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WA Rev Code § 70.170.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.170 - Health Data and Charity Care.|70.170.070 - Penalties.

RCW 70.170.070 Penalties.(1) Every person who shall violate or knowingly aid and abet the violation of RCW * 70.170.060 (5) or (6), 70.170.080, or ** 70.170.100, or any valid orders or rules adopted pursuant to these sections, or who fails to perform any act which it is herein made his or her duty to perform, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Following official notice to the accused by the department of the existence of an alleged violation, each day of noncompliance upon which a violation occurs shall constitute a separate violation. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter may be enjoined from continuing such violation. The department has authority to levy civil penalties not exceeding one thousand dollars for violations of this chapter and determined pursuant to this section.(2) Every person who shall violate or knowingly aid and abet the violation of RCW 70.170.060 (1) or (2), or any valid orders or rules adopted pursuant to such section, or who fails to perform any act which it is herein made his or her duty to perform, shall be subject to the following criminal and civil penalties:(a) For any initial violations: The violating person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the department may impose a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars as determined pursuant to this section.(b) For a subsequent violation of RCW 70.170.060 (1) or (2) within five years following a conviction: The violating person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the department may impose a penalty not to exceed three thousand dollars as determined pursuant to this section.(c) For a subsequent violation with intent to violate RCW 70.170.060 (1) or (2) within five years following a conviction: The criminal and civil penalties enumerated in (a) of this subsection; plus up to a three-year prohibition against the issuance of tax exempt bonds under the authority of the Washington health care facilities authority; and up to a three-year prohibition from applying for and receiving a certificate of need.(d) For a violation of RCW 70.170.060 (1) or (2) within five years of a conviction under (c) of this subsection: The criminal and civil penalties and prohibition enumerated in (a) and (b) of this subsection; plus up to a one-year prohibition from participation in the state medical assistance or medical care services authorized under chapter 74.09 RCW.(3) The provisions of chapter 34.05 RCW shall apply to all noncriminal actions undertaken by the department of health, the department of social and health services, and the Washington health care facilities authority pursuant to chapter 9, Laws of 1989 1st ex. sess.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 507.]NOTES:Reviser's note: *(1) RCW 70.170.060 was amended by 2018 c 263 § 2, changing subsection (6) to subsection (10), effective October 1, 2018.**(2) RCW 70.170.100 was repealed by 1995 c 265 § 27 and by 1995 c 267 § 12, effective July 1, 1995.
WA Rev Code § 70.170.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.170 - Health Data and Charity Care.|70.170.080 - Assessments—Costs.

RCW 70.170.080 Assessments—Costs.The basic expenses for the hospital data collection and reporting activities of this chapter shall be financed by an assessment against hospitals of no more than four one-hundredths of one percent of each hospital's gross operating costs, to be levied and collected from and after that date, upon which the similar assessment levied under *chapter 70.39 RCW is terminated, for the provision of hospital services for its last fiscal year ending on or before June 30th of the preceding calendar year. Budgetary requirements in excess of that limit must be financed by a general fund appropriation by the legislature. All moneys collected under this section shall be deposited by the state treasurer in the hospital data collection account which is hereby created in the state treasury. The department may also charge, receive, and dispense funds or authorize any contractor or outside sponsor to charge for and reimburse the costs associated with special studies as specified in RCW 70.170.050.During the 1993-1995 fiscal biennium, moneys in the hospital data collection account may be expended, pursuant to appropriation, for hospital data analysis and the administration of the health information program.Any amounts raised by the collection of assessments from hospitals provided for in this section which are not required to meet appropriations in the budget act for the current fiscal year shall be available to the department in succeeding years.[ 1993 sp.s. c 24 § 925; 1991 sp.s. c 13 § 71; 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 508.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: Chapter 70.39 RCW was repealed by 1982 c 223 § 10, effective June 30, 1990.Severability—Effective dates—1993 sp.s. c 24: See notes following RCW 28A.310.020.Effective dates—Severability—1991 sp.s. c 13: See notes following RCW 18.08.240.
WA Rev Code § 70.170.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.170 - Health Data and Charity Care.|70.170.090 - Confidentiality.

