RCW 18.51.300
Retention and preservation of records of patients.
Unless specified otherwise by the department, a nursing home shall retain and preserve all records which relate directly to the care and treatment of a patient for a period of no less than eight years following the most recent discharge of the patient; except the records of minors, which shall be retained and preserved for a period of no less than three years following attainment of the age of eighteen years, or ten years following such discharge, whichever is longer.
If a nursing home ceases operations, it shall make immediate arrangements, as approved by the department, for preservation of its records.
The department shall by regulation define the type of records and the information required to be included in the records to be retained and preserved under this section; which records may be retained in photographic form pursuant to chapter 5.46 RCW.
[ 1995 1st sp.s. c 18 § 44; 1981 1st ex.s. c 2 § 24; 1975 1st ex.s. c 175 § 2.]
NOTES:
Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—Effective date—1995 1st sp.s. c 18: See notes following RCW 74.39A.030.
Severability—Effective dates—1981 1st ex.s. c 2: See notes following RCW 18.51.010.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 18.51 - Nursing Homes.
18.51.007 - Legislative intent.
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.
18.51.095 - 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.
18.51.180 - 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.