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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.180 - Rural Health Care. › 70.180.130 - Expenditures, funding.

RCW 70.180.130
Expenditures, funding.
Any additional expenditures incurred by the University of Washington from provisions of chapter 271, Laws of 1990 shall be funded from existing financial resources.
[ 1990 c 271 § 28.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.010 - Definitions.

RCW 70.185.010
Definitions.
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Department" means the department of health.
(2) "Health care professional recruitment and retention strategic plan" means a plan developed by the participant and includes identification of health care personnel needs of the community, how these professionals will be recruited and retained in the community following recruitment.
(3) "Institutions of higher education" means educational institutions as defined in RCW 28B.10.016.
(4) "Local administrator" means an individual or organization representing the participant who may enter into legal agreements on behalf of the participant.
(5) "Participant" means communities, counties, and regions that serve as a health care catchment area where the project site is located.
(6) "Project" means the community-based retention and recruitment project.
(7) "Project site" means a site selected to participate in the project.
(8) "Secretary" means the secretary of health.
[ 1991 c 332 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.020 - Statewide recruitment and retention clearinghouse.

RCW 70.185.020
Statewide recruitment and retention clearinghouse.
The department, in consultation with appropriate private and public entities, shall establish a health professional recruitment and retention clearinghouse. The clearinghouse shall:
(1) Inventory and classify the current public and private health professional recruitment and retention efforts;
(2) Identify recruitment and retention program models having the greatest success rates;
(3) Identify recruitment and retention program gaps;
(4) Work with existing recruitment and retention programs to better coordinate statewide activities and to make such services more widely known and broadly available;
(5) Provide general information to communities, health care facilities, and others about existing available programs;
(6) Work in cooperation with private and public entities to develop new recruitment and retention programs;
(7) Identify needed recruitment and retention programming for state institutions, county public health departments and districts, county human service agencies, and other entities serving substantial numbers of public pay and charity care patients, and may provide to these entities when they have been selected as participants necessary recruitment and retention assistance including:
(a) Assistance in establishing or enhancing recruitment of health care professionals;
(b) Recruitment on behalf of sites unable to establish their own recruitment program; and
(c) Assistance with retention activities when practitioners of the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program authorized by *chapter 18.150 RCW are present in the practice setting.
[ 1991 c 332 § 8.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: Chapter 18.150 RCW was recodified as chapter 28B.115 RCW by 1991 c 332 § 36.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.040 - Rules.

RCW 70.185.040
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.
[ 1991 c 332 § 10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.050 - Secretary's powers and duties.

RCW 70.185.050
Secretary's powers and duties.
The secretary shall have the following powers and duties:
(1) To design the project application and selection process, including a program to advertise the project to rural communities and encourage prospective applicants to apply. Subject to funding, project sites shall be selected that are eligible to receive funding. Funding shall be used to hire consultants and perform other activities necessary to meet participant requirements under this chapter. The secretary shall require at least fifty percent matching funds or in-kind contributions from participants. In considering selection of participants eligible for seed grant funding, the secretary should consider project sites where (a) existing access to health care is severely inadequate, (b) recruitment and retention problems have been chronic, (c) the community is in need of primary care practitioners, or (d) the community has unmet health care needs for specific target populations;
(2) To design acceptable health care professional recruitment and retention strategic plans, and to serve as a general resource to participants in the planning, administration, and evaluation of project sites;
(3) To assess and approve strategic plans developed by participants, including an assessment of the technical and financial feasibility of implementing the plan and whether adequate local support for the plan is demonstrated;
(4) To identify existing private and public resources that may serve as eligible consultants, identify technical assistance resources for communities in the project, create a register of public and private technical resource services available, and provide the register to participants. The secretary shall screen consultants to determine their qualifications prior to including them on the register;
(5) To work with other state agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public and private organizations to coordinate technical assistance services for participants;
(6) To administer available funds for community use while participating in the project and establish procedures to assure accountability in the use of seed grant funds by participants;
(7) To define data and other minimum requirements for adequate evaluation of projects and to develop and implement an overall monitoring and evaluation mechanism for the projects;
(8) To act as facilitator for multiple applicants and entrants to the project;
(9) To report to the appropriate legislative committees and others from time to time on the progress of the projects including the identification of statutory and regulatory barriers to successful completion of rural health care delivery goals and an ongoing evaluation of the project.
[ 1991 c 332 § 11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.060 - Duties and responsibilities of participating communities.

