The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washington
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RCW 43.06.220(2); chapters 38.08, 38.52, 43.06 RCW
- Issued
- 2021-09-03 Sept. 3, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-09-03
- End
- 2021-10-02 11:59 p.m. by its terms; extended by 21-15.1 and 21-15.2 (read as 2021-10-02)
- In force
- Sept. 3, 2021 to Oct. 2, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care orders
- Addressees
- nursing homes
- hospitals discharging patients to long-term care
- residents
- Functions reached
- IP inpatient surge capacity
- IN intake and referrals (discharges)
- RS residential care (cohorting)
- CB
- Collection
- Washington WA
Operative words
[Proclamation 20-05 is] amended to waive and suspend certain statutory and regulatory provisions that prevent, hinder, or delay [the ability to] transfer or discharge nursing home residents to other long-term care facilities for specific COVID-19 [related reasons]... hereby waived and suspended until 11:59 p.m. on October 2, 2021
Enforcement
Notes
Recites that 'the Delta variant of COVID-19 is placing unprecedented demands on our health care system, requiring certain transfers or discharges of nursing home residents be expedited to allow grouping' of COVID-positive residents; Q3 2021 hospital-capacity instrument.
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