The department will initiate a response to a report of suspected abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, misappropriation of resident property, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult when the alleged facts and circumstances reasonably fit the definition of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, misappropriation of resident property, neglect, or self-neglect as defined in RCW 74.34.020 or this chapter.
Wash. Admin. Code § 388-103-0020