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WA Rev Code § 18.20.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.090 - Rules, regulations, and standards.

RCW 18.20.090 Rules, regulations, and standards.The department shall adopt, amend, and promulgate such rules, regulations, and standards with respect to all assisted living facilities and operators thereof to be licensed hereunder as may be designed to further the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter in promoting safe and adequate care of individuals in assisted living facilities and the sanitary, hygienic and safe conditions of the assisted living facility in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.[ 2012 c 10 § 5; 1985 c 213 § 6; 1971 ex.s. c 189 § 3; 1957 c 253 § 9.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.Savings—Effective date—1985 c 213: See notes following RCW 43.20.050.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.125 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.125 - Inspections—Enforcement remedies—Screening—Limitations on unsupervised access to vulnerable adults.

RCW 18.20.125 Inspections—Enforcement remedies—Screening—Limitations on unsupervised access to vulnerable adults.(1) Inspections must be outcome based and responsive to resident complaints and based on a clear set of health, quality of care, and safety standards that are easily understandable and have been made available to facilities, residents, and other interested parties. This includes that when conducting licensing inspections, the department shall interview an appropriate percentage of residents, family members, and advocates in addition to interviewing appropriate staff.(2) Prompt and specific enforcement remedies shall also be implemented without delay, consistent with RCW 18.20.190, for facilities found to have delivered care or failed to deliver care resulting in problems that are serious, recurring, or uncorrected, or that create a hazard that is causing or likely to cause death or serious harm to one or more residents. These enforcement remedies may also include, when appropriate, reasonable conditions on a license. In the selection of remedies, the safety, health, and well-being of residents shall be of paramount importance.(3)(a) To the extent funding is available, the licensee, administrator, and their staff should be screened through background checks in a uniform and timely manner to ensure that they do not have a criminal history that would disqualify them from working with vulnerable adults. Employees may be provisionally hired pending the results of the background check if they have been given three positive references.(b) Long-term care workers, as defined in RCW 74.39A.009, who are hired after January 7, 2012, are subject to background checks under RCW 74.39A.056.(4) No licensee, administrator, or staff, or prospective licensee, administrator, or staff, with a stipulated finding of fact, conclusion of law, and agreed order, or finding of fact, conclusion of law, or final order issued by a disciplining authority, a court of law, or entered into the state registry finding him or her guilty of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or abandonment of a minor or a vulnerable adult as defined in chapter 74.34 RCW shall be employed in the care of and have unsupervised access to vulnerable adults.[ 2012 c 164 § 504; 2011 1st sp.s. c 31 § 15; 2009 c 580 § 3; 2004 c 140 § 4; 2003 c 231 § 5; 2001 c 85 § 2.]NOTES:Finding—Intent—Rules—Effective date—2012 c 164: See notes following RCW 18.88B.010.Findings—Effective date—2003 c 231: See notes following RCW 18.20.020.Effective date—2001 c 85: See note following RCW 18.20.115.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.126 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.126 - Screening—Certificates of parental improvement.

RCW 18.20.126 Screening—Certificates of parental improvement.Assisted living facilities, as defined in this chapter, may not automatically deny a prospective volunteer or employee solely because of a founded finding of child abuse or neglect involving the individual revealed in the record check or a court finding or a court finding that the individual's child was dependent as a result of a finding that the individual abused or neglected their child pursuant to RCW 13.34.030(6)(b) when that founded finding or court finding is accompanied by a certificate of parental improvement as defined in chapter 74.13 RCW related to the same incident without conducting a review to determine the individual's character, suitability, and competency to volunteer with vulnerable adults.[ 2020 c 270 § 5.]NOTES:Effective date—2020 c 270: See note following RCW 74.13.720.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.140 - Operating without license—Penalty.

RCW 18.20.140 Operating without license—Penalty.Any person operating or maintaining any assisted living facility without a license under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and each day of a continuing violation shall be considered a separate offense.[ 2012 c 10 § 9; 1957 c 253 § 14.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.150 - Operating without license—Injunction.

RCW 18.20.150 Operating without license—Injunction.Notwithstanding the existence or use of any other remedy, the department, may, in the manner provided by law, upon the advice of the attorney general who shall represent the department in the proceedings, maintain an action in the name of the state for an injunction or other process against any person to restrain or prevent the operation or maintenance of an assisted living facility without a license under this chapter.[ 2012 c 10 § 10; 1957 c 253 § 15.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.160 - Persons requiring medical or nursing care.

