UNOFFICIAL COPY 24 RS BR 2164
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AN ACT relating to healthcare. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
ď˘Section 1. KRS 216.525 is amended to read as follows: 3
For the purpose of supplementing, monitoring and enforcing the rights of residents in 4
long-term care facilities, the cabinet shall take the following actions: 5
(1) The cabinet shall design and distribute posters to all long-term care facilities which 6
clearly detail how the resident and his or her responsible family member or his or 7
her guardian or a visitor may make a written or oral complaint, anonymously if he 8
or she[they] so chooses[choose], to the cabinet in regard to the quality of care given 9
by a particular facility. These posters shall be conspicuously displayed throughout 10
each long-term care facility. 11
(2) The cabinet shall take appropriate and necessary actions to insure that all of the 12
rights of residents in long-term care facilities as defined by KRS 216.515 to 13
216.525 are upheld. 14