Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 18.51 - Nursing Homes.
18.51.240 - Alterations or additions—Preliminary inspection and approval.

RCW 18.51.240
Alterations or additions—Preliminary inspection and approval.

The department may prescribe by regulations that any licensee or applicant desiring to make specific types of alterations or additions to its facilities or to construct new facilities shall, before commencing such alteration, addition or new construction, submit its plans and specifications therefor to the department for preliminary inspection and approval or recommendations with respect to compliance with the regulations and standards herein authorized.

[ 1981 1st ex.s. c 2 § 23; 1975 1st ex.s. c 99 § 11.]
NOTES:

Severability—Effective dates—1981 1st ex.s. c 2: See notes following RCW 18.51.010.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 18 - Businesses and Professions

Chapter 18.51 - Nursing Homes.

18.51.005 - Purpose.

18.51.007 - Legislative intent.

18.51.009 - Resident rights.

18.51.010 - Definitions.

18.51.030 - License required.

18.51.040 - Application for license.

18.51.050 - License—Issuance, renewal—Fee—Display.

18.51.054 - Denial of license.

18.51.060 - Penalties—Grounds.

18.51.062 - Temporary managers—Department shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless.

18.51.065 - Penalties—Hearing (as amended by 1989 c 175).

18.51.067 - License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.

18.51.070 - Rules.

18.51.091 - Inspection of nursing homes and community-based services—Notice of violations—Approval of alterations or new facilities.

18.51.095 - Resident contact information—Department requirements and duties.

18.51.140 - Fire protection—Duties of chief of the Washington state patrol.

18.51.145 - Building inspections—Authority of chief of the Washington state patrol.

18.51.150 - Operating without license—Penalty.

18.51.160 - Operating without license—Injunction.

18.51.170 - Application of chapter to homes or institutions operated by certain religious organizations.

18.51.180 - Outpatient services—Authorized—Defined.

18.51.185 - Outpatient services—Cost studies—Vendor rates.

18.51.190 - Complaint of violation—Request for inspection—Notice—Confidentiality.

18.51.200 - Preliminary review of complaint—On-site investigation.

18.51.210 - Authority to enter and inspect nursing home—Advance notice—Defense.

18.51.220 - Retaliation or discrimination against complainant prohibited, penalty—Presumption.

18.51.230 - Periodic general inspection—Emergency rules.

18.51.240 - Alterations or additions—Preliminary inspection and approval.

18.51.250 - Nursing homes without violations—Public agencies notified—Priority.

18.51.260 - Posting citations for violation of RCW 18.51.060.

18.51.270 - Annual report of citations—Publication—Contents.

18.51.280 - Chapter cumulative.

18.51.290 - Writings as public records.

18.51.300 - Retention and preservation of records of patients.

18.51.310 - Comprehensive plan for utilization review—Licensing standards—Regulations.

18.51.320 - Contact with animals—Rules.

18.51.350 - Conflict with federal requirements.

18.51.400 - Receivership—Legislative findings.

18.51.410 - Receivership—Petition to establish—Grounds.

18.51.420 - Receivership—Defenses to petition.

18.51.430 - Receivership—Persons qualified to act as receiver.

18.51.440 - Receivership—Judicial hearing.

18.51.450 - Receivership—Appointment of receiver.

18.51.460 - Receivership—Termination—Conditions.

18.51.470 - Receivership—Accounting of acts and expenditures by receiver.

18.51.480 - Receivership—Compensation, liability—Revision of medicaid reimbursement rate.

18.51.490 - Receivership—Powers of receiver.

18.51.500 - Receivership—Financial assistance—Use of revenues and proceeds of facility.

18.51.510 - Receivership—State medical assistance.

18.51.520 - Receivership—Foreclosures and seizures not allowed.

18.51.530 - Notice of change of ownership or management.

18.51.540 - Cost disclosure to attending physicians.

18.51.550 - Investigation of complaints of violations concerning nursing technicians.

18.51.560 - Employment of physicians.

18.51.570 - Employment—Certificates of parental improvement.

18.51.575 - Communication system—Telephones and other equipment.

18.51.580 - Disaster preparedness plan.

18.51.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.