2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 211 STATE HEALTH PROGRAMS 211.684 Authorization to establish state child fatality review team -- Annual report on child fatalities.
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211.684 Authorization to establish state child fatality review team -- Annual report
on child fatalities.
(1) For the purposes of KRS Chapter 211:
(a) "Child fatality" means the death of a person under the age of eighteen (18)
years; and
(b) "Local child fatality response team" and "local team" means a community
team composed of representatives of agencies, offices, and institutions that <br>investigate child deaths, including but not limited to, coroners, social service <br>workers, medical professionals, law enforcement officials, and <br>Commonwealth's and county attorneys.
(2) The Department for Public Health may establish a state child fatality review team.
The state team may include representatives of public health, social services, law <br>enforcement, prosecution, coroners, health-care providers, and other agencies or <br>professions deemed appropriate by the commissioner of the department.
(3) If a state team is created, the duties of the state team may include the following:
(a) Develop and distribute a model protocol for local child fatality response teams
for the investigation of child fatalities;
(b) Facilitate the development of local child fatality response teams which may
include, but is not limited to, providing joint training opportunities and, upon <br>request, providing technical assistance;
(c) Review and approve local protocols prepared and submitted by local teams; <br>(d) Receive data and information on child fatalities and analyze the information to
identify trends, patterns, and risk factors;
(e) Evaluate the effectiveness of prevention and intervention strategies adopted;
and
(f) Recommend changes in state programs, legislation, administrative regulations,
policies, budgets, and treatment and service standards which may facilitate <br>strategies for prevention and reduce the number of child fatalities.
(4) The department shall prepare an annual report to be submitted no later than
November 1 of each year to the Governor, the Legislative Research Commission, <br>the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court, and to be made available to the <br>citizens of the Commonwealth. The report shall include a statistical analysis of the <br>incidence and causes of child fatalities in the Commonwealth during the past fiscal <br>year and recommendations for action. The report shall not include any information <br>which would identify specific child fatality cases.
Effective: July 14, 2000 <br>History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 61, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 311, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1996 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 347, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996.
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