RCW 18.20.410
Standards for small assisted living facilities—Study.
The department of health, the department, and the building code council shall develop standards for small assisted living facilities between seven and sixteen beds that address at least the following issues:
(1) Domestic food refrigeration and freezer storage;
(2) Sinks and sink placement;
(3) Dishwashers;
(4) Use of heat supplements for water temperature in clothes washers;
(5) Yard shrubbery;
(6) Number of janitorial rooms in a facility;
(7) Number and cross-purpose of dirty rooms;
(8) Instant hot water faucets;
(9) Medication refrigeration; and
(10) Walled and gated facilities.
Based on the standards developed under this section, the department of health and the building code council shall study the risks and benefits of modifying and simplifying construction and equipment standards for assisted living facilities with a capacity of seven to sixteen persons. The study shall include coordination with the department. The department of health shall report its findings and recommendations to appropriate committees of the legislature no later than December 1, 2005.
[ 2012 c 10 § 30; 2005 c 505 § 1.]
NOTES:
Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.
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.