Facilities Reviewed by CRS

Facilities for which CRS plan review is required are shown in the table below. We provide technical assistance-based plan review for facilities such as kidney dialysis, unlicensed ambulatory surgery and similar health care-based building types.

Agency/Facility Type Rules
Agency/Facility Type Ambulatory surgery facilities1,3 Rules Chapter 246-330-WAC
Agency/Facility Type Assisted living facilities2 (formerly boarding homes)
  • Contracted residential care services
Rules

Chapter 388-78A WAC
Chapter 388-110 WAC

Agency/Facility Type Childbirth centers (as maternity homes)1 Rules Chapter 246-329 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Critical access hospitals13 Rules Chapter 246-320 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Enhanced services facility Rules Chapter 388-107  WAC
Agency/Facility Type Hospice care centers1, 3 Rules Chapter 246-335 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Hospitals1, 3 Rules Chapter 246-320 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Mobile health care units licensed under a hospital3 Rules Chapter 246-320 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Nursing homes, including soldiers and veterans homes1, 23 Rules Chapter 388-97 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Pharmacy: Hospital and nursing home-based1 Rules Chapter 246-320 WAC and Chapter 388-97 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Private alcohol and chemical dependency (PACD) hospitals1 Rules Chapter 246-324 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Psychiatric hospitals1, 3 Rules Chapter 246-322 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Residential treatment facilities, including:1
  • Withdrawal management facility services - Adult and Youth
  • Secure withdrawal management and stabilization services - Adult and Youth
  • Intensive substance use disorder inpatient services
  • Low-intensity (recovery house) residential treatment services
  • Long-term treatment services
  • Youth residential services
  • Evaluation and treatment services -  Adult and Youth
  • Intensive behavioral health treatment services
  • Child long-term inpatient program services
  • Crisis stabilization unit services
  • Triage - Involuntary services and Voluntary
  • Competency evaluation and restoration treatment services
  • Pediatric transitional care
Rules Chapter 246-337 WAC
Agency/Facility Type Temporary worker housing1
  • Construction standard
  • Cherry harvest camps
Rules

Chapter 246-359 WAC 
Chapter 246-358 WAC
Chapter 246-361 WAC

1 Facilities are licensed by the Department of Health.

2 Facilities are licensed by the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS).

3 More information about Certificate of Need (CoN) is on its website

4 "The Guidelines" are adopted by reference in Chapter 246-320 WAC. To purchase a copy, see www.fgiguidelines.org

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