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Revised Code of Washington
Public Health and Safety
Hospital Licensing and Regulation.
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Section
70.41.005
Transfer of duties to the department of health.
Section
70.41.010
Declaration of purpose.
Section
70.41.020
Definitions.
Section
70.41.030
Standards and rules.
Section
70.41.040
Enforcement of chapter—Personnel—Merit system.
Section
70.41.045
Hospital surveys or audits—Frequent problems to be posted on agency websites—Hospital evaluation of survey or audit, form—Notice.
Section
70.41.080
Fire protection.
Section
70.41.090
Hospital license required—Certificate of need required—Participation in Washington rural health access preservation pilot.
Section
70.41.100
Applications for licenses and renewals—Fees.
Section
70.41.110
Licenses, provisional licenses—Issuance, duration, assignment, posting.
Section
70.41.115
Specialty hospitals—Licenses—Exemptions.
Section
70.41.120
Inspection of hospitals—Final report—Alterations or additions, new facilities—Coordination with state and local agencies—Notice of inspection.
Section
70.41.122
Exemption from RCW 70.41.120 for hospitals accredited by other entities.
Section
70.41.125
Hospital construction review process—Coordination with state and local agencies.
Section
70.41.130
Administrative actions against license—Rules—Procedure.
Section
70.41.150
Denial, suspension, revocation of license—Disclosure of information.
Section
70.41.155
Duty to investigate patient well-being.
Section
70.41.160
Remedies available to department—Duty of attorney general.
Section
70.41.170
Operating or maintaining unlicensed hospital or unapproved tertiary health service—Penalty.
Section
70.41.180
Physicians' services.
Section
70.41.190
Medical records of patients—Retention and preservation.
Section
70.41.200
Quality improvement and medical malpractice prevention program—Quality improvement committee—Sanction and grievance procedures—Information collection, reporting, and sharing.
Section
70.41.205
Public hospitals—Review of hospital privileges and quality improvement committee reports—Confidentiality.
Section
70.41.210
Duty to report restrictions on health care practitioners' privileges based on unprofessional conduct—Penalty.
Section
70.41.220
Duty to keep records of restrictions on practitioners' privileges—Penalty.
Section
70.41.230
Duty of hospital to request information on physicians, physician assistants, or advanced registered nurse practitioners granted privileges.
Section
70.41.235
Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery—Discrimination based on board certification is prohibited.
Section
70.41.240
Information regarding conversion of hospitals to nonhospital health care facilities.
Section
70.41.250
Cost disclosure to health care providers.
Section
70.41.300
Long-term care—Definitions.
Section
70.41.310
Long-term care—Program information to be provided to hospitals—Information on options to be provided to patients.
Section
70.41.320
Long-term care—Patient discharge requirements for hospitals and acute care facilities—Pilot projects.
Section
70.41.322
Discharge planning—Requirements—Lay caregivers.
Section
70.41.324
Discharge planning—Certain policies and criteria not required.
Section
70.41.326
Discharge planning—Construction—Liability.
Section
70.41.330
Hospital complaint toll-free telephone number.
Section
70.41.340
Investigation of hospital complaints—Rules.
Section
70.41.350
Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault—Development of informational materials on emergency contraception—Rules.
Section
70.41.360
Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault—Department to respond to violations—Task force.
Section
70.41.365
Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system—Participation by hospitals.
Section
70.41.367
Sexual assault evidence kit collection—Availability, plan, and notice requirements.
Section
70.41.370
Investigation of complaints of violations concerning nursing technicians.
Section
70.41.380
Notice of unanticipated outcomes.
Section
70.41.390
Safe patient handling.
Section
70.41.400
Patient billing—Written statement describing who may be billing the patient required—Contact phone numbers—Exceptions.
Section
70.41.410
Nurse staffing committee—Definitions.
Section
70.41.420
Nurse staffing committee.
Section
70.41.425
Nurse staffing—Department investigations.
Section
70.41.430
Licensed hospitals must adopt a policy regarding methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)—Elements.
Section
70.41.440
Duty to report violent injuries—Preservation of evidence—Immunity—Privilege.
Section
70.41.450
Estimated charges of hospital services—Notice.
Section
70.41.460
Contract with department of corrections.
Section
70.41.470
Information to be made widely available by certain hospitals—Community health needs assessment—Description of community served—Community benefit implementation strategy.
Section
70.41.480
Findings—Intent—Authority to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications—Definitions.
Section
70.41.485
Opioid overdose reversal medications—Distribution—Labeling—Liability.
Section
70.41.490
Authorization for certain transfers of drugs between hospitals and their affiliated companies.
Section
70.41.500
Down syndrome—Parent information.
Section
70.41.510
Pattern of balance billing protection act violations by hospital—Fines and disciplinary action.
Section
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.
Section
70.41.900
Severability—1955 c 267.