RCW 70.170.090 Confidentiality.The department and any of its contractors or agents shall maintain the confidentiality of any information which may, in any manner, identify individual patients.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 509.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.020 - Definitions.

RCW 70.175.020 Definitions.Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Administrative structure" means a system of contracts or formal agreements between organizations and persons providing health services in an area that establishes the roles and responsibilities each will assume in providing the services of the rural health care facility.(2) "Department" means the department of health.(3) "Health care delivery system" means services and personnel involved in providing health care to a population in a geographic area.(4) "Health care facility" means any land, structure, system, machinery, equipment, or other real or personal property or appurtenances useful for or associated with delivery of inpatient or outpatient health care service or support for such care or any combination thereof which is operated or undertaken in connection with a hospital, clinic, health maintenance organization, diagnostic or treatment center, extended care facility, or any facility providing or designed to provide therapeutic, convalescent or preventive health care services.(5) "Health care system strategic plan" means a plan developed by the participant and includes identification of health care service needs of the participant, services and personnel necessary to meet health care service needs, identification of health status outcomes and outcome measures, identification of funding sources, and strategies to meet health care needs including measures of effectiveness.(6) "Institutions of higher education" means educational institutions as defined in RCW 28B.10.016.(7) "Local administrator" means an individual or organization representing the participant who may enter into legal agreements on behalf of the participant.(8) "Participant" means communities, counties, and regions that serve as a health care catchment area where the project site is located.(9) "Project" means the Washington rural health system project.(10) "Project site" means a site selected to participate in the project.(11) "Rural health care facility" means a facility, group, or other formal organization or arrangement of facilities, equipment, and personnel capable of providing or assuring availability of health services in a rural area. The services to be provided by the rural health care facility may be delivered in a single location or may be geographically dispersed in the community health service catchment area so long as they are organized under a common administrative structure or through a mechanism that provides appropriate referral, treatment, and follow-up.(12) "Secretary" means the secretary of health.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 702.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.030 - Project established—Implementation.

RCW 70.175.030 Project established—Implementation.(1) The department shall establish the Washington rural health system project to provide financial and technical assistance to participants. The goal of the project is to help assure access to affordable health care services to citizens in the rural areas of Washington state.(2) Administrative costs necessary to implement this project shall be kept at a minimum to insure the maximum availability of funds for participants.(3) The secretary may contract with third parties for services necessary to carry out activities to implement this chapter where this will promote economy, avoid duplication of effort, and make the best use of available expertise.(4) The secretary may apply for, receive, and accept gifts and other payments, including property and service, from any governmental or other public or private entity or person, and may make arrangements as to the use of these receipts, including the undertaking of special studies and other projects related to the delivery of health care in rural areas.(5) In designing and implementing the project the secretary shall consider the report of the Washington rural health care commission established under chapter 207, Laws of 1988. Nothing in this chapter requires the secretary to follow any specific recommendation contained in that report except as it may also be included in this chapter.[ 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 806; 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 703.]NOTES:Severability—Headings and captions not law—Effective date—1994 sp.s. c 9: See RCW 18.79.900 through 18.79.902.
WA Rev Code § 70.175.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.040 - Rules.

RCW 70.175.040 Rules.The department shall adopt rules consistent with this chapter to carry out the purpose of this chapter. All rules shall be adopted in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW. All rules and procedures adopted by the department shall minimize paperwork and compliance requirements for participants and should not be complex in nature so as to serve as a barrier or disincentive for prospective participants applying for the project.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 704.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.060 - Duties and responsibilities of participating communities.

