As used in KRS § 211.185 to KRS § 211.187:
(1) “Agency” means a local health department established in any county in the Commonwealth pursuant to KRS Chapter 212, including a health department in a county containing a city of the first class, a health department in a county with a consolidated local government, an urban-county health department, an independent district health department, or a district health department;
(2) “Cabinet” means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(3) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of the Department for Public Health within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(4) “Core public health programs” means all foundational public health programs as defined in this section and services that may include but are not limited to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provided by the federal Food and Nutrition Service, the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) program established in KRS § 211.690, and substance use disorder harm reduction services;
(5) “Department” means the Department for Public Health within the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services;
(6) “Foundational public health programs” means those services required by the Kentucky Revised Statutes, including but not limited to activities and service programs that prevent and mitigate disease, protect people from injury, promote healthy lifestyles across all environments, promote population health services, enforce Kentucky administrative regulations, ensure emergency preparedness and response, monitor and mitigate communicable disease, and provide the administrative and organizational infrastructure to deliver services;
(7) “Foundational public health service provider” means an individual who is employed by an agency that provides a foundational public health program service;
(8) “Harm reduction services” means a comprehensive set of public health strategies intended to reduce the negative impact of substance use disorders;
(9) “Local public health priorities” means services not included in core public health programs as defined in this section that are identified through a needs assessment as priorities of an agency through a process established in administrative regulations; and
(10) “Population health services” means the development and support of policies and practices to address, change, and improve health outcomes through community education and partnership development.
Effective: March 17, 2020
History: Created 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 21, sec. 1, effective March 17, 2020.