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- RCW 70.395.080 · Violations—Civil penalties.
- RCW 70.395.090 · Attorney general humane detention account.
- RCW 70.395.100 · Facilities excluded.
- RCW 70.395.900 · Construction—2021 c 30.
- RCW 70.395.901 · Effective date—2021 c 30.
- RCW 70.40.005 · Transfer of duties to the department of health.
- RCW 70.40.010 · Short title.
- RCW 70.40.020 · Definitions.
- RCW 70.40.030 · Section of hospital and medical facility survey and construction established—Duties.
- RCW 70.40.040 · General duties of the secretary.
- RCW 70.40.060 · Development of program for construction of facilities needed.
- RCW 70.40.070 · Distribution of facilities.
- RCW 70.40.080 · Federal funds—Application for—Deposit, use.
- RCW 70.40.090 · State plan—Publication—Hearing—Approval by surgeon general—Modifications.
- RCW 70.40.100 · Plan shall provide for construction in order of relative needs.
- RCW 70.40.110 · Minimum standards for maintenance and operation.
- RCW 70.40.120 · Applications for construction projects—Diagnostic, treatment centers.
- RCW 70.40.130 · Hearing—Approval.
- RCW 70.40.140 · Inspection of project under construction—Certification as to federal funds due.
- RCW 70.40.150 · Hospital and medical facility construction fund—Deposits, use.
- RCW 70.400.010 · Definitions.
- RCW 70.400.020 · Provision of care for complications of pregnancy—Retaliatory action prohibited.
- RCW 70.400.030 · Retaliatory action—Civil action.
- RCW 70.400.040 · Distribution of informational resources.
- RCW 70.400.900 · Conflict with federal requirements—2021 c 235.
- RCW 70.405.010 · Definitions.
- RCW 70.405.020 · Prescription drug affordability board.
- RCW 70.405.030 · Authority to review drug prices.
- RCW 70.405.040 · Affordability reviews.
- RCW 70.405.050 · Upper payment limits.
- RCW 70.405.060 · Use of savings.
- RCW 70.405.070 · Manufacturer withdrawal from the market.
- RCW 70.405.080 · Reporting.
- RCW 70.405.090 · Rule making.
- RCW 70.41.005 · Transfer of duties to the department of health.
- RCW 70.41.010 · Declaration of purpose.
- RCW 70.41.020 · Definitions.
- RCW 70.41.030 · Standards and rules.
- RCW 70.41.040 · Enforcement of chapter—Personnel—Merit system.
- RCW 70.41.045 · Hospital surveys or audits—Frequent problems to be posted on agency websites—Hospital evaluation of survey or audit, form—Notice.
- RCW 70.41.080 · Fire protection.
- RCW 70.41.090 · Hospital license required—Certificate of need required—Participation in Washington rural health access preservation pilot.
- RCW 70.41.100 · Applications for licenses and renewals—Fees.
- RCW 70.41.110 · Licenses, provisional licenses—Issuance, duration, assignment, posting.
- RCW 70.41.115 · Specialty hospitals—Licenses—Exemptions.
- RCW 70.41.120 · Inspection of hospitals—Final report—Alterations or additions, new facilities—Coordination with state and local agencies—Notice of inspection.
- RCW 70.41.122 · Exemption from RCW 70.41.120 for hospitals accredited by other entities.
- RCW 70.41.125 · Hospital construction review process—Coordination with state and local agencies.
- RCW 70.41.130 · Administrative actions against license—Rules—Procedure.
- RCW 70.41.150 · Denial, suspension, revocation of license—Disclosure of information.
- RCW 70.41.155 · Duty to investigate patient well-being.
- RCW 70.41.160 · Remedies available to department—Duty of attorney general.
- RCW 70.41.170 · Operating or maintaining unlicensed hospital or unapproved tertiary health service—Penalty.
- RCW 70.41.180 · Physicians' services.
- RCW 70.41.190 · Medical records of patients—Retention and preservation.