RCW 70.175.060 Duties and responsibilities of participating communities.The duties and responsibilities of participating communities shall include:(1) To involve major health care providers, businesses, public officials, and other community leaders in project design, administration, and oversight;(2) To identify an individual or organization to serve as the local administrator of the project. The secretary may require the local administrator to maintain acceptable accountability of seed grant funding;(3) To coordinate and avoid duplication of public health and other health care services;(4) To assess and analyze community health care needs;(5) To identify services and providers necessary to meet needs;(6) To develop outcome measures to assess the long-term effectiveness of modifications initiated through the project;(7) To write a health care delivery system strategic plan including to the extent possible, identification of outcome measures needed to achieve health status outcomes identified in the plan. New organizational structures created should integrate existing programs and activities of local health providers so as to maximize the efficient planning and delivery of health care by local providers and promote more accessible and affordable health care services to rural citizens. Participants should create health care delivery system strategic plans which promote health care services which the participant can financially sustain;(8) To screen and contract with consultants for technical assistance if the project site was selected to receive funding and assistance is needed;(9) To monitor and evaluate the project in an ongoing manner;(10) To implement necessary changes as defined in the plans such as converting existing facilities, developing or modifying services, recruiting providers, or obtaining agreements with other communities to provide some or all health care services; and(11) To provide data and comply with other requirements of the administrator that are intended to evaluate the effectiveness of the projects.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 706.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.070 - Cooperation of state agencies.

RCW 70.175.070 Cooperation of state agencies.(1) The secretary may call upon other agencies of the state to provide available information to assist the secretary in meeting the responsibilities under this chapter. This information shall be supplied as promptly as circumstances permit.(2) The secretary may call upon other state agencies including institutions of higher education as authorized under Title 28B RCW to identify and coordinate the delivery of technical assistance services to participants in meeting the responsibilities of this chapter. The state agencies and institutions of higher education shall cooperate and provide technical assistance to the secretary to the extent that current funding for these agencies and institutions of higher education permits.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 707.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.080 - Powers and duties of secretary—Contracting.

RCW 70.175.080 Powers and duties of secretary—Contracting.In addition to the powers and duties specified in RCW 70.175.050 the secretary has the power to enter into contracts for the following functions and services:(1) With public or private agencies, to assist the secretary in the secretary's duties to design or revise the health status outcomes, or to monitor or evaluate the performance of participants.(2) With public or private agencies, to provide technical or professional assistance to project participants.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 708.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.090 - Participants authorized to contract—Penalty—Secretary and state exempt from liability.

RCW 70.175.090 Participants authorized to contract—Penalty—Secretary and state exempt from liability.(1) Participants are authorized to use funding granted to them by the secretary for the purpose of contracting for technical assistance services. Participants shall use only consultants identified by the secretary for consulting services unless the participant can show that an alternative consultant is qualified to provide technical assistance and is approved by the secretary. Adequate records shall be kept by the participant showing project site expenditures from grant moneys. Inappropriate use of grant funding shall be a gross misdemeanor.(2) In providing a list of qualified consultants the secretary and the state shall not be held responsible for assuring qualifications of consultants and shall be held harmless for the actions of consultants. Furthermore, the secretary and the state shall not be held liable for the failure of participants to meet contractual obligations established in connection with project participation.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 709.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.100 - Licensure—Rules.

RCW 70.175.100 Licensure—Rules.(1) The department shall establish and adopt such standards and rules pertaining to the construction, maintenance, and operation of a rural health care facility and the scope of health care services, and rescind, amend, or modify the rules from time to time as necessary in the public interest. In developing the rules, the department shall consult with representatives of rural hospitals, community mental health centers, public health departments, community and migrant health clinics, and other providers of health care in rural communities. The department shall also consult with third-party payers, consumers, local officials, and others to ensure broad participation in defining regulatory standards and requirements that are appropriate for a rural health care facility.(2) When developing the rural health care facility licensure rules, the department shall consider the report of the Washington rural health care commission established under chapter 207, Laws of 1988. Nothing in this chapter requires the department to follow any specific recommendation contained in that report except as it may also be included in this chapter.(3) Upon developing rules, the department shall enter into negotiations with appropriate federal officials to seek medicare approval of the facility and financial participation of medicare and other federal programs in developing and operating the rural health care facility.[ 1998 c 245 § 119; 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 710.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.110 - Licensure—Rules—Duties of department.