RCW 18.20.160 Persons requiring medical or nursing care.No person operating an assisted living facility licensed under this chapter shall admit to or retain in the assisted living facility any aged person requiring nursing or medical care of a type provided by institutions licensed under chapters 18.51, 70.41 or 71.12 RCW, except that when registered nurses are available, and upon a doctor's order that a supervised medication service is needed, it may be provided. Supervised medication services, as defined by the department and consistent with chapters 69.41 and 18.79 RCW, may include an approved program of self-medication or self-directed medication. Such medication service shall be provided only to residents who otherwise meet all requirements for residency in an assisted living facility. No assisted living facility shall admit or retain a person who requires the frequent presence and frequent evaluation of a registered nurse, excluding persons who are receiving hospice care or persons who have a short-term illness that is expected to be resolved within fourteen days.[ 2012 c 10 § 11; 2004 c 142 § 12; 1985 c 297 § 2; 1975 1st ex.s. c 43 § 1; 1957 c 253 § 16.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.Effective dates—2004 c 142: See note following RCW 18.20.020.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.170 - Facilities operated by religious organizations.

RCW 18.20.170 Facilities operated by religious organizations.Nothing in this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall be construed as authorizing the supervision, regulation, or control of the remedial care or treatment of residents in any assisted living facility conducted for those who rely upon treatment by prayer or spiritual means in accordance with the creed or tenets of any well-recognized church or religious denomination.[ 2012 c 10 § 12; 1957 c 253 § 17.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.180 - Resident rights.

RCW 18.20.180 Resident rights.RCW 70.129.005 through 70.129.030, 70.129.040, and 70.129.050 through 70.129.170 apply to this chapter and persons regulated under this chapter.[ 2011 1st sp.s. c 3 § 303; 1994 c 214 § 21.]NOTES:Finding—Intent—2011 1st sp.s. c 3: See note following RCW 70.128.005.Conflict with federal requirements—1994 c 214: See RCW 70.129.901.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.184 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.184 - Communication system—Telephones and other equipment.

RCW 18.20.184 Communication system—Telephones and other equipment.(1) Each assisted living facility shall be responsive to incoming communications and respond within a reasonable time to phone and electronic messages.(2) Each assisted living facility must have a communication system, including a sufficient quantity of working telephones and other communication equipment, to ensure that residents have 24-hour access to communications with family, medical providers, and others, and also to allow for emergency contact to and from facility staff. The telephones and communication equipment must provide for auditory privacy, not be located in a staff office or station, be accessible and usable by persons with hearing loss and other disabilities, and not require payment for local calls. An assisted living facility is not required to provide telephones at no cost in each resident room.[ 2021 c 159 § 4.]NOTES:Findings—2021 c 159: See note following RCW 18.20.520.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.195 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.195 - Disputed violations, enforcement remedies—Informal dispute resolution process.

RCW 18.20.195 Disputed violations, enforcement remedies—Informal dispute resolution process.(1) The licensee or its designee has the right to an informal dispute resolution process to dispute any violation found or enforcement remedy imposed by the department during a licensing inspection or complaint investigation. The purpose of the informal dispute resolution process is to provide an opportunity for an exchange of information that may lead to the modification, deletion, or removal of a violation, or parts of a violation, or enforcement remedy imposed by the department.(2) The informal dispute resolution process provided by the department shall include, but is not necessarily limited to, an opportunity for review by a department employee who did not participate in, or oversee, the determination of the violation or enforcement remedy under dispute. The department shall develop, or further develop, an informal dispute resolution process consistent with this section.(3) A request for an informal dispute resolution shall be made to the department within ten working days from the receipt of a written finding of a violation or enforcement remedy. The request shall identify the violation or violations and enforcement remedy or remedies being disputed. The department shall convene a meeting, when possible, within ten working days of receipt of the request for informal dispute resolution, unless by mutual agreement a later date is agreed upon.(4) If the department determines that a violation or enforcement remedy should not be cited or imposed, the department shall delete the violation or immediately rescind or modify the enforcement remedy. If the department determines that a violation should have been cited under a different more appropriate regulation, the department shall revise the report, statement of deficiencies, or enforcement remedy accordingly. Upon request, the department shall issue a clean copy of the revised report, statement of deficiencies, or notice of enforcement action.(5) The request for informal dispute resolution does not delay the effective date of any enforcement remedy imposed by the department, except that civil monetary fines are not payable until the exhaustion of any formal hearing and appeal rights provided under this chapter. The licensee shall submit to the department, within the time period prescribed by the department, a plan of correction to address any undisputed violations, and including any violations that still remain following the informal dispute resolution.[ 2005 c 506 § 1; 2004 c 140 § 5; 2001 c 193 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 18.20.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.210 - License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.

