It is the purpose of the commission to regulate the competency and quality of professional health care providers under its jurisdiction by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing qualifications for licensing, consistent standards of practice, continuing competency mechanisms, and discipline. Rules, policies, and procedures developed by the commission must promote the delivery of quality health care to the residents of the state of Washington.
RCW 18.71.002
Purpose.
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Nguyen v. STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH (2000)
Most recently applied in Ancier v. STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH (September 2007)
2019 c 55 s 2; 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 301.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.