WSR 16-19-062 PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES (Aging and Long-Term Support Administration) [Filed September 19, 2016, 12:35 a.m.]
Subject of Possible Rule Making: The department is proposing to add new sections, repeal existing sections, and amend sections in chapter 388-107 WAC, Licensing requirements for enhanced services facilities, related to tuberculosis screening including WAC 388-107-0440, 388-107-0450, 388-107-0460, 388-107-0465, 388-107-0470, 388-107-0480, 388-107-0490, 388-107-0500, 388-107-0510, 388-107-0520, 388-107-0530, 388-107-0540, 388-107-0542, and other related rules as may be required.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: These rules have not been updated in seven years or more and are unclear, ambiguous, and inaccurate. The rules need to be updated to include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, as well as the department of health regulations. These rule changes will create consistent regulations across the residential care services programs.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: The Washington department of health collaborates and coordinates closely with the department of social and health services (DSHS), residential care services to develop regulations of the requirements associated with tuberculosis in chapter 388-107 WAC, Licensing requirements for enhanced services facilities, and other related rules as may be necessary.
Process for Developing New Rule: DSHS welcomes the public to take part in developing the rules. Anyone interested should contact the staff person identified below. At a later date, DSHS will file a proposal with the office of the code reviser with a notice of proposed rule making. A copy of the proposal will be sent to everyone on the mailing list and to anyone who requests a copy.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Jeanette K. Childress, Long-Term Care Policy Program Manager, Residential Care Services, P.O. Box 45600, Olympia, WA 98504-5600, phone (360) 725-2591, fax (360) 438-7903, e-mail childjk@dshs.wa.gov.
Draft section language will be posted on aging and long-term support administration professional internet web page for review and comment prior to filing the CR-102. Anyone from the public can comment directly to the program manager listed above via phone, e-mail or fax.
September 16, 2016
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
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