RCW 18.20.210 License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.The department shall immediately suspend the license of a person who has been certified pursuant to RCW 74.20A.320 by the department of social and health services as a person who is not in compliance with a support order or a *residential or visitation order. If the person has continued to meet all other requirements for reinstatement during the suspension, reissuance of the license shall be automatic upon the department's receipt of a release issued by the department of social and health services stating that the licensee is in compliance with the order.[ 1997 c 58 § 816.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: 1997 c 58 § 886 requiring a court to order certification of noncompliance with residential provisions of a court-ordered parenting plan was vetoed. Provisions ordering the department of social and health services to certify a responsible parent based on a court order to certify for noncompliance with residential provisions of a parenting plan were vetoed. See RCW 74.20A.320.Short title—Part headings, captions, table of contents not law—Exemptions and waivers from federal law—Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—1997 c 58: See RCW 74.08A.900 through 74.08A.904.Effective dates—Intent—1997 c 58: See notes following RCW 74.20A.320.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.220 - Residential care contracted services, conversion to—Requirements.

RCW 18.20.220 Residential care contracted services, conversion to—Requirements.For the purpose of encouraging a nursing home licensed under chapter 18.51 RCW to convert a portion or all of its licensed bed capacity to provide enhanced adult residential care contracted services under chapter 74.39A RCW, the department shall:(1) Find the nursing home to be in satisfactory compliance with RCW 18.20.110 and 18.20.130, upon application for assisted living facility licensure and the production of copies of its most recent nursing home inspection reports demonstrating compliance with the safety standards and fire regulations, as required by RCW 18.51.140, and the state building code, as required by RCW 18.51.145, including any waivers that may have been granted. However, assisted living facility licensure requirements pertaining to resident to bathing fixture/toilet ratio, corridor call system, resident room door closures, and resident room windows may require modification, unless determined to be functionally equivalent, based upon a prelicensure survey inspection.(2) Allow residents receiving enhanced adult residential care services to make arrangements for on-site health care services, consistent with Title 18 RCW regulating health care professions, to the extent that such services can be provided while maintaining the resident's right to privacy and safety in treatment, but this in no way means that such services may only be provided in a private room. The provision of on-site health care services must otherwise be consistent with RCW 18.20.160 and the rules adopted under RCW 18.20.160.[ 2012 c 10 § 14; 1997 c 164 § 1.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.250 - Federal funding programs, opportunities—Secretary's duty to comply.

RCW 18.20.250 Federal funding programs, opportunities—Secretary's duty to comply.The secretary may adopt rules and policies as necessary to entitle the state to participate in federal funding programs and opportunities and to facilitate state and federal cooperation in programs under the department's jurisdiction. The secretary shall ensure that any internal reorganization carried out under the terms of this chapter complies with prerequisites for the receipt of federal funding for the various programs under the department's control. When interpreting any department-related section or provision of law susceptible to more than one interpretation, the secretary shall construe that section or provision in the manner most likely to comply with federal laws and rules entitling the state to receive federal funds for the various programs of the department. If any law or rule dealing with the department is ruled to be in conflict with federal prerequisites to the allocation of federal funding to the state, the department, or its agencies, the secretary shall declare that law or rule inoperative solely to the extent of the conflict.[ 1998 c 272 § 16.]NOTES:Findings—Severability—Effective date—1998 c 272: See notes following RCW 18.20.230.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.280 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.280 - General responsibility for each resident.

