216.313 Definitions for KRS 216.310 to 216.360. As used in KRS 216.310 to 216.360: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) "Hospital" means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, or care, for more than twenty-four (24) hours, of two (2) or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or a place including nursing and convalescent homes and all institutions for the care of the sick, devoted primarily to providing, for more than twenty-four (24) hours, obstetrical or other medical or nursing care for two (2) or more nonrelated individuals; "District" means hospital district; "Board" means the governing body of a hospital district; "Secretary" means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or his designee; and "Medical service area" means the geographic territory from which patients come or are expected to come to existing or proposed health facilities as defined by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Effective: June 20, 2005 History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 477, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 422, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI, sec. 107(1) and (2). -- Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 176, sec. 2, effective June 13, 1968.
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