions—Model list of programs—Rules—Health profession training standards provided to the professional educator standards board.
Section
43.70.443
Study of evidence-based suicide assessment, treatment, and management training—Report—Updates.
Section
43.70.444
Washington plan for suicide prevention—Steering committee—Report.
Section
43.70.446
Suicide-safer homes project—Suicide-safer homes project account.
Section
43.70.447
Suicide assessment, treatment, and management—Curriculum for dental students and dentists.
Section
43.70.452
Agricultural industry workforce behavioral health improvement and suicide prevention—Pilot program.
Section
43.70.460
Retired primary and specialty care provider liability malpractice insurance—Program authorized.
Section
43.70.470
Retired health care provider liability malpractice insurance—Conditions.
Section
43.70.480
Emergency medical personnel—Futile treatment and natural death directives—Guidelines.
Section
43.70.490
Emergency medical service personnel training program—Assistance to persons with disabilities—Requirements—Law enforcement officer training—Definitions.
Section
43.70.495
Telemedicine training for health care professionals.
Section
43.70.500
Health care services practice indicators and risk management protocols.
Section
43.70.510
Health care services coordinated quality improvement program—Rules.
Section
43.70.512
Public health system—Foundational public health services—Intent.
Section
43.70.515
Foundational public health services—Funding.
Section
43.70.525
Immunization assessment and enhancement proposals by local jurisdictions.
Section
43.70.526
Childhood immunizations—Resources for expecting parents.
Section
43.70.533
Chronic conditions—Training and technical assistance for primary care providers.
Section
43.70.540
Data collection—Legislative finding and intent.
Section
43.70.545
Data collection and reporting rules.
Section
43.70.550
Public health services improvement plan—Contents.
Section
43.70.555
Assessment standards.
Section
43.70.560
Media violence—Reporting reduction efforts.
Section
43.70.570
Intent—1995 c 43.
Section
43.70.575
Definitions.
Section
43.70.590
American Indian health care delivery plan.
Section
43.70.595
Health equity zones.
Section
43.70.600
Survey regarding exposure to radio frequencies—Results.
Section
43.70.605
Personal wireless services—Random testing on power density analysis—Rules.
Section
43.70.610
Domestic violence education program—Established—Findings.
Section
43.70.613
Health care professionals—Health equity continuing education.
Section
43.70.615
Multicultural health awareness and education program—Integration into health professions basic education preparation curriculum.
Section
43.70.617
Prenatal nutrition best practices—Educational resources for pregnant women.
Section
43.70.619
Pregnancy complications—Informational resources.
Section
43.70.620
List of contacts—Health care professions.
Section
43.70.630
Cost-reimbursement agreements.
Section
43.70.640
Workplace breastfeeding policies—Infant-friendly designation.
Section
43.70.650
School sealant endorsement program—Rules—Fee—Report to the legislature.
Section
43.70.660
Product safety education.
Section
43.70.665
Early detection breast and cervical cancer screening program—Medical advisory committee.
Section
43.70.670
Human immunodeficiency virus insurance program.
Section
43.70.675
Public health advisory board.
Section
43.70.680
Volunteers for emergency or disaster assistance.
Section
43.70.690
State asthma plan.
Section
43.70.700
Locally grown foods—Women, infant, and children farmers market nutrition program—Fruit and vegetable benefit—Rules.
Section
43.70.705
Fall prevention program.
Section
43.70.710
Annual review of medication practices of five jails that use nonpractitioner jail personnel—Noncompliance.
Section
43.70.715
COVID-19 public health response account.
Section
43.70.720
Universal vaccine purchase account.
Section
43.70.725
Health extension program—Dissemination of evidence-based tools and resources—Rules.
Section
43.70.738
Down syndrome resources—Development.
Section
43.70.740
Adjudicative proceedings.
Section
43.70.750
Community assistance referral and education program—Review of certification and training—Recommendations to the legislature.
Section
43.70.765
Opioid drugs—Warning—Patient education materials.
Section
43.70.770
State opioid response plan.
Section
43.70.780
Fruit and vegetable incentives program.
Section
43.70.790
Health care facility inspection and investigation availability.
Section
43.70.800
Oversight, consolidation, and standardization—Review.
Section
43.70.810
Provision of medical information—Dissemination of requirements and authority.
Section
43.70.815
Environmental health disparities map.
Section
43.70.820
Environmental justice obligations of the department of health.
Section
43.70.825
School-based health center program office.
Section
43.70.830
Lead contamination in drinking water in school buildings—Sampling and testing—Data-sharing agreement.
Section
43.70.835
Lead contamination in drinking water in school buildings—State-tribal compact schools.
Section
43.70.840
Lead contamination in drinking water in school buildings—Technical guidance.
Section
43.70.845
Lead contamination in drinking water in school buildings—Department of health as lead agency—Waiver.
Section
43.70.900
References to the secretary or department of social and health services—1989 1st ex.s. c 9.
Section
43.70.901
References to the director or department of licensing—1989 1st ex.s. c 9.
Section
43.70.902
References to the hospital commission—1989 1st ex.s. c 9.
Section
43.70.910
Effective date—1989 1st ex.s. c 9.
Section
43.70.920
Severability—1989 1st ex.s. c 9.