RCW 74.39A.570: Community residential service business providers—Administrative review—Rules or policies.

(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, the department may conduct no more than one annual routine review per community residential service business provider in each of the following subject areas, and shall combine review activities in multiple subject areas where possible:

(i) Client finances;

(ii) Client service plans;

(iii) Federal compliance reviews;

(iv) Client community integration;

(v) Provider finances; and

(vi) General quality assurance.

(b) The limitation on routine reviews as described in (a) of this subsection does not apply to activities related to investigations by adult protective services, incident reports, complaint investigations, citation follow-up activities, or mortality reviews, or to monitoring and oversight activities that are otherwise required by federal or state law.

(2) The department shall adopt administrative rules or department policies that require document and record sharing between and within department divisions when performing monitoring and oversight activities in order to minimize multiple requests for documents or records that have already been provided by a community residential service business provider based on a previous request by the department. The rules or policies may identify exceptions to this requirement for ongoing investigations and other circumstances in which document or record sharing is not possible due to confidentiality requirements.