2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 216 - HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES 216.600 Pilot project to provide preventive oral care services to nursing home residents.
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216.600 Pilot project to provide preventive oral care services to nursing home
residents.
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As used in this section:
(a) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(b) "Department" means the Department for Public Health;
(c) "Preventive oral health care nursing aide" means an aide trained and
employed as a part of the pilot program established in this section, who
works full time on the daily oral health of nursing home residents; and
(d) "Preventive oral care services" means removal of plaque using a
toothbrush, floss, or other plaque removal aid; cleaning of dentures; and
other oral health services that do not exceed the duties that can be
performed by a nonlicensed dental care provider according to KRS
Chapter 313.
Within sixty (60) days of July 12, 2012, the department, in collaboration with
the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry and the University of Louisville
School of Dentistry, shall design and implement a pilot project to improve
access to daily dental hygiene for residents in nursing homes through the
training and employment of preventive oral health care nursing aides in
preventive oral care services. The pilot project shall be subject to approval by
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The pilot project shall be funded by the federal civil monetary penalties
assessed in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations under
Title 18 or 19 of the federal Social Security Act and shall include:
(a) The development of a curriculum to instruct a preventive oral health care
nursing aide in preventive oral care services for nursing home residents;
(b) A training program to instruct preventive oral health care nursing aides
hired as part of this pilot program in preventive oral care services for
nursing home residents; and
(c) Full salary and benefits or other type of financial support for preventive
oral health care nursing aides.
The pilot program shall include rules that allow for nursing homes that do not
require a full-time preventive oral health care nursing aide to participate by
sharing one (1) preventive oral health care nursing aide between two (2) or
more facilities.
The cabinet may promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with
KRS Chapter 13A to carry out this section.
The department, in collaboration with the University of Kentucky College of
Dentistry and the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, shall conduct a
periodic evaluation of the implementation and results of the pilot project. The
findings shall include an analysis of the savings to the Medicaid program from
improved oral health and decreased incidences of diseases such as
pneumonia. The findings of the evaluation shall be reported to the Interim Joint
Committee on Health and Welfare within sixty (60) days following a request by
either chair. The entities conducting the evaluation are encouraged to include a
biostatistician in each periodic evaluation of the implementation and results of
the pilot project.
Effective:July 12, 2012
History: Created 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 147, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2012.
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