(1) The department may recruit individuals, partnerships, corporations and other entities interested in serving as a temporary manager or receiver of a nursing home.

(2) Individuals, partnerships, corporations, or other entities interested in being appointed as a temporary manager or receiver must complete and submit to the department the required application on department forms.

(3) Individuals, partnerships, corporations, or other entities with experience in providing long-term health care and a history of satisfactory nursing home operation may submit an application to the department at any time. Applicants will be subject to the criteria established for licensees found in WAC 388-97-4220, except the department may waive the requirement that it have at least sixty days to review the application.

(4) The department must not appoint or recommend the appointment of a person (including partnership, corporation or other entity) to be a temporary manager or receiver if that person:

(a) Is the licensee, administrator, or partner, officer, director, managing employee, or owner of five percent or more of the licensee of the nursing home subject to temporary management or receivership;

(b) Is affiliated with the nursing home subject to temporary management or receivership; or

(c) Has owned or operated a nursing home ordered into temporary management or receivership in any state.