RCW 70.41.520
Access to care policies for admission, nondiscrimination, and reproductive health care—Requirement to submit, post on website, and use department-created form.
(1) By September 1, 2019, every hospital must submit to the department its policies related to access to care regarding:
(a) Admission;
(b) Nondiscrimination; and
(c) Reproductive health care.
(2) The department shall post a copy of the policies received under subsection (1) of this section on its website.
(3) If a hospital makes changes to any of the policies listed under subsection (1) of this section, it must submit a copy of the changed policy to the department within thirty days after the hospital approves the changes.
(4) A hospital must post a copy of the policies provided to the department under subsection (1) of this section and the form required under subsection (5) of this section to the hospital's own website in a location where the policies are readily accessible to the public without a required login or other restriction.
(5) By September 1, 2019, the department shall, in consultation with stakeholders including a hospital association and patient advocacy groups, develop a simple and clear form to be submitted by hospitals along with the policies required in subsection (1) of this section. The form must provide the public with specific information about which reproductive health care services are and are not generally available at each hospital. The form must include contact information for the hospital in case patients have specific questions about services available at the hospital.
[ 2019 c 399 § 4.]
NOTES:
Findings—Short title—2019 c 399: See notes following RCW 74.09.875.
Recommendations—Preexposure and postexposure prophylaxis financial support awareness—2019 c 399: See note following RCW 48.43.072.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 70.41 - Hospital Licensing and Regulation.
70.41.005 - Transfer of duties to the department of health.
70.41.010 - Declaration of purpose.
70.41.030 - Standards and rules.
70.41.040 - Enforcement of chapter—Personnel—Merit system.
70.41.100 - Applications for licenses and renewals—Fees.
70.41.110 - Licenses, provisional licenses—Issuance, duration, assignment, posting.
70.41.115 - Specialty hospitals—Licenses—Exemptions.
70.41.122 - Exemption from RCW 70.41.120 for hospitals accredited by other entities.
70.41.125 - Hospital construction review process—Coordination with state and local agencies.
70.41.130 - Administrative actions against license—Rules—Procedure.
70.41.150 - Denial, suspension, revocation of license—Disclosure of information.
70.41.155 - Duty to investigate patient well-being.
70.41.160 - Remedies available to department—Duty of attorney general.
70.41.180 - Physicians' services.
70.41.190 - Medical records of patients—Retention and preservation.
70.41.220 - Duty to keep records of restrictions on practitioners' privileges—Penalty.
70.41.240 - Information regarding conversion of hospitals to nonhospital health care facilities.
70.41.250 - Cost disclosure to health care providers.
70.41.300 - Long-term care—Definitions.
70.41.322 - Discharge planning—Requirements—Lay caregivers.
70.41.324 - Discharge planning—Certain policies and criteria not required.
70.41.326 - Discharge planning—Construction—Liability.
70.41.330 - Hospital complaint toll-free telephone number.
70.41.340 - Investigation of hospital complaints—Rules.
70.41.365 - Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system—Participation by hospitals.
70.41.367 - Sexual assault evidence kit collection—Availability, plan, and notice requirements.
70.41.370 - Investigation of complaints of violations concerning nursing technicians.
70.41.380 - Notice of unanticipated outcomes.
70.41.390 - Safe patient handling.
70.41.410 - Nurse staffing committee—Definitions.
70.41.420 - Nurse staffing committee.
70.41.425 - Nurse staffing—Department investigations.
70.41.440 - Duty to report violent injuries—Preservation of evidence—Immunity—Privilege.
70.41.450 - Estimated charges of hospital services—Notice.
70.41.460 - Contract with department of corrections.
70.41.480 - Findings—Intent—Authority to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications—Definitions.
70.41.485 - Opioid overdose reversal medications—Distribution—Labeling—Liability.
70.41.500 - Down syndrome—Parent information.