Title 70, PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

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. Project sites that receive seed grant funding ma…

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 ser…

(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 s…

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 sta…

(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 al…

(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 pu…

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 …

The rural health care facility is not considered a hospital for building occupancy purposes. [ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 712.]

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 pr…

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 s 5.]