Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XVIII. Public Health § 210.300.Designation of hospital districts; guidelines; administrative regulations; annual review

(a) Distance and travel time from each county to a state institution or contracted hospital for the mentally ill;

(b) Need to transport the individual to a hospital or psychiatric facility to secure an evaluation or for admission without unnecessary delay as required under KRS Chapters 202A, 202B, and 202C; and

(c) Population of the hospital districts based upon the most recent federal decennial census.

(a) The ability or inability of the designated state institution or contracted hospital to accept the individual to be transported or evaluated without delay due to capacity limitations, lack of staffing, or other impediment; or

(b) The need for immediate and emergent treatment or evaluation arising from but not limited to the threat or reasonable fear of physical harm to the individual or any employee or agent of the transporting agency or service.

Only those hospitals that have filed a written notice with the cabinet of the hospital's willingness to accept patients under this subsection may accept admissions.

(a) Any changes made to any hospital district and the reason for the change;

(b) The name and location of state institutions accepting patients for admission under KRS Chapters 202A, 202B, and 202C, including the counties the state institution serves; and

(c) The name and locations of any contracted hospital accepting patients for admission under KRS Chapters 202A, 202B, and 202C, including the counties the contracted hospital serves.