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216B.010 Legislative findings and purposes.

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Page 1 of 1 216B.010 Legislative findings and purposes. The General Assembly finds that the licensure of health facilities and health services is a <br>means to insure that the citizens of this Commonwealth will have safe, adequate, and <br>efficient medical care; that the proliferation of unnecessary health-care facilities, health <br>services, and major medical equipment results in costly duplication and underuse of such <br>facilities, services, and equipment; and that such proliferation increases the cost of quality <br>health care within the Commonwealth. Therefore, it is the purpose of this chapter to fully <br>authorize and empower the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to perform any <br>certificate-of-need function and other statutory functions necessary to improve the quality <br>and increase access to health-care facilities, services, and providers, and to create a cost-<br>efficient health-care delivery system for the citizens of the Commonwealth. Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 504, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 448, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 371, sec. 36, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 512, Part 7, <br>sec. 22, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 210, sec. 4, effective <br>July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 347, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. --<br>Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 135, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980.