2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - CHAPTER 216B LICENSURE AND REGULATION OF HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES

• .010   Legislative findings and purposes.
• .015   Definitions for chapter.
• .017   Health facility not to discriminate against physician on basis of degree in medicine or osteopathy.
• .020   Certificate of need -- Exemptions -- Requirements for issuance of certificate of need.
• .021   Authorization for two 120-bed nursing homes in western and eastern Kentucky.
• .025   Commission of Health Economics Control in Kentucky.
• .030   Principal office of commission.
• .035   Administrative staff assistance -- Records -- Oaths.
• .040   Functions of cabinet in administering chapter -- Regulatory authority.
• .0415   Jurisdiction of State Board of Medical Licensure over physician's acting as medical director for an ambulance service.
• .0417   Jurisdiction of State Board of Nursing over registered nurse practicing with an ambulance service.
• .042   Licenses -- Authority to enter upon premises -- Authority for administrative regulations.
• .0422   Hospital's outpatient health facility -- Licensure and certificate-of-need requirements.
• .0431   Licensing and procedures for abortion facilities -- Administrative regulations.
• .0435   Requirement of written agreements between abortion facility and acute-care hospital and ambulance service.
• .0441   Cabinet to license and regulate adult day care health programs.
• .0443   Administrative regulations on adult day health care.
• .0445   Outpatient health facility operated by hospital -- Licensure -- Certificate of need.
• .045   Actions of cabinet to be in writing and of record.
• .050   Enforcement powers of cabinet.
• .055   Notice of decisions and orders of cabinet.
• .060  Repealed, 1982.
• .061   Actions requiring certificates of need -- Prohibitions against dividing projects to evade expenditure minimums and against ex parte contacts.
• .0615   Prohibition against transferring a certificate of need -- Penalty.
• .062   Timetable for submission of application for certificate of need to be established by administrative regulation -- Review procedure.
• .065   Notification of intent to acquire facility or equipment -- Conditions requiring a certificate of need for acquisition.
• .066   Cabinet to be notified prior to acquiring certain major medical equipment, a health service is offered, or a capital expenditure is made or obligated -- Certificate of need may be required.
• .070  Repealed, 1990.
• .071   Long-term care facilities for patients with Alzheimer's disease exempt from certificate of need.
• .072   Training for staff of long-term care facilities treating persons with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders.
• .075   Administrative regulations governing application and review procedures to be promulgated.
• .080  Repealed, 1982.
• .085   Hearing procedures -- Notification of cabinet's decisions -- Appeals.
• .086   Revocation of certificate of need -- Hearings -- Prohibition against ex parte contacts.
• .090   Reconsideration of cabinet's decisions.
• .095   Nonsubstantive review of application.
• .100  Repealed, 1982.
• .105   License procedure -- Hearings -- Decisions of cabinet to be in writing and of record.
• .107   Repealed, 1996
• .110  Repealed, 1982.
• .115   Appeal to Franklin Circuit Court.
• .120   Judicial appeals -- Bonds -- Costs.
• .125   Civil action for judicial enforcement of chapter.
• .130   Expenditure minimums or limits to be adjusted annually.
• .131   Use of moneys.
• .135   Creation of Task Force on Health Care Cost and Quality.
• .140   Licensed hospitals to provide services for child sexual abuse victims.
• .145   Repealed, 1996.
• .150   Badge or insignia for hospital employees.
• .155   Development of quality assurance standards for health care facilities.
• .160   Requirement for a care delivery model based on patient needs for licensed health care facilities and services.
• .165   Duty to report quality of care and safety problems -- Investigation and report -- Prohibition against retaliation.
• .170   Identification requirement for persons dealing with patients.
• .175   Services by a physician assistant or advanced registered nurse practitioner for patient admitted to acute care or psychiatric hospital -- Transferability of history and physical examination to another licensed level of care within same hospital -- Administrative regulations.
• .176   School-based health care programs provided by not-for-profit primary care centers.
• .177   Moratorium -- Establishment of additional satellite school-based health care programs.
• .180   Certificate of need not required for respite-service beds in intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded.
• .182   Conversion of licensed nursing home beds to licensed intermediate care facility beds between July 1, 2004, and September 1, 2005.
• .185   Accreditation as evidence of compliance with licensing requirements -- Exemption from inspection -- Fees -- Submission of building plans -- Standards for licensure.
• .190   Newborn infant -- Treatment when identity of parents is unknown -- Immunity from liability -- Anonymity of person leaving infant -- Emergency custody order -- Materials for health and medical information.
• .195   Residential hospice facilities -- Automated pharmacy system.

Itemized Statement of Charges

• .250   Health facility to furnish itemized statement of charges on request of paying patient.

Boarding Homes

• .300   Definitions for KRS 216B.300 to 216B.320 and KRS 216B.990(7).
• .303   Rights of residents of boarding homes.
• .305   Registration of boarding home -- Standards for operation -- Unannounced inspection -- Denial of registration -- Access by cabinet employees and agents -- No preemption of local authority for stricter requirements.
• .306   Procedures, remedies, and penalties for operation of boarding home without registration.
• .310   Listing of boarding homes to be maintained.
• .315   Student housing not included in KRS 216B.300 to 216B.320.
• .320   KRS 216B.300 to 216B.320 not applicable to boarding home regulated by federal government.

Continuing Care Retirement Communities

• .330   Administrative regulations.
• .332   Requirements for certificate of compliance -- Assessment of residents in nursing home beds -- Limitations upon admission to nursing home beds -- Move-out notice and alternative living arrangements.
• .335   Limitation upon establishment of nursing home beds.
• .339   Monitoring of establishment of nursing home beds -- Collection of data -- Secretary's report to General Assembly.

Emergency Care

• .400   Emergency care -- Examination services for victims of sexual offenses -- Examination expenses paid by Crime Victims' Compensation Board.
• .410   Repealed, 2002.

Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities

• .450   Definitions for KRS 216B.450 and 216B.455.
• .455   Certificate-of-need requirement for psychiatric residential treatment facilities -- Licensure -- Certification -- Restriction on location -- Restriction on number of beds -- Services for specialized populations.
• .459   Medicaid reimbursement.

Penalties

• .990   Penalties.