WAC 388-76-10225. Reporting requirement

(1) The adult family home must ensure all staff: (a) Report suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, or abandonment of a resident: (i) As required by chapter 74.34 RCW; (ii) To the department by calling the complaint toll-free hotline number or completing an online report; and (iii) To the local law enforcement agency when required by RCW 74.34.035 . (b) Report the following to the department by calling the complaint toll-free hotline number or completing an online report: (i) Any actual or potential event requiring any resident to be evacuated; (ii) Conditions that threaten the provider's or entity representative's ability to continue to provide care or services to each resident; and (iii) A missing resident. (2) When there is a significant change in a resident's condition, or a serious injury, trauma, or death of a resident, the adult family home must immediately notify: (a) The resident's family; (b) The resident's representative, if one exists; (c) The resident's health care provider; (d) Other appropriate professionals working with the resident; (e) Persons identified in the negotiated care plan; and (f) The resident's case manager if the resident is a department client. (3) Whenever an outbreak of suspected food poisoning or communicable disease occurs, the adult family home must notify: (a) The local public health officer; and (b) The department's complaint toll-free hotline number or online reporting system. (4) The adult family home must notify the department's case management office within 24 hours whenever a resident, whose stay is paid for by the department is discharged for more than 24 hours on medical leave to a nursing home or hospital. (5) The adult family home licensed for seven or eight beds that does not have an automatic fire sprinkler system must notify the department's complaint toll-free hotline number or complete an online report when any resident in the home requires assistance with evacuation as defined in WAC 388-76-10870 .