RCW 43.70.705
Fall prevention program.
Within funds appropriated for this purpose, the department shall develop a statewide fall prevention program. The program shall include networking community services, identifying service gaps, making affordable senior-based, evaluated exercise programs more available, providing consumer education to older adults, their adult children, and the community at large, and conducting professional education on fall risk identification and reduction.
[ 2008 c 146 § 7.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Severability—2008 c 146: See notes following RCW 74.41.040.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.70 - Department of Health.
43.70.020 - Department created.
43.70.030 - Secretary of health.
43.70.040 - Secretary's powers—Rule-making authority—Report to the legislature.
43.70.041 - Five-year formal review process of existing rules.
43.70.045 - Warren Featherstone Reid Award for Excellence in Health Care.
43.70.047 - Warren Featherstone Reid Award for Excellence in Health Care.
43.70.050 - Collection, use, and accessibility of health-related data.
43.70.053 - Hospital consolidated annual income—Reporting.
43.70.054 - Health care data standards—Submittal of standards to legislature.
43.70.060 - Duties of department—Promotion of health care cost-effectiveness.
43.70.068 - Quality assurance—Interagency cooperation.
43.70.070 - Duties of department—Analysis of health services.
43.70.075 - Identity of whistleblower protected—Remedy for retaliatory action—Definitions—Rules.
43.70.080 - Transfer of powers and duties from the department of social and health services.
43.70.090 - Authority to administer oaths and issue subpoenas—Provisions governing subpoenas.
43.70.097 - Enforcement in accordance with RCW 43.05.100 and 43.05.110.
43.70.110 - License fees—Costs—Other charges—Waiver.
43.70.115 - Licenses—Denial, suspension, revocation, modification.
43.70.120 - Federal programs—Rules—Statutes to be construed to meet federal law.
43.70.125 - Health care facility certification—Unfunded federal mandates—Applicant fees.
43.70.130 - Powers and duties of secretary—General.
43.70.140 - Annual conference of health officers.
43.70.150 - Registration of vital statistics.
43.70.190 - Violations—Injunctions and legal proceedings authorized.
43.70.195 - Public water systems—Receivership actions brought by secretary—Plan for disposition.
43.70.210 - Right of person to rely on prayer to alleviate ailments not abridged.
43.70.220 - Transfer of powers and duties from the department of licensing.
43.70.230 - Office of health consumer assistance created—Duties.
43.70.240 - Written operating agreements.
43.70.250 - License fees for professions, occupations, and businesses.
43.70.270 - License moratorium for persons in the service—Rules.
43.70.290 - Funeral directors and embalmers subject to chapter 18.130 RCW.
43.70.310 - Cooperation with department of ecology.
43.70.323 - Hospital infection control grant account.
43.70.327 - Public health supplemental account—Annual statement.
43.70.334 - Temporary worker housing—Definition.
43.70.337 - Temporary worker housing building permit—Plans and specifications—Fees—Rules.
43.70.400 - Head injury prevention—Legislative finding.
43.70.410 - Head injury prevention—Program, generally.
43.70.420 - Head injury prevention—Information preparation.
43.70.435 - Diagnosed concussions of students—Report.
43.70.440 - Head injury prevention act—Short title—1990 c 270.
43.70.444 - Washington plan for suicide prevention—Steering committee—Report.
43.70.446 - Suicide-safer homes project—Suicide-safer homes project account.
43.70.470 - Retired health care provider liability malpractice insurance—Conditions.
43.70.480 - Emergency medical personnel—Futile treatment and natural death directives—Guidelines.
43.70.495 - Telemedicine training for health care professionals.
43.70.500 - Health care services practice indicators and risk management protocols.
43.70.510 - Health care services coordinated quality improvement program—Rules.
43.70.512 - Public health system—Foundational public health services—Intent.
43.70.515 - Foundational public health services—Funding.
43.70.525 - Immunization assessment and enhancement proposals by local jurisdictions.
43.70.526 - Childhood immunizations—Resources for expecting parents.
43.70.533 - Chronic conditions—Training and technical assistance for primary care providers.
43.70.540 - Data collection—Legislative finding and intent.
43.70.545 - Data collection and reporting rules.
43.70.550 - Public health services improvement plan—Contents.
43.70.555 - Assessment standards.
43.70.560 - Media violence—Reporting reduction efforts.
43.70.590 - American Indian health care delivery plan.
43.70.595 - Health equity zones.
43.70.600 - Survey regarding exposure to radio frequencies—Results.
43.70.605 - Personal wireless services—Random testing on power density analysis—Rules.
43.70.610 - Domestic violence education program—Established—Findings.
43.70.613 - Health care professionals—Health equity continuing education.
43.70.617 - Prenatal nutrition best practices—Educational resources for pregnant women.
43.70.619 - Pregnancy complications—Informational resources.
43.70.620 - List of contacts—Health care professions.
43.70.630 - Cost-reimbursement agreements.
43.70.640 - Workplace breastfeeding policies—Infant-friendly designation.
43.70.645 - Donor human milk—Milk bank safety standards.
43.70.650 - School sealant endorsement program—Rules—Fee—Report to the legislature.
43.70.660 - Product safety education.
43.70.665 - Early detection breast and cervical cancer screening program—Medical advisory committee.
43.70.670 - Human immunodeficiency virus insurance program.
43.70.675 - Public health advisory board.
43.70.680 - Volunteers for emergency or disaster assistance.
43.70.690 - State asthma plan.
43.70.705 - Fall prevention program.
43.70.715 - COVID-19 public health response account.
43.70.720 - Universal vaccine purchase account.
43.70.725 - Health extension program—Dissemination of evidence-based tools and resources—Rules.
43.70.738 - Down syndrome resources—Development.
43.70.740 - Adjudicative proceedings.
43.70.765 - Opioid drugs—Warning—Patient education materials.
43.70.770 - State opioid response plan.
43.70.780 - Fruit and vegetable incentives program.
43.70.790 - Health care facility inspection and investigation availability.
43.70.800 - Oversight, consolidation, and standardization—Review.
43.70.810 - Provision of medical information—Dissemination of requirements and authority.
43.70.815 - Environmental health disparities map.
43.70.820 - Environmental justice obligations of the department of health.
43.70.825 - School-based health center program office.
43.70.835 - Lead contamination in drinking water in school buildings—State-tribal compact schools.
43.70.840 - Lead contamination in drinking water in school buildings—Technical guidance.
43.70.850 - Suicide-safer homes task force.
43.70.901 - References to the director or department of licensing—1989 1st ex.s. c 9.
43.70.902 - References to the hospital commission—1989 1st ex.s. c 9.