STATE STATUTES & CODES

WASHINGTON STATUTES AND CODES

18.51 - Nursing homes.

• 18.51.005 - Purpose.
• 18.51.007 - Legislative intent.
• 18.51.009 - Resident rights.
• 18.51.010 - Definitions.
• 18.51.030 - License required.
• 18.51.040 - Application for license.
• 18.51.050 - License -- Issuance, renewal -- Fee -- Display.
• 18.51.054 - Denial of license.
• 18.51.060 - Penalties -- Grounds.
• 18.51.062 - Temporary managers--Department shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless.
• 18.51.065 - Penalties -- Hearing (as amended by 1989 c 175).
• 18.51.067 - License suspension -- Noncompliance with support order -- Reissuance.
• 18.51.070 - Rules.
• 18.51.091 - Inspection of nursing homes and community-based services -- Notice of violations -- Approval of alterations or new facilities.
• 18.51.140 - Fire protection -- Duties of chief of the Washington state patrol.
• 18.51.145 - Building inspections -- Authority of chief of the Washington state patrol.
• 18.51.150 - Operating without license -- Penalty.
• 18.51.160 - Operating without license -- Injunction.
• 18.51.170 - Application of chapter to homes or institutions operated by certain religious organizations.
• 18.51.180 - Out-patient services -- Authorized -- Defined.
• 18.51.185 - Out-patient services -- Cost studies -- Vendor rates.
• 18.51.190 - Complaint of violation -- Request for inspection -- Notice -- Confidentiality.
• 18.51.200 - Preliminary review of complaint -- On-site investigation.
• 18.51.210 - Authority to enter and inspect nursing home -- Advance notice -- Defense.
• 18.51.220 - Retaliation or discrimination against complainant prohibited, penalty -- Presumption.
• 18.51.230 - General inspection before license renewal -- Required -- Advance notice prohibited.
• 18.51.240 - Alterations or additions -- Preliminary inspection and approval.
• 18.51.250 - Nursing homes without violations -- Public agencies notified -- Priority.
• 18.51.260 - Posting citations for violation of RCW 18.51.060.
• 18.51.270 - Annual report of citations -- Publication -- Contents.
• 18.51.280 - Chapter cumulative.
• 18.51.290 - Writings as public records.
• 18.51.300 - Retention and preservation of records of patients.
• 18.51.310 - Comprehensive plan for utilization review -- Licensing standards -- Regulations.
• 18.51.320 - Contact with animals -- Rules.
• 18.51.350 - Conflict with federal requirements.
• 18.51.400 - Receivership -- Legislative findings.
• 18.51.410 - Receivership -- Petition to establish -- Grounds.
• 18.51.420 - Receivership -- Defenses to petition.
• 18.51.430 - Receivership -- Persons qualified to act as receiver.
• 18.51.440 - Receivership -- Judicial hearing.
• 18.51.450 - Receivership -- Appointment of receiver.
• 18.51.460 - Receivership -- Termination -- Conditions.
• 18.51.470 - Receivership -- Accounting of acts and expenditures by receiver.
• 18.51.480 - Receivership -- Compensation, liability -- Revision of medicaid reimbursement rate.
• 18.51.490 - Receivership -- Powers of receiver.
• 18.51.500 - Receivership -- Financial assistance -- Use of revenues and proceeds of facility.
• 18.51.510 - Receivership -- State medical assistance.
• 18.51.520 - Receivership -- Foreclosures and seizures not allowed.
• 18.51.530 - Notice of change of ownership or management.
• 18.51.540 - Cost disclosure to attending physicians.
• 18.51.550 - Investigation of complaints of violations concerning nursing technicians.
• 18.51.900 - Severability -- 1951 c 117.
• 18.51.910 - Nursing home advisory council -- Termination.
• 18.51.911 - Nursing home advisory council -- Repeal.
• 18.51.920 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.

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