Chapter 72.23. Public and private facilities for mentally ill.  


Section 72.23.010. Definitions.
Section 72.23.020. State hospitals designated.
Section 72.23.025. Eastern and western state hospitals—Primary diagnosis of mental disorder—Duties—Institutes for the study and treatment of mental disorders established.
Section 72.23.027. Integrated service delivery—Incentives to discourage inappropriate placement—Specialized care programs.
Section 72.23.030. Superintendent—Powers—Direction of clinical care, exception.
Section 72.23.035. Background checks of prospective employees.
Section 72.23.040. Seal of hospital.
Section 72.23.050. Superintendent as witness—Exemptions from military duty.
Section 72.23.060. Gifts—Record—Use.
Section 72.23.080. Voluntary patients—Legal competency—Record.
Section 72.23.100. Voluntary patients—Policy—Duration.
Section 72.23.110. Voluntary patients—Limitation as to number.
Section 72.23.120. Voluntary patients—Charges for hospitalization.
Section 72.23.125. Temporary residential observation and evaluation of persons requesting treatment.
Section 72.23.130. History of patient.
Section 72.23.160. Escape—Apprehension and return.
Section 72.23.170. Escape of patient—Penalty for assisting.
Section 72.23.180. Discharge, parole, death, escape—Notice—Certificate of discharge.
Section 72.23.190. Death—Report to coroner.
Section 72.23.200. Persons under eighteen—Confinement in adult wards.
Section 72.23.210. Persons under eighteen—Special wards and attendants.
Section 72.23.230. Patient's property—Superintendent as custodian—Management and accounting.
Section 72.23.240. Patient's property—Delivery to superintendent as acquittance—Defense, indemnity.
Section 72.23.250. Funds donated to patients.
Section 72.23.260. Federal patients—Agreements authorized.
Section 72.23.280. Nonresidents—Hospitalization.
Section 72.23.290. Transfer of patients—Authority of transferee.
Section 72.23.300. Bringing narcotics, intoxicating liquors, weapons, etc., into institution or its grounds prohibited—Penalty.
Section 72.23.390. Safe patient handling.
Section 72.23.400. Workplace safety plan.
Section 72.23.410. Violence prevention training.
Section 72.23.420. Record of violent acts.
Section 72.23.430. Noncompliance—Citation under chapter 49.17 RCW.
Section 72.23.440. Technical assistance and training.
Section 72.23.451. Annual report to the legislature.
Section 72.23.460. Provisions applicable to hospitals governed by chapter.
Section 72.23.900. Construction—Purpose—1959 c 28.
Section 72.23.910. Construction—Effect on laws relating to the criminally insane—"Insane" as used in other statutes.
Section 72.23.920. Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.