The mandate of the Board of Nursing Home Administrators (BNHA) is to protect the public's health and safety by regulating the competency and quality of nursing home administrators under its jurisdiction. The board accomplishes this goal through a variety of activities working with the Department of Health, Health Systems Quality Assurance division.
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Description
The mandate of the Board of Nursing Home Administrators (BNHA) is to protect the public's health and safety by regulating the competency and quality of nursing home administrators under its jurisdiction. The board accomplishes this goal through a variety of activities working with the Department of Health, Health Systems Quality Assurance division.
Board duties include:
- Establishing qualifications for minimal competency to grant or deny licensure of nursing home administrators.
- Regulating the competency and quality of professional health care providers under its jurisdiction by establishing, monitoring and enforcing qualifications for licensure.
- Establishing and monitoring compliance with continuing education requirements.
- Ensuring consistent standards of practice.
- Assessing and making recommendations related to complaints against nursing home administrators including recommendations relating to investigate or take disciplinary action.
- Serving as reviewing members on disciplinary cases and serve on disciplinary hearing panels.
- Serving as members of standing committees, as needed.
- Developing rules, policies and procedures relating to regulation of the profession.
Qualifications
The Board of Nursing Home Administrators consists of six administrators who have been in active practice in this state for at least four years prior to appointment. The board membership also includes three representatives of the health care professions providing medical or nursing services in nursing homes or people employed by educational institutions who have special knowledge or expertise in the field of healthcare administration, healthcare education or long-term care or both.
Two public members must be a resident of a nursing home or a family member of a resident or a person eligible for Medicare.
All members must be residents of Washington State. No member who is a non-administrator representative shall have any direct or family financial interest in a nursing home.
Board participation expectation guidelines
The following expectation guidelines are intended to serve as a reference for current members and for prospective appointees of the board:
- The board meets for one day four times per year. Meetings are generally scheduled in January, April, July, and October. There is an annual Department of Health one-day Board, Commission, and Committee conference.
- Board members are assigned to case disposition panels that meets via phone every two weeks. Only three to four board members are assigned to attend each meeting. In addition, board members who are nursing home administrators are assigned to review individual cases for presentation at case disposition panels.
- Board members may be appointed to sub-committees based on their individual expertise.
- Board members may also attend a three-day professional conference sponsored by the National Association of Long-Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB).
- Board members may be scheduled to conduct a site visit to interview an administrator-in-training (AIT) and their preceptor.
- New board members will be scheduled to attend an orientation.
Total annual time commitment
- Meetings/conferences: Four to six days per year
- Meeting preparation: Two to four hours per meeting
- Complaint file review: 1.5 hours per complaint assigned for review and presentation
- Hearing panels: Disciplinary hearings can last an average of one to three days, but are rare.
Performance guidelines for newly appointed board members
Attend an initial orientation presented by Department of Health staff. This is about a day in length. Initial orientation outlines legal authority of the board, the roles and responsibilities of members, ethics, confidentiality, the legal liability of members and the Department of Health, the organizational structure of the department, roles and responsibilities of department staff, roles and responsibilities of staff attorneys and Assistant Attorneys General (AAGs), disciplinary processes, rule making and other issues.
- Board Members
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Name and term expiration date of members
Members Term Expires Rosalie Romano, PhD, chair
Public memberMay 28, 2024 Nancy Butner, NHA, vice-chair
Nursing home administratorMay 28, 2028 Matthew Macklin, NHA
Nursing home administratorMay 28, 2026 Paul Emmans, DO
Healthcare professionalMay 28, 2026 Jane Davis, NHA
Nursing home administratorMay 28, 2027 Edward Ebling, NHA
Nursing home administratorMay 28, 2027 - Board Meetings
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Regular board meetings are scheduled four times per year. Most meetings are held in Tumwater.
(Times and dates are subject to change)
Date and Location Activity Documents January 2025 - Hybrid at 9 a.m.
Meeting location to be determinedRegular business meeting April 2025 - Hybrid at 9 a.m.
Meeting location to be determinedRegular business meeting July 2025 - Hybrid at 9 a.m.
Meeting location to be determinedRegular business meeting October 2025 - Hybrid at 9 a.m.
Meeting location to be determinedRegular business meeting - Meeting Minutes
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2023