RCW 18.51.580
Disaster preparedness plan.
(1) Each nursing home shall develop and maintain a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan to be followed in the event of a disaster or emergency, including fires, earthquakes, floods, infectious disease outbreaks, loss of power or water, and other events that may require sheltering in place, evacuations, or other emergency measures to protect the health and safety of residents. The nursing home shall review the comprehensive disaster preparedness plan annually, update the plan as needed, and train all employees when they begin work in the nursing home on the comprehensive disaster preparedness plan and related staff procedures.
(2) The department shall adopt rules governing the comprehensive disaster preparedness plan. At a minimum, the rules must address the following if not already adequately addressed by federal requirements for emergency planning: Timely communication with the residents' emergency contacts; timely communication with state and local agencies, long-term care ombuds, and developmental disabilities ombuds; contacting and requesting emergency assistance; on-duty employees' responsibilities; meeting residents' essential needs; procedures to identify and locate residents; and procedures to provide emergency information to provide for the health and safety of residents. In addition, the rules shall establish standards for maintaining personal protective equipment and infection control capabilities, as well as department inspection procedures with respect to the plans.
[ 2021 c 159 § 11.]
NOTES:
Findings—2021 c 159: See note following RCW 18.20.520.
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.