RCW 70.185.060
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 professional needs;
(5) To write a health care professional recruitment and retention strategic plan;
(6) To screen and contract with consultants for technical assistance if the project site was selected to receive funding and assistance is needed;
(7) To monitor and evaluate the project in an ongoing manner;
(8) To provide data and comply with other requirements of the administrator that are intended to evaluate the effectiveness of the projects;
(9) To assure that specific populations with unmet health care needs have access to services.
[ 1991 c 332 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.070 - Cooperation of state agencies.

RCW 70.185.070
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 Titles 28A and 28B RCW to identify and coordinate the delivery of technical assistance services to participants in meeting the responsibilities of this chapter. The state agencies, vocational-technical institutions, and institutions of higher education shall cooperate and provide technical assistance to the secretary to the extent that current funding for these entities permits.
[ 1991 c 332 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.080 - Participants authorized to contract—Penalty—Secretary and state exempt from liability.

RCW 70.185.080
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 is a gross misdemeanor and shall incur the penalties under chapter 9A.20 RCW.
(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.
[ 1991 c 332 § 14.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.090 - Community contracted student educational positions.

RCW 70.185.090
Community contracted student educational positions.
(1) The department may develop a mechanism for underserved rural or urban communities to contract with education and training programs for student positions above the full time equivalent lids. The goal of this program is to provide additional capacity, educating students who will practice in underserved communities.
(2) Eligible education and training programs are those programs approved by the department that lead to eligibility for a credential as a credentialed health care professional. Eligible professions are those licensed under chapters 18.36A, 18.57, 18.71, and 18.71A RCW and advanced registered nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW, and may include other providers identified as needed in the health personnel resource plan.
(3) Students participating in the community contracted educational positions shall meet all applicable educational program requirements and provide assurances, acceptable to the community, that they will practice in the sponsoring community following completion of education and necessary licensure.
(4) Participants in the program incur an obligation to repay any contracted funds with interest set by state law, unless they serve at least three years in the sponsoring community.
(5) The department may provide funds to communities for use in contracting.
[ 2020 c 80 § 49; 1993 c 492 § 274.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2020 c 80 §§ 12-59: See note following RCW 7.68.030.
Intent—2020 c 80: See note following RCW 18.71A.010.
Finding—1993 c 492: See note following RCW 28B.115.080.
Findings—Intent—1993 c 492: See notes following RCW 43.20.050.
Short title—Savings—Reservation of legislative power—Effective dates—1993 c 492: See RCW 43.72.910 through 43.72.915.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.100 - Contracts with area health education centers.

RCW 70.185.100
Contracts with area health education centers.
The secretary may establish and contract with area health education centers in the eastern and western parts of the state. Consistent with the recruitment and retention objectives of this chapter, the centers shall provide or facilitate the provision of health professional educational and continuing education programs that strengthen the delivery of primary health care services in rural and medically underserved urban areas of the state. The center shall assist in the development and operation of health personnel recruitment and retention programs that are consistent with activities authorized under this chapter. The centers shall further provide technical expertise in the development of well managed health care delivery systems in rural Washington consistent with the goals and objectives of chapter 492, Laws of 1993.
[ 1993 c 492 § 275.]
NOTES:
Finding—1993 c 492: See note following RCW 28B.115.080.
Findings—Intent—1993 c 492: See notes following RCW 43.20.050.
Short title—Savings—Reservation of legislative power—Effective dates—1993 c 492: See RCW 43.72.910 through 43.72.915.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.185 - Rural and Underserved Areas—Health Care Professional Recruitment and Retention. › 70.185.900 - Application to scope of practice—Captions not law—1991 c 332.

RCW 70.185.900
Application to scope of practice—Captions not law—1991 c 332.
See notes following RCW 18.130.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.030 - Proposals to facilitate services at the community level.

