216.860 Definitions for KRS 216.865.
As used in KRS 216.865:
(1) "Division" means the Division of Community Health Services within the Cabinet
for Health and Family Services;
(2) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary for health and family services; and
(4) "Nursing pools" means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association
engaged for hire in the business of providing or procuring temporary employment in
health-care facilities for medical personnel including, but not limited to, nurses,
nursing assistants, nurses' aides, and orderlies. For purposes of KRS 216.865,
nursing registries shall be considered to be nursing pools. Excluded from this
definition are any health-facility-based or in-house pools established to provide
services within the confines of such facility or business, any person who only
engages in providing his or her own services on a temporary basis to health-care
facilities, and home-health agencies licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 216B which
provide or procure temporary employment in health-care facilities for medical
personnel.
Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 493, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
2001 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 6, effective June 21, 2001. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 426, sec. 439, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 342, sec. 2,
effective January 1, 1989.
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