Washington Revised Code Title 18. Businesses and Professions § 18.71.300. Physician health program--Definitions

(1) “Entity” means a nonprofit corporation formed by physicians who have expertise in substance use disorders, mental illness, and other potentially impairing health conditions and who broadly represent the physicians of the state and that has been designated to perform any or all of the activities set forth in RCW 18.71.310(1) by the commission.

(2) “Impaired” or “impairment” means the inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of a health condition.

(3) “Physician health program” means the program for the prevention, detection, intervention, referral for evaluation and treatment, and monitoring of impaired or potentially impaired physicians established by the commission pursuant to RCW 18.71.310(1).