RCW 70.190.030
Proposals to facilitate services at the community level.
The council shall annually solicit from community networks proposals to facilitate greater flexibility, coordination, and responsiveness of services at the community level. The council shall consider such proposals only if:
(1) A comprehensive plan has been prepared by the community networks;
(2) The community network has identified and agreed to contribute matching funds as specified in *RCW 70.190.010;
(3) An interagency agreement has been prepared by the council and the participating local service and support agencies that governs the use of funds, specifies the relationship of the project to the principles listed in RCW 74.14A.025, and identifies specific outcomes and indicators; and
(4) The community network has designed into its comprehensive plan standards for accountability. Accountability standards include, but are not limited to, the public hearing process eliciting public comment about the appropriateness of the proposed comprehensive plan. The community network must submit reports to the council outlining the public response regarding the appropriateness and effectiveness of the comprehensive plan.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 316; 1992 c 198 § 5.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 70.190.010 was repealed by 2011 1st sp.s. c 32 § 13, effective June 30, 2012.
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.050 - Community networks—Outcome evaluation.

RCW 70.190.050
Community networks—Outcome evaluation.
(1) The Washington state institute for public policy shall conduct or contract for monitoring and tracking of the implementation of chapter 7, Laws of 1994 sp. sess. to determine whether these efforts result in a measurable reduction of violence. The institute shall also conduct or contract for an evaluation of the effectiveness of the community public health and safety networks in reducing the rate of at-risk youth through reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors. The evaluation plan shall result in statistically valid evaluation at both statewide and community levels.
(2) Starting five years after the initial grant to a community network, if the community network fails to meet the outcome standards and goals in any two consecutive years, the institute shall make recommendations to the legislature concerning whether the funds received by that community network should revert back to the originating agency. In making this determination, the institute shall consider the adequacy of the level of intervention relative to the risk factors in the community and any external events having a significant impact on risk factors or outcomes.
(3) The outcomes required under this chapter and social development standards and measures established by the department of health under RCW 43.70.555 shall be used in conducting the outcome evaluation of the community networks.
[ 1998 c 245 § 122; 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 207.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.065 - Member's authorization of expenditures—Limitation.

RCW 70.190.065
Member's authorization of expenditures—Limitation.
No network member may vote to authorize, or attempt to influence the authorization of, any expenditure in which the member's immediate family has a fiduciary interest. For the purpose of this section "immediate family" means a spouse, parent, grandparent, adult child, brother, or sister.
[ 1996 c 132 § 5.]
NOTES:
Intent—Construction—Severability—1996 c 132: See notes following RCW 70.190.060.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.070 - Community networks—Duties.

RCW 70.190.070
Community networks—Duties.
The community public health and safety networks shall:
(1) Review state and local public health data and analysis relating to risk factors, protective factors, and at-risk children and youth;
(2) Prioritize the risk factors and protective factors to reduce the likelihood of their children and youth being at risk. The priorities shall be based upon public health data and assessment and policy development standards provided by the department of health under RCW 43.70.555;
(3) Develop long-term comprehensive plans to reduce the rate of at-risk children and youth; set definitive, measurable goals, based upon the department of health standards; and project their desired outcomes;
(4) Distribute funds to local programs that reflect the locally established priorities and as provided in *RCW 70.190.140;
(5) Comply with outcome-based standards;
(6) Cooperate with the department of health and local boards of health to provide data and determine outcomes; and
(7) Coordinate its efforts with anti-drug use efforts and organizations and maintain a high priority for combatting drug use by at-risk youth.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 304.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 70.190.140 expired June 30, 1995.
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.075 - Lead fiscal agent.

RCW 70.190.075
Lead fiscal agent.
(1) Each network shall contract with a public entity as its lead fiscal agent. The contract shall grant the agent authority to perform fiscal, accounting, contract administration, legal, and other administrative duties, including the provision of liability insurance. Any contract under this subsection shall be submitted to the council by the network for approval prior to its execution. The council shall review the contract to determine whether the administrative costs will be held to no more than ten percent.
(2) The lead agent shall maintain a system of accounting for network funds consistent with the budgeting, accounting, and reporting systems and standards adopted or approved by the state auditor.
(3) The lead agent may contract with another public or private entity to perform duties other than fiscal or accounting duties.
[ 1996 c 132 § 4.]
NOTES:
Intent—Construction—Severability—1996 c 132: See notes following RCW 70.190.060.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.085 - Community networks—Sexual abstinence and activity campaign.

