216.525 Cabinet's duties.
For the purpose of supplementing, monitoring and enforcing the rights of residents in
long-term care facilities, the cabinet shall take the following actions:
(1) The cabinet shall design and distribute posters to all long-term care facilities which
clearly detail how the resident and his responsible family member or his guardian or
a visitor may make a written or oral complaint, anonymously if they so choose, to
the cabinet in regard to the quality of care given by a particular facility. These
posters shall be conspicuously displayed throughout each long-term care facility.
(2) The cabinet shall take appropriate and necessary actions to insure that all of the
rights of residents in long-term care facilities as defined by KRS 216.515 to 216.525
are upheld.
Effective: July 1, 1982
History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 76, effective July 1, 1982. -- Created
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 4, effective June 17, 1978.
Note: 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 80 would have amended this section effective July 1,
1982. However, 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396 was repealed by 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141,
sec. 146, also effective July 1, 1982.
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