Washington Administrative Code
Title 246 - Health, Department of
HEALTH PROMOTION AND CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION
Chapter 246-560 - Rural health system project
Section 246-560-011 - Activities
Universal Citation: WA Admin Code 246-560-011
Current through Register Vol. 24-18, September 15, 2024
(1) Health systems development activities include:
(a) The
planning, development, and/or implementation of the infrastructure needed to
support a cost effective health care delivery system. Examples of
infrastructure development include:
(i)
Telemedicine and other communications systems;
(ii) Modeling of managed care
systems;
(iii) Financial business
systems;
(iv) Clinical and quality
assurance systems;
(v) Development
of cooperative agreements and referral arrangements between similar or
dissimilar entities to ensure easy transition between care levels for patients
and their families; and
(vi)
Development of networks of providers and others, organized to share services,
negotiate contracts and, plan new services or service delivery
systems.
(b) The
mobilization of community leaders to design, develop, and implement a project
to maintain or improve the viability of the local health care delivery system.
Examples of community mobilization include:
(i) Leaders from different governmental
jurisdictions evaluate the health care delivery system or parts of the system,
determine where changes are needed, and develop a workplan to affect the
necessary changes;
(ii)
Participants in the health care delivery system determine how to pool resources
to eliminate service duplication or gaps, or, to focus on new identified
priorities; and
(iii) Participants
in the health care delivery system determine how to restructure the system,
including the necessary legal, regulatory, fiscal, or practice actions that
will accomplish the needed change.
(c) The planning, development, or
implementation of a new basic health care service to meet an identified gap in
the health care delivery system. Examples of new service development include:
(i) A service previously unavailable in the
service area; and
(ii) A service
previously unavailable to a portion of the population in the service
area.
(2) Recruitment and retention activities may be funded, only to the extent that matching funds are provided. They include, but are not limited to:
(a) An assessment of community
characteristics or assets, including school systems, housing, churches,
recreational, social and cultural opportunities;
(b) An assessment of the community,
physicians and other health care providers, community leaders and citizens
about the need for new or replacement health care providers;
(c) A staff development plan;
(d) A recruitment plan;
(e) A recruitment and retention financial
plan;
(f) A plan for providing a
new practitioner with sufficient professional, intellectual and emotional
support;
(g) A plan for call
coverage to ensure adequate time off for personal and family
pursuits;
(h) An assessment of
office and hospital facilities, equipment and support personnel to determine if
they are adequate to allow a new practitioner to practice in a high-quality
manner; and
(i) A retention
plan.
Statutory Authority: RCW 70.175.010 - [70.175.]090 and70.185.030 - [70.185.]080. 99-03-043, § 246-560-011, filed 1/14/99, effective 2/14/99.
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