RCW 70.190.085
Community networks—Sexual abstinence and activity campaign.
The community network's plan may include funding for a student designed media and community campaign promoting sexual abstinence and addressing the importance of delaying sexual activity and pregnancy or male parenting until individuals are ready to nurture and support their children. Under the campaign, which shall be substantially designed and produced by students, the same messages shall be distributed in schools, through the media, and in the community where the campaign is targeted. The campaign shall require local private sector matching funds equal to state funds. Local private sector funds may include in-kind contributions of technical or other assistance from consultants or firms involved in public relations, advertising, broadcasting, and graphics or video production or other related fields. The campaign shall be evaluated using the outcomes required of community networks under this chapter, in particular reductions in the number or rate of teen pregnancies and teen male parentage over a three to five year period.
[ 1994 c 299 § 5.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—Severability—Conflict with federal requirements—1994 c 299: See notes following RCW 74.12.400.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.160 - Community networks—Implementation in federal and state plans.

RCW 70.190.160
Community networks—Implementation in federal and state plans.
The implementation of community networks shall be included in all federal and state plans affecting the state's children, youth, and families. The plans shall be consistent with the intent and requirements of this chapter.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 314.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.170 - Transfer of funds and programs to state agency.

RCW 70.190.170
Transfer of funds and programs to state agency.
If a community network is unable or unwilling to assume powers and duties authorized under this chapter by June 30, 1998, or the Washington state institute for public policy makes a recommendation under RCW 70.190.050, the governor may transfer all funds and programs available to a community network to a single state agency whose statutory purpose, mission, goals, and operating philosophy most closely supports the principles and purposes of section 101, chapter 7, Laws of 1994 sp. sess. and RCW 74.14A.020, for the purpose of integrating the programs and services.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 320.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.180 - Community network—Grants for use of school facilities.

RCW 70.190.180
Community network—Grants for use of school facilities.
A community public health and safety network, based on rules adopted by the department of health, may include in its comprehensive community plans procedures for providing matching grants to school districts to support expanded use of school facilities for after-hours recreational opportunities and day care as authorized under chapter 28A.215 RCW and RCW 28A.620.010.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 604.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.190 - Network members immune from civil liability—Network assets not subject to attachment or execution.

RCW 70.190.190
Network members immune from civil liability—Network assets not subject to attachment or execution.
(1) The network members are immune from all civil liability arising from their actions done in their decision-making capacity as a network member, except for their intentional tortious acts or acts of official misconduct.
(2) The assets of a network are not subject to attachment or execution in satisfaction of a judgment for the tortious acts or official misconduct of any network member or for the acts of any agency or program to which it provides funds.
[ 1996 c 132 § 9.]
NOTES:
Intent—Construction—Severability—1996 c 132: See notes following RCW 70.190.060.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.190 - Family Policy Council. › 70.190.930 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 70.190.930
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.
[ 2009 c 521 § 156.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.198 - Early Intervention Services—Hearing Loss. › 70.198.010 - Findings.

RCW 70.198.010
Findings.
(1) The legislature finds that children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families have unique needs specific to the hearing loss. These unique needs reflect the challenges children with hearing loss and their families encounter related to their lack of full access to auditory communication.
(2) The legislature further finds that early detection of hearing loss in a child and early intervention and treatment have been demonstrated to be highly effective in facilitating a child's healthy development in a manner consistent with the child's age and cognitive ability.
(3) These combined factors support the need for early intervention services providers with specialized training and expertise, spanning the spectrum of available approaches and educational options, who can address the unique characteristics and needs of each child who is deaf or hard of hearing and that child's family.
[ 2004 c 47 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.198 - Early Intervention Services—Hearing Loss. › 70.198.020 - Advisory council—Membership.

RCW 70.198.020
Advisory council—Membership.
(1) There is established an advisory council in the department of social and health services for the purpose of advancing the development of a comprehensive and effective statewide system to provide prompt and effective early interventions for children in the state who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families.
(2) Members of the advisory council shall have training, experience, or interest in hearing loss in children. Membership shall include, but not be limited to, the following: Pediatricians; audiologists; teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing; parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing; a representative from the Washington center for deaf and hard of hearing youth; and representatives of the early support for infants and toddlers program in the department of children, youth, and families, the department of health, and the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
[ 2019 c 266 § 27; 2018 c 58 § 12; 2010 c 233 § 2; 2009 c 381 § 33; 2004 c 47 § 2.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2018 c 58: See note following RCW 28A.655.080.
Effective date—2010 c 233: See note following RCW 43.216.020.
Findings—Intent—2009 c 381: See note following RCW 72.40.015.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.198 - Early Intervention Services—Hearing Loss. › 70.198.030 - Development of early intervention service standards.

