2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 70.56.030: Department of health — Duties.
(1) The department shall:
(a) Receive and investigate, where necessary, notifications and reports of adverse events, including root cause analyses and corrective action plans submitted as part of reports, and communicate to individual facilities the department's conclusions, if any, regarding an adverse event reported by a facility; and
(b) Adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter.
(2) The department may enforce the reporting requirements of RCW
70.56.020 using their existing enforcement authority provided in chapter
18.46 RCW for childbirth centers, chapter
70.41 RCW for hospitals, and chapter
71.12 RCW for psychiatric hospitals.
[2006 c 8 § 107.]
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