RCW 70.40.020
Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Secretary" means the secretary of the state department of health;
(2) "The federal act" means Title VI of the public health service act, as amended, or as hereafter amended by congress;
(3) "The surgeon general" means the surgeon general of the public health service of the United States;
(4) "Hospital" includes public health centers and general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, and other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses' home and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals;
(5) "Public health center" means a publicly owned facility for the provision of public health services, including related facilities such as laboratories, clinics, and administrative offices operated in connection with public health centers;
(6) "Nonprofit hospital" and "nonprofit medical facility" means any hospital or medical facility owned and operated by a corporation or association, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual;
(7) "Medical facilities" means diagnostic or diagnostic and treatment centers, rehabilitation facilities and nursing homes as those terms are defined in the federal act.
[ 1991 c 3 § 331; 1979 c 141 § 96; 1959 c 252 § 2; 1949 c 197 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 6090-61.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 70.40 - Hospital and Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act.
70.40.005 - Transfer of duties to the department of health.
70.40.030 - Section of hospital and medical facility survey and construction established—Duties.
70.40.040 - General duties of the secretary.
70.40.060 - Development of program for construction of facilities needed.
70.40.070 - Distribution of facilities.
70.40.080 - Federal funds—Application for—Deposit, use.
70.40.090 - State plan—Publication—Hearing—Approval by surgeon general—Modifications.
70.40.100 - Plan shall provide for construction in order of relative needs.
70.40.110 - Minimum standards for maintenance and operation.
70.40.120 - Applications for construction projects—Diagnostic, treatment centers.
70.40.140 - Inspection of project under construction—Certification as to federal funds due.
70.40.150 - Hospital and medical facility construction fund—Deposits, use.