SB145 - AN ACT relating to healthcare.

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.Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; and amends KRS 209.032 to direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a process of notification by which the cabinet shall notify a vulnerable adult services provider if a prospective or current employee has appealed a substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation.