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2018 Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
70.02 Medical records—Health care information access and disclosure.
70.02.140 Representative of deceased patient.
Universal Citation: WA Rev Code § 70.02.140 (2018)
RCW 70.02.140 Representative of deceased patient.
A personal representative of a deceased patient may exercise all of the deceased patient's rights under this chapter. If there is no personal representative, or upon discharge of the personal representative, a deceased patient's rights under this chapter may be exercised by persons who would have been authorized to make health care decisions for the deceased patient when the patient was living under RCW 7.70.065.
[ 1991 c 335 § 602.]
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