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216.525 Cabinet's duties.

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216.525 Cabinet's duties. For the purpose of supplementing, monitoring and enforcing the rights of residents in <br>long-term care facilities, the cabinet shall take the following actions: <br>(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 <br>a visitor may make a written or oral complaint, anonymously if they so choose, to <br>the cabinet in regard to the quality of care given by a particular facility. These <br>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 <br>are upheld. Effective: July 1, 1982 <br>History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 76, effective July 1, 1982. -- Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 4, effective June 17, 1978. Note: 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 80 would have amended this section effective July 1, 1982. However, 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396 was repealed by 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, <br>sec. 146, also effective July 1, 1982.