RCW 70.175.110 Licensure—Rules—Duties of department.In developing the rural health care facility licensure regulations, the department shall:(1) Minimize regulatory requirements to permit local flexibility and innovation in providing services;(2) Promote the cost-efficient delivery of health care and other social services as is appropriate for the particular local community;(3) Promote the delivery of services in a coordinated and nonduplicative manner;(4) Maximize the use of existing health care facilities in the community;(5) Permit regionalization of health care services when appropriate;(6) Provide for linkages with hospitals, tertiary care centers, and other health care facilities to provide services not available in the facility; and(7) Achieve health care outcomes defined by the community through a community planning process.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 711.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.120 - Rural health care facility not a hospital.

RCW 70.175.120 Rural health care facility not a hospital.The rural health care facility is not considered a hospital for building occupancy purposes.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 712.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.130 - Rural health care plan.

RCW 70.175.130 Rural health care plan.The department may develop and implement a rural health care plan and may approve hospital and rural health care facility requests to be designated as essential access community hospitals or rural primary care hospitals so that such facilities may form rural health networks to preserve health care services in rural areas and thereby be eligible for federal program funding and enhanced medicare reimbursement. The department may monitor any rural health care plan and designated facilities to assure continued compliance with the rural health care plan.[ 1992 c 27 § 4; 1990 c 271 § 18.]
WA Rev Code § 70.175.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.175 - Rural Health System Project.|70.175.140 - Consultative advice for licensees or applicants.

RCW 70.175.140 Consultative advice for licensees or applicants.Any licensee or applicant desiring to make alterations or additions to its facilities or to construct new facilities may contact the department for consultative advice before commencing such alteration, addition, or new construction.[ 1992 c 27 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 70.180.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.180 - Rural Health Care.|70.180.005 - Finding—Health care professionals.

RCW 70.180.005 Finding—Health care professionals.The legislature finds that a health care access problem exists in rural areas of the state because rural health care providers are unable to leave the community for short-term periods of time to attend required continuing education training or for personal matters because their absence would leave the community without adequate medical care coverage. The lack of adequate medical coverage in geographically remote rural communities constitutes a threat to the health and safety of the people in those communities.The legislature declares that it is in the public interest to recruit and maintain a pool of physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, and advanced registered nurse practitioners willing and able on short notice to practice in rural communities on a short-term basis to meet the medical needs of the community.[ 1991 c 332 § 27; 1990 c 271 § 1.]NOTES:Application to scope of practice—Captions not law—1991 c 332: See notes following RCW 18.130.010.
WA Rev Code § 70.180.009 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.180 - Rural Health Care.|70.180.009 - Finding—Rural training opportunities.

RCW 70.180.009 Finding—Rural training opportunities.The legislature finds that a shortage of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physician assistants exists in rural areas of the state. In addition, many education programs to train these health care providers do not include options for practical training experience in rural settings. As a result, many health care providers find their current training does not prepare them for the unique demands of rural practice.The legislature declares that the availability of rural training opportunities as a part of professional medical, nursing, pharmacist, and physician assistant education would provide needed practical experience, serve to attract providers to rural areas, and help address the current shortage of these providers in rural Washington.[ 1990 c 271 § 14.]
WA Rev Code § 70.180.011 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.180 - Rural Health Care.|70.180.011 - Definitions.

RCW 70.180.011 Definitions.Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Department" means the department of health.(2) "Rural areas" means a rural area in the state of Washington as identified by the department.[ 1991 c 332 § 29.]NOTES:Application to scope of practice—Captions not law—1991 c 332: See notes following RCW 18.130.010.
WA Rev Code § 70.180.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.180 - Rural Health Care.|70.180.020 - Health professional temporary substitute resource pool.

RCW 70.180.020 Health professional temporary substitute resource pool.The department shall establish or contract for a health professional temporary substitute resource pool. The purpose of the pool is to provide short-term physician, physician assistant, pharmacist, and advanced registered nurse practitioner personnel to rural communities where these health care providers:(1) Are unavailable due to provider shortages;(2) Need time off from practice to attend continuing education and other training programs; and(3) Need time off from practice to attend to personal matters or recover from illness.The health professional temporary substitute resource pool is intended to provide short-term assistance and should complement active health provider recruitment efforts by rural communities where shortages exist.[ 1994 c 103 § 1; 1990 c 271 § 2.]