RCW 18.20.280 General responsibility for each resident.(1) The assisted living facility must assume general responsibility for each resident and must promote each resident's health, safety, and well-being consistent with the resident negotiated care plan.(2) The assisted living facility is not required to supervise the activities of a person providing care or services to a resident when the resident, or legal representative, has independently arranged for or contracted with the person and the person is not directly or indirectly controlled or paid by the assisted living facility. However, the assisted living facility is required to coordinate services with such person to the extent allowed by the resident, or legal representative, and consistent with the resident's negotiated care plan. Further, the assisted living facility is required to observe the resident and respond appropriately to any changes in the resident's overall functioning consistent with chapter 70.129 RCW, this chapter, and rules adopted under this chapter.[ 2012 c 10 § 17; 2003 c 231 § 7.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.Findings—Effective date—2003 c 231: See notes following RCW 18.20.020.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.290 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.290 - Holding a medicaid eligible resident's room or unit—Payment rates.

RCW 18.20.290 Holding a medicaid eligible resident's room or unit—Payment rates.(1) When an assisted living facility contracts with the department to provide adult residential care services, enhanced adult residential care services, or assisted living services under chapter 74.39A RCW, the assisted living facility must hold a medicaid eligible resident's room or unit when short-term care is needed in a nursing home or hospital, the resident is likely to return to the assisted living facility, and payment is made under subsection (2) of this section.(2) The medicaid resident's bed or unit shall be held for up to twenty days. The per day bed or unit hold compensation amount shall be seventy percent of the daily rate paid for the first seven days the bed or unit is held for the resident who needs short-term nursing home care or hospitalization. The rate for the eighth through the twentieth day a bed is held shall be established in rule, but shall be no lower than ten dollars per day the bed or unit is held.(3) The assisted living facility may seek third-party payment to hold a bed or unit for twenty-one days or longer. The third-party payment shall not exceed the medicaid daily rate paid to the facility for the resident. If third-party payment is not available, the medicaid resident may return to the first available and appropriate bed or unit, if the resident continues to meet the admission criteria under this chapter.[ 2012 c 10 § 18; 2006 c 64 § 1; 2004 c 142 § 13; 2003 c 231 § 11.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.Effective dates—2004 c 142: See note following RCW 18.20.020.Findings—Effective date—2003 c 231: See notes following RCW 18.20.020.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.305 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.305 - Disclosure to nonresidents.

RCW 18.20.305 Disclosure to nonresidents.(1) An assisted living facility must provide each nonresident a disclosure statement upon admission and at the time that additional services are requested by a nonresident.(2) The disclosure statement shall notify the nonresident that:(a) The resident rights of chapter 70.129 RCW do not apply to nonresidents;(b) Licensing requirements for *boarding homes under this chapter do not apply to nonresident units; and(c) The jurisdiction of the long-term care ombuds does not apply to nonresidents and nonresident units.[ 2013 c 23 § 10; 2011 c 366 § 4.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: The term "boarding home" was changed to "assisted living facility" by 2012 c 10 § 2.Findings—Purpose—Conflict with federal requirements—2011 c 366: See notes following RCW 18.20.020.
WA Rev Code § 18.20.310 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 18 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.|18.20.310 - Assistance with activities of daily living.

RCW 18.20.310 Assistance with activities of daily living.(1) Assisted living facilities are not required to provide assistance with one or more activities of daily living.(2) If an assisted living facility licensee chooses to provide assistance with activities of daily living, the licensee shall provide at least the minimal level of assistance for all activities of daily living consistent with subsection (3) of this section and consistent with the reasonable accommodation requirements in state or federal laws. "Activities of daily living" means the following self-care activities related to personal care:(a) Bathing;(b) Dressing;(c) Eating;(d) Personal hygiene;(e) Transferring;(f) Toileting;(g) Ambulation and mobility; and(h) Medication assistance, as defined in RCW 69.41.010.(3) The department shall, in rule, define the minimum level of assistance that will be provided for all activities of daily living, however, such rules shall not require more than occasional stand-by assistance or more than occasional physical assistance.(4) The licensee shall clarify, through the disclosure form, the assistance with activities of daily living that may be provided, and any limitations or conditions that may apply. The licensee shall also clarify through the disclosure form any additional services that may be provided.(5) In providing assistance with activities of daily living, the assisted living facility shall observe the resident for changes in overall functioning and respond appropriately when there are observable or reported changes in the resident's physical, mental, or emotional functioning.[ 2017 c 201 § 1; 2012 c 10 § 20; 2004 c 142 § 3.]NOTES:Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.Effective dates—2004 c 142: See note following RCW 18.20.020.