The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washington
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RCW 43.06.220(1)(h); chapters 38.08, 38.52, 43.06 RCW
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16
- End
- 2020-04-09 midnight by its terms; amended by 20-17 (Mar. 17, 2020); extended and superseded by 20-66 (Aug. 7, 2020) (read as 2020-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capHealth care orders
- Addressees
- nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult family homes and the other facilities listed
- owners, administrators, operators, staff, contractors and visitors
- Functions reached
- VS visitation
- RS residential care
- IN intake
- CR counseling and clergy visitation
- WF
- Collection
- Washington WA
Operative words
Proclamation 20-06, pertaining to prohibitions on the admission of visitors of residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, is amended [to include a comprehensive list of facilities]... [and] to prohibit owners, administrators, operators, staff, contractors, and [volunteers from allowing any person to enter] the facility to visit a resident. This prohibition does not apply to end of life situations or to visits [required by law]... These prohibitions shall remain in effect until midnight on April 9, 2020.
Enforcement
RCW 43.06.220(5); DSHS licensing
Notes
Total visitor ban for long-term care; reached clergy, hospice, home-care and therapy vendors entering facilities.
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