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KRS 216.525

Cabinet's duties

Known as the Kentucky Charitable Health Care Services Act

The act spans §§ 216–216 (237 sections).

Effective: July 1, 1982 History: Amended 1982 Ky

For the purpose of supplementing, monitoring and enforcing the rights of residents in long-term care facilities, the cabinet shall take the following actions:

(1) The cabinet shall design and distribute posters to all long-term care facilities which clearly detail how the resident and his responsible family member or his guardian or a visitor may make a written or oral complaint, anonymously if they so choose, to the cabinet in regard to the quality of care given by a particular facility. These posters shall be conspicuously displayed throughout each long-term care facility.

(2) The cabinet shall take appropriate and necessary actions to insure that all of the rights of residents in long-term care facilities as defined by KRS 216.515 to 216.525 are upheld.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.