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2019 Revised Code of Washington
Title 72 - State Institutions
Chapter 72.23 - Public and Private Facilities for Mentally Ill.
- 72.23.010 Definitions.
- 72.23.020 State hospitals designated.
- 72.23.025 Eastern and western state hospitals—Primary diagnosis of mental disorder—Duties—Institutes for the study and treatment of mental disorders established.
- 72.23.027 Integrated service delivery—Incentives to discourage inappropriate placement—Specialized care programs.
- 72.23.030 Superintendent—Powers—Direction of clinical care, exception.
- 72.23.035 Background checks of prospective employees.
- 72.23.040 Seal of hospital.
- 72.23.050 Superintendent as witness—Exemptions from military duty.
- 72.23.060 Gifts—Record—Use.
- 72.23.080 Voluntary patients—Legal competency—Record.
- 72.23.100 Voluntary patients—Policy—Duration.
- 72.23.110 Voluntary patients—Limitation as to number.
- 72.23.120 Voluntary patients—Charges for hospitalization.
- 72.23.125 Temporary residential observation and evaluation of persons requesting treatment.
- 72.23.130 History of patient.
- 72.23.160 Escape—Apprehension and return.
- 72.23.170 Escape of patient—Penalty for assisting.
- 72.23.180 Discharge, parole, death, escape—Notice—Certificate of discharge.
- 72.23.190 Death—Report to coroner.
- 72.23.200 Persons under eighteen—Confinement in adult wards.
- 72.23.210 Persons under eighteen—Special wards and attendants.
- 72.23.230 Patient's property—Superintendent as custodian—Management and accounting.
- 72.23.240 Patient's property—Delivery to superintendent as acquittance—Defense, indemnity.
- 72.23.250 Funds donated to patients.
- 72.23.260 Federal patients—Agreements authorized.
- 72.23.280 Nonresidents—Hospitalization.
- 72.23.290 Transfer of patients—Authority of transferee.
- 72.23.300 Bringing narcotics, intoxicating liquors, weapons, etc., into institution or its grounds prohibited—Penalty.
- 72.23.390 Safe patient handling.
- 72.23.400 Workplace safety plan.
- 72.23.410 Violence prevention training.
- 72.23.420 Record of violent acts.
- 72.23.430 Noncompliance—Citation under chapter 49.17 RCW.
- 72.23.440 Technical assistance and training.
- 72.23.451 Annual report to the legislature.
- 72.23.460 Provisions applicable to hospitals governed by chapter.
- 72.23.900 Construction—Purpose—1959 c 28.
- 72.23.910 Construction—Effect on laws relating to the criminally insane—"Insane" as used in other statutes.
- 72.23.920 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
NOTES:
Commitment to veterans' administration or other federal agency: RCW 73.36.165.
County hospitals: Chapter 36.62 RCW.
Division of mental health: Chapter 43.20A RCW.
Mental illness, commitment procedures, rights, etc.: Chapter 71.05 RCW.
Minors—Mental health services, commitment: Chapter 71.34 RCW.
Out-of-state physicians, conditional license to practice in conjunction with institutions: RCW 18.71.095.
Private mental establishments: Chapter 71.12 RCW.
Record as to patients or inmates for purposes of vital statistics: RCW 70.58.270.
Sexual psychopaths: Chapter 71.06 RCW.
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