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.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 18.20 - Assisted Living Facilities.
18.20.040 - Application for license.
18.20.090 - Rules, regulations, and standards.
18.20.095 - Resident contact information—Department requirements and duties.
18.20.110 - Inspection of assisted living facilities—Approval of changes or new facilities.
18.20.115 - Quality improvement consultation program—Principles.
18.20.126 - Screening—Certificates of parental improvement.
18.20.130 - Fire protection—Duties of chief of the Washington state patrol.
18.20.140 - Operating without license—Penalty.
18.20.150 - Operating without license—Injunction.
18.20.160 - Persons requiring medical or nursing care.
18.20.170 - Facilities operated by religious organizations.
18.20.184 - Communication system—Telephones and other equipment.
18.20.190 - Department response to noncompliance or violations.
18.20.195 - Disputed violations, enforcement remedies—Informal dispute resolution process.
18.20.210 - License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.
18.20.220 - Residential care contracted services, conversion to—Requirements.
18.20.230 - Training standards review—Proposed enhancements.
18.20.250 - Federal funding programs, opportunities—Secretary's duty to comply.
18.20.270 - Long-term caregiver training.
18.20.280 - General responsibility for each resident.
18.20.290 - Holding a medicaid eligible resident's room or unit—Payment rates.
18.20.300 - Domiciliary care services—Scope of services—Disclosure form.
18.20.305 - Disclosure to nonresidents.
18.20.310 - Assistance with activities of daily living.
18.20.320 - Health support services.
18.20.330 - Intermittent nursing services.
18.20.350 - Preadmission assessment—Initial resident service plan—Respite care.
18.20.360 - Full reassessment of resident.
18.20.370 - Negotiated service agreement.
18.20.380 - Provision of outside services—Licensee's duty of care/negligence.
18.20.390 - Quality assurance committee.
18.20.400 - Correction of violation/deficiency—Not included in facility report.
18.20.410 - Standards for small assisted living facilities—Study.
18.20.415 - Rule-making authority.
18.20.420 - Temporary management.
18.20.430 - Assisted living facility temporary management account.
18.20.440 - Withdrawal from medicaid program—Notice—Duties.
18.20.500 - Information for consumers.
18.20.510 - Work group—Quality metrics.
18.20.520 - Stop placement orders and limited stop placement orders.
18.20.525 - Disaster preparedness plan.
18.20.900 - Severability—1957 c 253.
18.20.901 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.