Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 18 Businesses And Professions - Chapter 18.20 Boarding Homes

• 18.20.010 Purpose
  The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the development, establishment, and enforcement of standards for the maintenance and operation of boarding homes, which, ...
• 18.20.020 Definitions
  As used in this chapter: (1) "Boarding home" means any home or other institution, however named, which is advertised, announced, or maintained for the express ...
• 18.20.030 License required
  (1) After January 1, 1958, no person shall operate or maintain a boarding home as defined in this chapter within this state without a license ...
• 18.20.040 Application for license
  An application for a license shall be made to the department upon forms provided by the department and shall contain such information as the department ...
• 18.20.050 Licenses -- Issuance -- Renewal -- Provisional licenses -- Fees -- Display -- Surrender, relinquishment--Change in licensee--Refusal of renewal, when--Copy of decision
  (1) Upon receipt of an application for license, if the applicant and the boarding home facilities meet the requirements established under this chapter, the department ...
• 18.20.090 Rules, regulations, and standards
  The department shall adopt, amend, and promulgate such rules, regulations, and standards with respect to all boarding homes and operators thereof to be licensed hereunder ...
• 18.20.110 Inspection of boarding homes -- Approval of changes or new facilities
  The department shall make or cause to be made, at least every eighteen months with an annual average of fifteen months, an inspection and investigation ...
• 18.20.115 Quality improvement consultation program -- Principles
  The department shall, within available funding for this purpose, develop and make available to boarding homes a quality improvement consultation program using the following principles: ...
• 18.20.125 Inspections -- Enforcement remedies -- Screening -- Access to vulnerable adults/limitation
  (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 ...
• 18.20.130 Fire protection -- Duties of chief of the Washington state patrol
  Standards for fire protection and the enforcement thereof, with respect to all boarding homes to be licensed hereunder, shall be the responsibility of the chief ...
• 18.20.140 Operating without license -- Penalty
  Any person operating or maintaining any boarding home without a license under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and each day of a ...
• 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 ...
• 18.20.160 Persons requiring medical or nursing care
  No person operating a boarding home licensed under this chapter shall admit to or retain in the boarding home any aged person requiring nursing or ...
• 18.20.170 Homes 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 ...
• 18.20.180 Resident rights
  RCW 70.129.005 through 70.129.030, 70.129.040(1), and 70.129.050 through 70.129.170 apply to this chapter and persons regulated under this chapter.[1994 c 214 § 21.]Notes:      Severability -- ...
• 18.20.185 Complaints -- Toll-free telephone number -- Investigation and referral -- Rules -- Retaliation prohibited
  (1) The department shall establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number for receiving complaints regarding a facility that the department licenses. (2) All facilities that ...
• 18.20.190 Department response to noncompliance or violations
  (1) The department of social and health services is authorized to take one or more of the actions listed in subsection (2) of this section ...
• 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 ...
• 18.20.200 License suspension -- Nonpayment or default on educational loan or scholarship
  The secretary shall suspend the license of any person who has been certified by a lending agency and reported to the secretary for nonpayment or ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 18.20.230 Training standards review -- Proposed enhancements
  (1) The department of social and health services shall review, in coordination with the department of health, the nursing care quality assurance commission, adult family ...
• 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 ...
• 18.20.260 Advisory board
  (1) In an effort to ensure a cooperative process among the department, boarding home provider representatives, and resident and family representatives on matters pertaining to ...
• 18.20.270 Long-term caregiver training
  (1) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (a) "Caregiver" includes any person who provides residents with ...
• 18.20.280 General responsibility for each resident
  (1) The boarding home must assume general responsibility for each resident and must promote each resident's health, safety, and well-being consistent with the resident negotiated ...
• 18.20.290 Holding a medicaid eligible resident's room or unit -- Payment rates. (1) When a boarding home contracts with the department to provide adult residential care services, enhanced adult residential care services, or assisted living services under ...
• 18.20.300 Domiciliary care services--Scope of services--Disclosure form
  (1) A boarding home, licensed under this chapter, may provide domiciliary care services, as defined in this chapter, and shall disclose the scope of care ...
• 18.20.310 Assistance with activities of daily living
  (1) Boarding homes are not required to provide assistance with one or more activities of daily living. (2) If a boarding home licensee chooses to ...
• 18.20.320 Health support services
  (1) The boarding home licensee may choose to provide any of the following health support services, however, the facility may or may not need to ...
• 18.20.330 Intermittent nursing services
  (1) Boarding homes are not required to provide intermittent nursing services. The boarding home licensee may choose to provide any of the following intermittent nursing ...
• 18.20.340 Resident's family member administers medications or treatment -- Written primary or alternate plan -- Licensee's duty of care/negligence
  (1) A boarding home licensee may permit a resident's family member to administer medications or treatments or to provide medication or treatment assistance to the ...
• 18.20.350 Preadmission assessment--Initial resident service plan -- Respite care
  (1) The boarding home licensee shall conduct a preadmission assessment for each resident applicant. The preadmission assessment shall include the following information, unless unavailable despite ...
• 18.20.360 Full reassessment of resident
  (1) The boarding home licensee shall within fourteen days of the resident's date of move-in, unless extended by the department for good cause, and thereafter ...
• 18.20.370 Negotiated service agreement
  (1) The boarding home licensee shall complete a negotiated service agreement using the preadmission assessment, initial resident service plan, and full reassessment information obtained under ...
• 18.20.380 Provision of outside services--Licensee's duty of care/negligence
  (1) The boarding home licensee shall permit the resident, or the resident's legal representative if any, to independently arrange for or contract with a practitioner ...
• 18.20.390 Quality assurance committee
  (1) To ensure the proper delivery of services and the maintenance and improvement in quality of care through self-review, any boarding home licensed under this ...
• 18.20.400 Correction of violation/deficiency--Not included in facility report
  If during an inspection, reinspection, or complaint investigation by the department, a boarding home corrects a violation or deficiency that the department discovers, the department ...
• 18.20.410 Standards for small boarding homes--Study
  The department of health, the department, and the building code council shall develop standards for small boarding homes between seven and sixteen beds that address ...
• 18.20.415 Rule-making authority
  The department of health and the department of social and health services may adopt rules to implement RCW 18.20.410.[2005 c 505 § 2.] ...
• 18.20.420 Temporary management
  (1) If the department determines that the health, safety, or welfare of residents is immediately jeopardized by a boarding home's failure or refusal to comply ...
• 18.20.430 Boarding home temporary management account
  The boarding home temporary management account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from civil penalties imposed under this chapter must ...
• 18.20.440 Withdrawal from medicaid program -- Notice -- Duties
  (1) If a boarding home voluntarily withdraws from participation in a state medicaid program for residential care and services under chapter 74.39A RCW, but continues ...
• 18.20.900 Severability -- 1957 c 253
  If any part, or parts, of this chapter shall be held unconstitutional, the remaining provisions shall be given full force and effect, as completely as ...