- RCW 70.41.200 · Quality improvement and medical malpractice prevention program—Quality improvement committee—Sanction and grievance procedures—Information collection, reporting, and sharing.
- RCW 70.41.205 · Public hospitals—Review of hospital privileges and quality improvement committee reports—Confidentiality.
- RCW 70.41.210 · Duty to report restrictions on health care practitioners' privileges based on unprofessional conduct—Penalty.
- RCW 70.41.220 · Duty to keep records of restrictions on practitioners' privileges—Penalty.
- RCW 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.)
- RCW 70.41.235 · Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery—Discrimination based on board certification is prohibited.
- RCW 70.41.240 · Information regarding conversion of hospitals to nonhospital health care facilities.
- RCW 70.41.250 · Cost disclosure to health care providers.
- RCW 70.41.300 · Long-term care—Definitions.
- RCW 70.41.310 · Long-term care—Program information to be provided to hospitals—Information on options to be provided to patients.
- RCW 70.41.320 · Long-term care—Patient discharge requirements for hospitals and acute care facilities—Pilot projects.
- RCW 70.41.322 · Discharge planning—Requirements—Lay caregivers.
- RCW 70.41.324 · Discharge planning—Certain policies and criteria not required.
- RCW 70.41.326 · Discharge planning—Construction—Liability.
- RCW 70.41.330 · Hospital complaint toll-free telephone number.
- RCW 70.41.340 · Investigation of hospital complaints—Rules.
- RCW 70.41.350 · Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault—Development of informational materials on emergency contraception—Rules.
- RCW 70.41.360 · Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault—Department to respond to violations—Task force.
- RCW 70.41.365 · Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system—Participation by hospitals.
- RCW 70.41.367 · Sexual assault evidence kit collection—Availability, plan, and notice requirements.
- RCW 70.41.370 · Investigation of complaints of violations concerning nursing technicians.
- RCW 70.41.380 · Notice of unanticipated outcomes.
- RCW 70.41.390 · Safe patient handling.
- RCW 70.41.400 · Patient billing—Medical debt reporting prohibition—Application of consumer protection act—Exceptions.
- RCW 70.41.410 · Hospital staffing committee—Definitions. (Effective until June 30, 2027.)
- RCW 70.41.420 · Hospital staffing committee.
- RCW 70.41.425 · Hospital staffing—Department investigations.
- RCW 70.41.428 · Hospital staffing committee—Oversight.
- RCW 70.41.430 · Prevention and control of the transmission of pathogens of epidemiological concern—Policy adoption—Reporting—Definitions.
- RCW 70.41.440 · Duty to report violent injuries—Preservation of evidence—Immunity—Privilege.
- RCW 70.41.450 · Estimated charges of hospital services—Notice.
- RCW 70.41.460 · Contract with department of corrections.
- RCW 70.41.470 · Information to be made widely available by certain hospitals—Community health needs assessment—Description of community served—Community benefit implementation strategy.
- RCW 70.41.480 · Findings—Intent—Authority to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications—Definitions.
- RCW 70.41.485 · Opioid overdose reversal medications—Distribution—Labeling—Liability.
- RCW 70.41.490 · Authorization for certain transfers of drugs between hospitals and their affiliated companies.
- RCW 70.41.495 · Human immunodeficiency virus postexposure prophylaxis drugs and therapies—Policies—Coverage.
- RCW 70.41.500 · Down syndrome—Parent information.
- RCW 70.41.510 · Pattern of balance billing protection act violations by hospital—Fines and disciplinary action.
- RCW 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.
- RCW 70.41.530 · Audio-only telemedicine—Facility fees.
- RCW 70.41.540 · Multistate nurse license—Conditions of employment.
- RCW 70.41.550 · Hospital at-home services.
- RCW 70.41.560 · Hospital price transparency—Publishing—Reporting.
- RCW 70.41.570 · Pregnant persons—Provision of emergency services.