RCW 18.51.560
Employment of physicians.
(1) A nursing home licensed under this chapter may employ physicians for the provision of professional services to its residents under the following conditions:
(a) The nursing home may not in any manner, directly or indirectly, supplant, diminish, or regulate any employed physician's judgment concerning the practice of medicine or the diagnosis and treatment of any patient; and
(b) The employed physicians may provide professional services only to residents of the nursing home or a related living facility.
(2) The employment of physicians as authorized by this section may be through the following entities:
(a) The entity licensed to operate the nursing home; or
(b) A separate entity authorized to conduct business in the state of Washington that has common or overlapping ownership as an affiliate or subsidiary of the licensee, as long as the licensee complies with subsection (3) of this section.
(3) Nothing in this section relieves the licensee of its ultimate responsibility for the daily operations of the nursing home.
(4) Nothing in this section may be construed to interfere with the federal resident rights requirements found in 42 C.F.R. 483.10, or successor rules, or found in this chapter, chapter 74.42 RCW, or the rules adopted by the department addressing resident's rights under this chapter or chapter 74.42 RCW.
(5) As used in this section, "related living facility" means (a) a separate nursing home that is owned, controlled, or managed by the same or an affiliated or subsidiary entity; or (b) a facility that (i) provides independent living services or *boarding home services under chapter 18.20 RCW, in a single contiguous campus as the nursing home, and (ii) is owned, controlled, or managed by the same or related entity as the nursing home. For purposes of this subsection "contiguous" means land adjoining or touching property on which the nursing home is located, including land divided by a public road.
[ 2011 c 228 § 1.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The term "boarding home" was changed to "assisted living facility" by 2012 c 10.
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.