RCW 70.198.030
Development of early intervention service standards.
(1) The advisory council shall develop statewide standards for early intervention services and early intervention services providers specifically related to children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
(2) The advisory council shall develop these standards by January 1, 2005.
[ 2004 c 47 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.198 - Early Intervention Services—Hearing Loss. › 70.198.040 - Hearing loss pamphlet.

RCW 70.198.040
Hearing loss pamphlet.
(1) The advisory council shall create a pamphlet to be provided to the parents of a child in the state who is diagnosed with hearing loss by their child's pediatrician or audiologist, as appropriate, upon diagnosis of hearing loss. The pamphlet shall contain, at minimum, information on the following: The variety of interventions and treatments available for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; and resources for parent support, counseling, financing, and education related to hearing loss in children.
(2) The pamphlet shall be available for distribution by July 1, 2005.
[ 2004 c 47 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.200 - Donations for Children. › 70.200.010 - Definitions.

RCW 70.200.010
Definitions.
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Distributing organization" means a charitable nonprofit organization under 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c) of the federal internal revenue code, or a public health agency acting on behalf of or in conjunction with a charitable nonprofit organization, which distributes children's items to needy persons free of charge and includes any nonprofit organization that distributes children's items free of charge to other nonprofit organizations or the public. A public health agency shall not otherwise be considered a distributing organization for purposes of this chapter when it is carrying out other functions and responsibilities under Title 70 RCW.
(2) "Donor" means a person, corporation, association, or other organization that donates children's items to a distributing organization or a person, corporation, association, or other organization that repairs or updates such donated items to current standards. Donor also includes any person, corporation, association, or other organization which donates any space in which storage or distribution of children's items takes place.
(3) "Children's items" include, but are not limited to, clothes, diapers, food, baby formula, cribs, playpens, car seat restraints, toys, high chairs, and books.
[ 1997 c 40 § 1; 1994 c 25 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.200 - Donations for Children. › 70.200.020 - Immunity from liability.

RCW 70.200.020
Immunity from liability.
Donors and distributing organizations are not liable for civil damages or criminal penalties resulting from the nature, age, condition, or packaging of the donated children's items unless a donor or distributing organization acts with gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
[ 1994 c 25 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.200 - Donations for Children. › 70.200.030 - Construction—Liability, penalty.

RCW 70.200.030
Construction—Liability, penalty.
Nothing in this chapter may be construed to create any liability of, or penalty against a donor or distributing organization except as provided in RCW 70.200.020.
[ 1994 c 25 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.225 - Prescription Monitoring Program. › 70.225.010 - Definitions.

RCW 70.225.010
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Controlled substance" has the meaning provided in RCW 69.50.101.
(2) "Department" means the department of health.
(3) "Patient" means the person or animal who is the ultimate user of a drug for whom a prescription is issued or for whom a drug is dispensed.
(4) "Dispenser" means a practitioner or pharmacy that delivers a Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance to the ultimate user, but does not include:
(a) A practitioner or other authorized person who administers, as defined in RCW 69.41.010, a controlled substance; or
(b) A licensed wholesale distributor or manufacturer, as defined in chapter 18.64 RCW, of a controlled substance.
(5) "Prescriber" means any person authorized to order or prescribe legend drugs or schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances to the ultimate user.
(6) "Requestor" means any person or entity requesting, accessing, or receiving information from the prescription monitoring program under RCW 70.225.040 (3), (4), or (5).
[ 2019 c 314 § 20; 2007 c 259 § 42.]
NOTES:
Declaration—2019 c 314: See note following RCW 18.22.810.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.225 - Prescription Monitoring Program. › 70.225.030 - Enhancement of program—Feasibility study.

