2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 216 - Health facilities and services
216.703 Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish guidelines for developing workplace safety assessment -- Cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance -- Standards for compliance.

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KY Rev Stat § 216.703 (2025)
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216.703 Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish guidelines for developing workplace safety assessment -- Cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance -- Standards for compliance. (1) (2) (3) (4) By January 1, 2024, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall develop and disperse the following information to health facilities: (a) Guidelines for developing a workplace safety assessment; (b) Examples of a workplace safety plan; and (c) Examples of workplace safety standards specific to preventing workplace violence against health care workers. Beginning January 1, 2025, the cabinet shall annually audit health facilities for compliance with the provisions of KRS 216.701 to 216.709. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the cabinet shall accept that a health facility is in compliance with KRS 216.701 to 216.709 if the health facility: (a) Is accredited by the Joint Commission or another nationally recognized accrediting organization with comparable standards and survey processes, that is approved by the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (b) Is recognized by the United States Office of the Inspector General as a health facility certified to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (c) Is licensed as an assisted living community pursuant to KRS Chapter 194A; or (d) Is any provider that accepts payment for services from an individual receiving state supplementation pursuant to KRS 205.245. The cabinet shall promulgate the necessary administrative regulations to effectuate the provisions of KRS 216.701 to 216.709. Effective: June 29, 2023 History: Created 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 100, sec. 2, effective June 29, 2023.
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