What does a Washington surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?

Required plan contents (Chapter 388-78A WAC). Train on hire, review annually — both the staff and the plan (Chapter 388-78A WAC). Source: Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services. Last checked July 2026.

Washington survey readiness

What Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

The building

Washington requirements loaded — the rules below are Washington’s own.

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0 of 29 ready.

29 of the outstanding items are the ones a survey opens with.

Washington — Assisted Living Facility

What Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services can ask for, each cited. Checked July 2026.

Goes in the planIs the section written, and does it say what the rule requires?

Required plan contents

A written emergency preparedness plan describing what to do in emergencies or disasters, including events requiring sheltering in place or evacuation. It must cover communicating emergency information to staff, residents and external partners; maintaining resident care and treatment needs; and providing essential resident needs and supplies including water, food, medications and personal care items.

Chapter 388-78A WAC · Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services

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Train on hire, review annually — both the staff and the plan

All employees are trained in the comprehensive emergency preparedness plan and staff procedures on hire, with an annual review thereafter, and the plan and procedures themselves must be reviewed and updated at least annually.

Chapter 388-78A WAC · Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services

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Must be done, on a scheduleWhen did it last happen, and was that inside the interval?

Train on hire, review annually — both the staff and the plan

Chapter 388-78A WAC · Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services

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What Washington requires

Assisted Living Facility — Assisted living / residential care

Required plan contents. A written emergency preparedness plan describing what to do in emergencies or disasters, including events requiring sheltering in place or evacuation. It must cover communicating emergency information to staff, residents and external partners; maintaining resident care and treatment needs; and providing essential resident needs and supplies including water, food, medications and personal care items. Chapter 388-78A WAC
Train on hire, review annually — both the staff and the plan. All employees are trained in the comprehensive emergency preparedness plan and staff procedures on hire, with an annual review thereafter, and the plan and procedures themselves must be reviewed and updated at least annually. Chapter 388-78A WAC

Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Washington fire drill log produces the drill record at the frequency this state sets, the emergency plan builder writes the plan itself from the same research, and the compliance calendar puts the life-safety tests on dates. Anything you record against the building shows up on the checklist already ticked.

Everything else we’ve researched about Washington

Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.

A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Washington State DSHS — Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Residential Care Services and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.