Hospitals and Nursing Homes


Adult abuse registry

Adult abuse registry, prepare to establish

Advanced practice registered nurses, prescribing rights and responsibilities

Ambulatory surgical center, clarification of definition

Ambulatory surgical center, clarify definition of

Ambulatory surgical center, procedures regarding and definition of

Arrest for misdemeanor assault in hospital emergency room permitted

Bringing a prisoner or patient from another state for treatment in Kentucky, requirements

Certified registered nurse anesthetist, clarify terminology for

Continuing care retirement communities, expansion

Controlled substances legislation, committee substitute changes

Health-facility-acquired infections, rate reporting and infection procedures for, requirement

Home medical equipment and services definition and fees, change in

Home medical equipment and services provider licensure, exemptions from

Kentucky Health Information Technology and Meaningful Use Awareness Day, designation of

Long term care employment applicants, fingerprint checks

Long-term care facilities, nurse staffing requirements, establishment of

Managed care organizations, Medicaid, establish requirements for

Medical order for scope of treatment, permit to direct medical interventions

Medical records, amount of fee for reproduction

Medical review panel, utilization in long-term-care facility litigation

National and State Background Check Program

Oral health, preventive care in nursing homes, pilot program

Pain clinics and controlled substances, prescribing, dispensing, and monitoring of

Patient records, disclosure of

Pharmacy benefit managers, requirements for

Physician assistants, controlled substances, prescriptive authority for

Power of attorney, limitation for nursing home residents

Public benefits, verification of legal presence

Reporting requirements, long-term-care facilities

requirement to report abuse, rape, or neglect; establishment of criminal penalty

State/Executive Branch Budget

Tamper resistant opioid analgesic drugs, list requirement, prohibition of substitution

Tamper resistant opioid analgesic drugs, require list and prohibit substitution

Tamper-resistant opioid analgesic drugs, list requirement, prohibition of substitution

Visitation of veterans, encourage procedure to allow by veteran service organizations


Last updated: 8/27/2019 8:05 PM (EDT)