RCW 70.129.050 — Privacy and confidentiality of personal and medical records.
The resident has the right to personal privacy and confidentiality of his or her personal and clinical records.
- (1) Personal privacy includes accommodations, medical treatment, written and telephone communications, personal care, visits, and meetings of family and resident groups. This does not require the facility to provide a private room for each resident however, a resident cannot be prohibited by the facility from meeting with guests in his or her bedroom if no roommates object.
- (2) The resident may approve or refuse the release of personal and clinical records to an individual outside the facility unless otherwise provided by law.
[ 1994 c 214 s 6.]