RCW 70.225.030
Enhancement of program—Feasibility study.
To the extent that funding is provided for such purpose through federal or private grants, or is appropriated by the legislature, the health care authority shall study the feasibility of enhancing the prescription monitoring program established in RCW 70.225.020 in order to improve the quality of state purchased health services by reducing legend drug abuse, reducing duplicative and overprescribing of legend drugs, and improving legend drug prescribing practices. The study shall address the steps necessary to expand the program to allow those who prescribe or dispense prescription drugs to perform a web-based inquiry and obtain real time information regarding the legend drug utilization history of persons for whom they are providing medical or pharmaceutical care when such persons are receiving health services through state purchased health care programs.
[ 2007 c 259 § 44.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.225 - Prescription Monitoring Program. › 70.225.045 - Annual report.

RCW 70.225.045
Annual report.
Beginning November 15, 2017, the department shall annually report to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature on the number of facilities, entities, or provider groups identified in *RCW 70.225.040(3) (l) and (m) that have integrated their federally certified electronic health records with the prescription monitoring program utilizing the state health information exchange.
[ 2017 c 297 § 10.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 70.225.040 was amended by 2019 c 314 § 23, changing subsection (3)(l) and (m) to subsection (3)(k) and (l).
Findings—Intent—2017 c 297: See note following RCW 18.22.800.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.225 - Prescription Monitoring Program. › 70.225.050 - Department may contract for operation of program.

RCW 70.225.050
Department may contract for operation of program.
The department may contract with another agency of this state or with a private vendor, as necessary, to ensure the effective operation of the prescription monitoring program. Any contractor is bound to comply with the provisions regarding confidentiality of prescription information in RCW 70.225.040 and is subject to the penalties specified in RCW 70.225.060 for unlawful acts.
[ 2007 c 259 § 46.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.225 - Prescription Monitoring Program. › 70.225.060 - Violations—Penalties—Disclosure exemption for health care providers.

RCW 70.225.060
Violations—Penalties—Disclosure exemption for health care providers.
(1) A dispenser who knowingly fails to submit prescription monitoring information to the department as required by this chapter or knowingly submits incorrect prescription information is subject to disciplinary action under chapter 18.130 RCW.
(2) A person authorized to have prescription monitoring information under this chapter who knowingly discloses such information in violation of this chapter is subject to civil penalty.
(3) A person authorized to have prescription monitoring information under this chapter who uses such information in a manner or for a purpose in violation of this chapter is subject to civil penalty.
(4) In accordance with chapter 70.02 RCW and federal health care information privacy requirements, any physician or pharmacist authorized to access a patient's prescription monitoring may discuss or release that information to other health care providers involved with the patient in order to provide safe and appropriate care coordination.
[ 2007 c 259 § 48.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.225 - Prescription Monitoring Program. › 70.225.070 - Requirements for test sites in the prescription monitoring program.

RCW 70.225.070
Requirements for test sites in the prescription monitoring program.
(1) Test sites that may receive access to data in the prescription monitoring program under RCW 70.225.040 must be:
(a) Licensed by the department as a test site under chapter 70.42 RCW; and
(b) Certified as a drug testing laboratory by the United States department of health and human services, substance abuse and mental health services administration.
(2) Test sites may not:
(a) Charge a fee for accessing the prescription monitoring program;
(b) Store data accessed from the prescription drug monitoring program in any form, including, but not limited to, hard copies, electronic copies, or web/digital based copies of any kind. Such data may be used only to transmit to those entities listed in *RCW 70.255.040(3)(a).
[ 2015 c 259 § 2.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The reference to RCW 70.255.040 appears to be erroneous. RCW 70.225.040 was apparently intended.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.225 - Prescription Monitoring Program. › 70.225.080 - Access to data in the qualifying laboratory.

RCW 70.225.080
Access to data in the qualifying laboratory.
(1) Access to data in the qualifying laboratory must be under the supervision of the responsible person as designated by the United States department of health and human services, substance abuse and mental health services administration certification program.
(2) Such data cannot be gathered, shared, sold, or used in any manner other than as designated under RCW * 70.255.040, RCW 70.225.070, or this section.
[ 2015 c 259 § 3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The reference to RCW 70.255.040 appears to be erroneous. RCW 70.225.040 was apparently intended.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.230 - Ambulatory Surgical Facilities. › 70.230.010 - Definitions.

