PERMANENT RULES
(Board of Nursing Home Administrators)
Date of Adoption: November 19, 1999.
Purpose: Amendatory section clarifies board intent that an administrator be full time and on site at the nursing home where the administrator is in charge.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 246-843-205.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 18.52 RCW.
Other Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 99-20-058 on October 1, 1999.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
November 24, 1999
Barbara A. Hayes
Program Manager
OTS-2347.2
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 95-07-128, filed 3/22/95,
effective 4/22/95)
WAC 246-843-205
Standards of conduct.
Licensed nursing home administrators shall be on-site full time and in active administrative charge of the licensed nursing home, as licensed under chapter 18.51 RCW, in which they have consented to serve as administrator.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 18.52.061. 95-07-128, § 246-843-205, filed 3/22/95, effective 4/22/95; 93-13-004 (Order 371B), § 246-843-205, filed 6/3/93, effective 7/4/93. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.52.100. 91-24-050 (Order 217B), § 246-843-205, filed 11/27/91, effective 12/28/91; 91-06-060 (Order 141B), recodified as § 246-843-205, filed 3/1/91, effective 4/1/91; Order PL 164, § 308-54-205, filed 3/27/74.]