2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 74.09.405: Children\'s health program — Purpose.
It is the purpose of RCW
74.09.405 through
74.09.435 and
74.09.010 to provide, consistent with appropriated funds, health care access and services to children in poverty in this state. To this end, a children's health program is established based on the following principles:
(1) Access to preventive and other health care services should be made more readily available for children in poverty.
(2) Unnecessary barriers to health care for children in poverty should be removed.
(3) The status of children's health and their access to health care providers should be evaluated at appropriate intervals to determine program effectiveness and need for modification.
(4) Health care services should be delivered in a cost-effective manner.
(5) The program should be sensitive to cultural and ethnic differences among children in poverty.
[1990 c 296 § 1.]
| Effective date -- 1990 c 296: "This act shall take effect July 1, 1990." [1990 c 296 § 9.]
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