HB810
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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved, with exceptions allowed for weather emergencies and other similar events;…
Introduced: February 19, 2025
Last action: February 27, 2025
Plain-language summary
This bill would set minimum staff-to-resident ratios that nursing homes and similar long-term care facilities must meet in order to operate in Kentucky. Facilities that fall short of these ratios would be barred from accepting new residents starting the second day of noncompliance, and could face fines of up to $1,000 per day. A new state committee would review the staffing requirements each year. Who it may affect: residents of long-term care facilities and their families, long-term care facility operators and staff, and healthcare workers in those settings.
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