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216.865 Licensing required -- Administrative regulations.
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No nursing pool shall be operated, maintained, or advertised without obtaining
a license as provided in this section.
The secretary shall adopt administrative regulations relating to license fees,
standards of care and service, and procedures for enforcement of penalties.
The established standards of care and services shall at a minimum include:
(a) Written policies and procedures which must be maintained by each
nursing pool;
(b) Records which must be maintained to assure that the criteria
promulgated by administrative regulations are being met; and
(c) Personnel policies which shall be developed and which shall include at a
minimum: a personal interview, thorough reference check, annual
evaluation of employees based on questionnaires developed and sent to
hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities to which medical personnel
are sent.
Upon employment or contract with a nursing pool, all medical personnel
working in health care facilities shall be required to provide the following: a
current negative tuberculin skin test or chest X-ray, a current license or
certificate, where applicable, and a current cardiopulmonary resuscitation
certification. Further, all medical personnel shall attend an annual infection
control in-service and an annual safety in-service.
Only those nursing pools meeting the standards prescribed for licensure by the
secretary may be granted a license.
Each application for a license shall be made to the Division of Community
Health Services and shall be accompanied by a fee prescribed by the secretary
and shall be renewed annually upon expiration and reapplication when
accompanied by an additional fee. Licenses and renewals thereof shall expire
one (1) year from their effective date.
Any license or application affected by an adverse determination by the division
or the secretary shall have the same rights of appeal as set forth in KRS
216.567.
All fees collected under the provisions of this section shall be paid into the
State Treasury and credited to a fund for the purposes of funding the division.
All inspections of nursing pools by the division shall be unannounced.
Effective:June 21, 2001
History: Amended 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 7, effective June 21, 2001. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 116, effective July 15, 1996. --Created 1988 Ky.
Acts ch. 342, sec. 3, effective January 1, 1989.
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