RCW 70.230.010
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Ambulatory surgical facility" means any distinct entity that operates for the primary purpose of providing specialty or multispecialty outpatient surgical services in which patients are admitted to and discharged from the facility within twenty-four hours and do not require inpatient hospitalization, whether or not the facility is certified under Title XVIII of the federal social security act. An ambulatory surgical facility includes one or more surgical suites that are adjacent to and within the same building as, but not in, the office of a practitioner in an individual or group practice, if the primary purpose of the one or more surgical suites is to provide specialty or multispecialty outpatient surgical services, irrespective of the type of anesthesia administered in the one or more surgical suites. An ambulatory surgical facility that is adjacent to and within the same building as the office of a practitioner in an individual or group practice may include a surgical suite that shares a reception area, restroom, waiting room, or wall with the office of the practitioner in an individual or group practice.
(2) "Department" means the department of health.
(3) "General anesthesia" means a state of unconsciousness intentionally produced by anesthetic agents, with absence of pain sensation over the entire body, in which the patient is without protective reflexes and is unable to maintain an airway.
(4) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof.
(5) "Practitioner" means any physician or surgeon licensed under chapter 18.71 RCW, an osteopathic physician or surgeon licensed under chapter 18.57 RCW, or a podiatric physician or surgeon licensed under chapter 18.22 RCW.
(6) "Secretary" means the secretary of health.
(7) "Surgical services" means invasive medical procedures that:
(a) Utilize a knife, laser, cautery, cryogenics, or chemicals; and
(b) Remove, correct, or facilitate the diagnosis or cure of a disease, process, or injury through that branch of medicine that treats diseases, injuries, and deformities by manual or operative methods by a practitioner.
[ 2011 c 76 § 1; 2007 c 273 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2011 c 76: "This act takes effect January 1, 2012." [ 2011 c 76 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.230 - Ambulatory Surgical Facilities. › 70.230.020 - Duties of secretary—Rules.

RCW 70.230.020
Duties of secretary—Rules.
The secretary shall:
(1) Issue a license to any ambulatory surgical facility that:
(a) Submits payment of the fee established in RCW 43.70.110 and 43.70.250;
(b) Submits a completed application that demonstrates the ability to comply with the standards established for operating and maintaining an ambulatory surgical facility in statute and rule. An ambulatory surgical facility shall be deemed to have met the standards if it submits proof of certification as a medicare ambulatory surgical facility or accreditation by an organization that the secretary has determined to have substantially equivalent standards to those of the department; and
(c) Successfully completes the survey requirements established in RCW 70.230.100;
(2) Develop an application form for applicants for a license to operate an ambulatory surgical facility;
(3) Initiate investigations and enforcement actions for complaints or other information regarding failure to comply with this chapter or the standards and rules adopted under this chapter;
(4) Conduct surveys of facilities, including reviews of medical records and documents required to be maintained under this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter;
(5) By March 1, 2008, determine which accreditation organizations have substantially equivalent standards for purposes of deeming specific licensing requirements required in statute and rule as having met the state's standards; and
(6) Adopt any rules necessary to implement this chapter.
[ 2016 c 146 § 2; 2007 c 273 § 2.]
NOTES:
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.230 - Ambulatory Surgical Facilities. › 70.230.030 - Operating without a license.

RCW 70.230.030
Operating without a license.
Except as provided in RCW 70.230.040, after June 30, 2009, no person or governmental unit of the state of Washington, acting separately or jointly with any other person or governmental unit, shall establish, maintain, or conduct an ambulatory surgical facility in this state or advertise by using the term "ambulatory surgical facility," "day surgery center," "licensed surgical center," or other words conveying similar meaning without a license issued by the department under this chapter.
[ 2007 c 273 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.230 - Ambulatory Surgical Facilities. › 70.230.040 - Exclusions from chapter.

RCW 70.230.040
Exclusions from chapter.
Nothing in this chapter:
(1) Applies to an ambulatory surgical facility that is maintained and operated by a hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW;
(2) Applies to an office maintained for the practice of dentistry;
(3) Applies to outpatient specialty or multispecialty surgical services routinely and customarily performed in the office of a practitioner in an individual or group practice, where the primary purpose of the office is not as set forth in RCW 70.230.010(1), provided that any surgical services in which general anesthesia is a planned event must be performed only in an ambulatory surgical facility as defined in this chapter or in a hospital or hospital-associated surgical center licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW; or
(4) Limits an ambulatory surgical facility to performing only surgical services.
[ 2011 c 76 § 2; 2007 c 273 § 4.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2011 c 76: See note following RCW 70.230.010.