SHB 1218 Disaster Preparedness Rulemaking Project 1 – Informal Request for Comments
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
Questions?
Contact:
Laura Hofmann, MSN, RN – Director of Clinical and Nursing Facility Regulatory Services
c: 425-231-4804