Residential Care Services SHB 1218 Project 1 draft rules are up for informal review (internal and external). These rule changes implement select sections of SHB 1218 and apply to Chapter 388-76 WAC, Chapter 388-78A WAC, Chapter 388-97 WAC, and Chapter 388-107 WAC.

The proposed changes:

• Adopt requirements for providers to publicly post stop placement orders, to meet the minimum requirements set forth in SHB 1218.
• Adopt requirements for providers to create and maintain resident rosters as well as responding to requests from ombuds for roster information. SHB 1218 instructs DSHS to require this from providers.
• Incorporate new definition of “resident representative” that was updated in SHB 1218.
• Replace the phrase “his or her” with appropriate gender-neutral terms to have uniformity in language of our rule text and chapter law.

Please submit all comments to brian.laughlin@dshs.wa.gov. Deadline for comments is July 27, 2022.                                 

View Project 1 Rulemaking web page 

View SHB 1218

Questions?

Contact:

Laura Hofmann, MSN, RN – Director of Clinical and Nursing Facility Regulatory Services
c: 425-231-4804