(c) Health or personal care facility. Health
or personal care facility refers to buildings or parts of buildings that
contain, but are not limited to, facilities that are required to be licensed by
the department of social and health services or the department of health (e.g.,
hospitals, nursing homes, private alcoholism hospitals, private psychiatric
hospitals, boarding homes, alcoholism treatment facilities, maternity homes,
birth centers or childbirth centers, residential treatment facilities for
psychiatrically impaired children and youths, and renal hemodialysis clinics)
and medical, dental, or chiropractic offices or clinics, outpatient or
ambulatory surgical clinics, and such other health care occupancies where
patients who may be unable to provide for their own needs and safety without
the assistance of another person are treated.
(i) "Hospital" means any institution, place,
building, or agency providing accommodations, facilities, and services over a
continuous period of twenty-four hours or more, for observation, diagnosis, or
care of two or more individuals not related to the operator who are suffering
from illness, injury, deformity, abnormality, or from any other condition for
which obstetrical, medical, or surgical services would be appropriate for care
or diagnosis.
(ii) "Nursing home,"
"nursing home unit" or "long-term care unit" means a group of beds for the
accommodation of patients who, because of chronic illness or physical
infirmities, require skilled nursing care and related medical services but are
not acutely ill and not in need of the highly technical or specialized services
ordinarily a part of hospital care.
(iii) "Boarding home" means any home or other
institution, however named, which is advertised, announced, or maintained for
the express or implied purpose of providing board and domiciliary care to seven
or more aged persons not related by blood or marriage to the operator. It must
not include any home, institution, or section thereof which is otherwise
licensed and regulated under the provisions of state law providing specifically
for the licensing and regulation of such home, institution, or section
thereof.
(iv) "Enhanced service
facility (ESF)" means a facility, or a portion of a facility, that provides
treatment and services to persons for whom acute inpatient treatment is not
medically necessary and who have been determined by the depart-ment to be
inappropriate for placement in other licensed facilities due to the complex
needs that result in behavioral and security issues. For the purposes of this
chapter, an enhanced services facility is not an evaluation and treatment
facility certified under chapter 71.05 RCW.
(v) "Private alcoholism hospital" means an
institution, facility, building, or equivalent designed, organized, maintained,
or operated to provide diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals
demonstrating signs or symptoms of alcoholism, including the complications of
associated substance use and other medical diseases that can be appropriately
treated and cared for in the facility and providing accommodations, medical
services, or other necessary services over a continuous period of twenty-four
hours or more for two or more individuals unrelated to the operator, provided
that this chapter will not apply to any facility, agency, or other entity which
is owned and operated by a public or governmental body.
(vi) "Private psychiatric hospital" means a
privately owned and operated establishment or institution which: Provides
accommodations and services over a continuous period of twenty-four hours or
more, and is expressly and exclusively for observing, diagnosing, or caring for
two or more individuals with signs or symptoms of mental illness who are not
related to the licensee.
(vii)
"Maternity home" means any home, place, hospital, or institution in which
facilities are maintained for the care of four or more women, not related by
blood or marriage to the operator, during pregnancy or during or within ten
days after delivery: Provided, however, that this definition will not apply to
any hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons, American Osteopathic
Association, or its successor.
(viii) "Birth center" or "childbirth center"
means a type of maternity home which is a house, building, or equivalent
organized to provide facilities and staff to support a birth service provided
that the birth service is limited to low-risk maternal clients during the
intrapartum period.
(ix)
"Ambulatory surgical facility" means a facility, not a part of a hospital,
providing surgical treatment to patients not requiring inpatient care in a
hospital.
(x) "Hospice care center"
means any building, facility, place, or equivalent, organized, maintained, or
operated specifically to provide beds, accommodations, facilities, or services
over a continuous period of twenty-four hours or more for palliative care of
two or more individuals, not related to the operator, who are diagnosed as
being in the latter stages of an advanced disease which is expected to lead to
death.
(xi) "Renal hemodialysis
clinic" means a facility in a building or part of a building which is approved
to furnish the full spectrum of diagnostic, therapeutic, or rehabilitative
services required for the care of renal dialysis patients (including inpatient
dialysis furnished directly or under arrangement). (NEC: Ambulatory Health Care
Occupancy.)
(xii) "Medical, dental,
and chiropractic clinic" means any clinic or physicians' office where patients
are not regularly kept as bed patients for twenty-four hours or more.
Electrical plan review is not required.
(xiii) "Residential treatment facility" means
a facility licensed and operated twenty-four hours per day to provide health
care to persons receiving services for a mental disorder or substance
abuse.
(xiv) "Group care facility"
means a facility other than a foster-family home maintained or operated for the
care of a group of children on a twenty-four-hour basis.
Plan review for educational, institutional, or health
care facilities/buildings.