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
- 2020-11-25 Nov. 25, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-12-03 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-12-03)
- End
- Until the state of emergency is rescinded or the order is amended or rescinded; 20-24.3 (Jan. 13, 2022) reimposed restrictions Jan. 17 - Feb. 17, 2022 (post-period); series rescinded Oct. 27, 2022 (20-24.4) (read as 2022-01-13)
- In force
- Dec. 3, 2020 to Jan. 13, 2022
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all health care, dental and dental specialty facilities, practices, and practitioners
- hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities
- Functions reached
- SX surgery and elective procedures
- PR procedures
- CH chairside care
- ST sterilization and fallow time
- SC PPE
- OC outpatient
- CB patients
- Collection
- Washington WA
Operative words
I hereby prohibit all health care, dental and dental specialty facilities, practices, and practitioners in Washington State from providing non-urgent health care and dental services, procedures, and surgeries, unless they act in good faith and with reasonable clinical judgment to meet and follow the procedures and criteria provided below: Expansion and Contraction of Care Plan. Each health care, dental or dental specialty facility, practice, or practitioner must develop, and maintain, an expansion and contraction of care plan that is both congruent with the community COVID-19 assessment, consistent with the clinical and operational capabilities and capacities of the organization, and responsive to the criteria provided below.
Enforcement
RCW 43.06.220(5); DOH licensing
Notes
Winter 2020-21 tightening for health care: non-urgent services 'must be reduced or stopped until compliance is achieved'; hospitals must report to WA HEALTH; conditions in force through Q3 2021.