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2017 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 216 - HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES
.910 Powers and duties of network.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 216.910 (2017)
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216.910 Powers and duties of network. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) Any licensed network shall be permitted to establish one (1) extension site per full-time physician on the staff of the network. Extension sites shall not be required to have a separate license but shall conform to administrative regulations promulgated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and shall be inspected on a regular basis. Each network shall establish protocols for the treatment of the twenty (20) most common patient problems. At a minimum, the protocols shall identify for each problem a working definition, patient symptoms, diagnostic techniques, acceptable values for laboratory findings, conditions under which a physician shall be consulted, and treatment methods. Each network shall have a system of patient and family medical records which employs the problem-oriented medical record format. A network shall employ a primary-care physician who has admitting privileges at a local hospital. The network shall hire ancillary personnel as necessary to provide the basic services of the network. Each network shall establish a process by which it regularly evaluates the health-care needs of its community and the services it provides in response to those needs. Each network shall provide ninety (90) minutes each week of continuing education to its health-care providers on topics relating to patient care needs. Each network shall either provide directly for twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) day per week access to care for its patients or have formal written agreements with local providers to insure twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) day per week access to care for its patients. Effective:June 29, 2017 History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 22, effective June 29, 2017. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 497, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 444, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 482, sec. 3, effective July 13, 1990.
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