2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 209 - PROTECTION OF ADULTS
209.550 Definitions for KRS 209.550 to 209.554.

Download as PDF 209.550 Definitions for KRS 209.550 to 209.554. As used in KRS 209.550 to 209.554, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department; (2) "Department" means the Department for Public Health; (3) "Documentation" means written evidence from an individual's health care provider that indicates the date and place the individual received the influenza vaccine or the pneumococcal vaccine; (4) "Employee" means an individual who is employed, directly or by contract, with another entity, on a part-time or full-time basis; (5) "Medically contraindicated" describes a situation in which the influenza or pneumococcal vaccine should not be administered to an individual because of a condition that the individual has that will be detrimental to the individual's health if the individual receives the vaccine; and (6) "Long-term care facility" has the same meaning as in KRS 216.510, except that for purposes of KRS 209.550 to 209.554, "long-term care facility" does not include family-care homes or personal-care homes. Effective:July 15, 2002 History: Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 151, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002.