PDFWAC 246-310-720
Hospital volume standards.
(1) Hospitals with an elective PCI program must perform a minimum of two hundred adult PCIs per year by the end of the third year of operation and each year thereafter.
(2) The department shall only grant a certificate of need to new programs within the identified planning area if:
(a) The state need forecasting methodology projects unmet volumes sufficient to establish one or more programs within a planning area; and
(b) All existing PCI programs in that planning area are meeting or exceeding the minimum volume standard.