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HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION

  • 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.
  • RCW 70.41.900— Severability—1955 c 267.