Washington Code 70.41.310 – Long-term care — Program information to be provided to hospitals — Information on options to be provided to patients
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(1)(a) The department of social and health services, in consultation with hospitals and acute care facilities, shall promote the most appropriate and cost-effective use of long-term care services by developing and distributing to hospitals and other appropriate health care settings information on the various chronic long-term care programs that it administers directly or through contract. The information developed by the department of social and health services shall, at a minimum, include the following:
Terms Used In Washington Code 70.41.310
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the Washington state department of health. See Washington Code 70.41.020
- Discharge: means a patient's release from a hospital following the patient's admission to the hospital. See Washington Code 70.41.020
- Hospital: as used in this chapter does not include hotels, or similar places furnishing only food and lodging, or simply domiciliary care; nor does it include clinics, or physician's offices where patients are not regularly kept as bed patients for twenty-four hours or more; nor does it include nursing homes, as defined and which come within the scope of chapter 18. See Washington Code 70.41.020
- Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof. See Washington Code 70.41.020
(i) An identification and detailed description of each long-term care service available in the state;
(ii) Functional, cognitive, and medicaid eligibility criteria that may be required for placement or admission to each long-term care service; and
(iii) A long-term care services resource manual for each hospital, that identifies the long-term care services operating within each hospital’s patient service area. The long-term care services resource manual shall, at a minimum, identify the name, address, and telephone number of each entity known to be providing long-term care services; a brief description of the programs or services provided by each of the identified entities; and the name or names of a person or persons who may be contacted for further information or assistance in accessing the programs or services at each of the identified entities.
(b) The information required in (a) of this subsection shall be periodically updated and distributed to hospitals by the department of social and health services so that the information reflects current long-term care service options available within each hospital’s patient service area.
(2) To the extent that a patient will have continuing care needs, once discharged from the hospital setting, hospitals shall, during the course of the patient’s hospital stay, promote each patient’s family member’s and/or legal representative’s understanding of available long-term care service discharge options by, at a minimum:
(a) Discussing the various and relevant long-term care services available, including eligibility criteria;
(b) Making available, to patients, their family members, and/or legal representative, a copy of the most current long-term care services resource manual;
(c) Responding to long-term care questions posed by patients, their family members, and/or legal representative;
(d) Assisting the patient, their family members, and/or legal representative in contacting appropriate persons or entities to respond to the question or questions posed; and
(e) Linking the patient and family to the local, state-designated aging and long-term care network to ensure effective transitions to appropriate levels of care and ongoing support.
NOTES:
Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—Effective date—1995 1st sp.s. c 18: See notes following RCW 74.39A.030.