§ 70.41.005 Transfer of duties to the department of health
§ 70.41.010 Declaration of purpose
§ 70.41.020 Definitions
§ 70.41.030 Standards and rules
§ 70.41.040 Enforcement of chapter — Personnel — Merit system
§ 70.41.045 Hospital surveys or audits — Frequent problems to be posted on agency websites — Hospital evaluation of survey or audit, form — Notice
§ 70.41.080 Fire protection
§ 70.41.090 Hospital license required — Certificate of need required — Participation in Washington rural health access preservation pilot
§ 70.41.100 Applications for licenses and renewals — Fees
§ 70.41.110 Licenses, provisional licenses — Issuance, duration, assignment, posting
§ 70.41.115 Specialty hospitals — Licenses — Exemptions
§ 70.41.120 Inspection of hospitals — Final report — Alterations or additions, new facilities — Coordination with state and local agencies — Notice of inspection
§ 70.41.122 Exemption from RCW 70.41.120 for hospitals accredited by other entities
§ 70.41.125 Hospital construction review process — Coordination with state and local agencies
§ 70.41.130 Administrative actions against license — Rules — Procedure
§ 70.41.150 Denial, suspension, revocation of license — Disclosure of information
§ 70.41.155 Duty to investigate patient well-being
§ 70.41.160 Remedies available to department — Duty of attorney general
§ 70.41.170 Operating or maintaining unlicensed hospital or unapproved tertiary health service — Penalty
§ 70.41.180 Physicians’ services
§ 70.41.190 Medical records of patients — Retention and preservation
§ 70.41.200 Quality improvement and medical malpractice prevention program — Quality improvement committee — Sanction and grievance procedures — Information collection, reporting, and sharing
§ 70.41.205 Public hospitals — Review of hospital privileges and quality improvement committee reports — Confidentiality
§ 70.41.210 Duty to report restrictions on health care practitioners’ privileges based on unprofessional conduct — Penalty
§ 70.41.220 Duty to keep records of restrictions on practitioners’ privileges — Penalty
§ 70.41.230 Duty of hospital to request information on physicians, physician assistants, or advanced registered nurse practitioners granted privileges
§ 70.41.235 Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery — Discrimination based on board certification is prohibited
§ 70.41.240 Information regarding conversion of hospitals to nonhospital health care facilities
§ 70.41.250 Cost disclosure to health care providers
§ 70.41.300 Long-term care — Definitions
§ 70.41.310 Long-term care — Program information to be provided to hospitals — Information on options to be provided to patients
§ 70.41.320 Long-term care — Patient discharge requirements for hospitals and acute care facilities — Pilot projects
§ 70.41.322 Discharge planning — Requirements — Lay caregivers
§ 70.41.324 Discharge planning — Certain policies and criteria not required
§ 70.41.326 Discharge planning — Construction — Liability
§ 70.41.330 Hospital complaint toll-free telephone number
§ 70.41.340 Investigation of hospital complaints — Rules
§ 70.41.350 Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault — Development of informational materials on emergency contraception — Rules
§ 70.41.360 Emergency care provided to victims of sexual assault — Department to respond to violations — Task force
§ 70.41.365 Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system — Participation by hospitals
§ 70.41.367 Sexual assault evidence kit collection — Availability, plan, and notice requirements
§ 70.41.370 Investigation of complaints of violations concerning nursing technicians
§ 70.41.380 Notice of unanticipated outcomes
§ 70.41.390 Safe patient handling
§ 70.41.400 Patient billing — Written statement describing who may be billing the patient required — Contact phone numbers — Exceptions
§ 70.41.410 Nurse staffing committee — Definitions
§ 70.41.420 Hospital staffing committee
§ 70.41.425 Nurse staffing — Department investigations
§ 70.41.428 Hospital staffing committee — Oversight
§ 70.41.430 Prevention and control of the transmission of pathogens of epidemiological concern — Policy adoption — Reporting — Definitions
§ 70.41.440 Duty to report violent injuries — Preservation of evidence — Immunity — Privilege
§ 70.41.450 Estimated charges of hospital services — Notice
§ 70.41.460 Contract with department of corrections
§ 70.41.470 Information to be made widely available by certain hospitals — Community health needs assessment — Description of community served — Community benefit implementation strategy
§ 70.41.480 Findings — Intent — Authority to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications — Definitions
§ 70.41.485 Opioid overdose reversal medications — Distribution — Labeling — Liability
§ 70.41.490 Authorization for certain transfers of drugs between hospitals and their affiliated companies
§ 70.41.500 Down syndrome — Parent information
§ 70.41.510 Pattern of balance billing protection act violations by hospital — Fines and disciplinary action
§ 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
§ 70.41.530 Audio-only telemedicine — Facility fees
§ 70.41.540 Multistate nurse license — Conditions of employment
§ 70.41.900 Severability — 1955 c 267
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 70.41 - Hospital licensing and regulation

  • Aftercare: includes assistance only for conditions that were present at the time of the patient's discharge from the hospital. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Audio-only telemedicine: means the delivery of health care services through the use of audio-only technology, permitting real-time communication between the patient at the originating site and the provider, for the purpose of diagnosis, consultation, or treatment. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Distant site: means the site at which a physician or other licensed provider, delivering a professional service, is physically located at the time the service is provided through telemedicine. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Emergency contraception: means any health care treatment approved by the food and drug administration that prevents pregnancy, including but not limited to administering two increased doses of certain oral contraceptive pills within seventy-two hours of sexual contact. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • 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
  • Immediate jeopardy: means a situation in which the hospital's noncompliance with one or more statutory or regulatory requirements has placed the health and safety of patients in its care at risk for serious injury, serious harm, serious impairment, or death. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lay caregiver: means any individual designated as such by a patient under this chapter who provides aftercare assistance to a patient in the patient's residence. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Originating site: means the physical location of a patient receiving health care services through telemedicine. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Secretary: means the secretary of health. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Telemedicine: includes audio-only telemedicine, but does not include facsimile or email. See Washington Code 70.41.020
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Victim of sexual assault: means a person who alleges or is alleged to have been sexually assaulted and who presents as a patient. See Washington Code 70.41.020