| Title | AN ACT relating to patient safety by requiring Kentucky hospitals to annually survey employees regarding patient safety culture and practices with the results to be publicly reported on a Web site maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. |
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| Bill Documents | Original |
| Sponsors | R. Wiederstein |
| Summary of Original Version | Create a new section of KRS 216.2920 to 216.2929 to require all hospitals to annually survey employees on patient safety culture; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to design, collect, analyze, and publish survey data; list requirements for the survey design; list requirements for the survey content; require the survey design to be completed by October 30, 2020, and the survey results to be made available by June 30 each year beginning with June 30, 2021, on the cabinet's Web site and reported to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; permit the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the survey requirements. |
| Index Headings |
Health and Medical Services - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct Nurses - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct Physicians and Practitioners - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct Public Health - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct Research and Methods - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct State Agencies - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, patient safety culture survey Public Safety - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, patient safety culture survey Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Patient safety culture survey, hospitals to conduct |
| 10/29/19 | Prefiled by the sponsor(s). |
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