Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XVIII. Public Health § 216.935.Definitions for KRS 216.935 to 216.939

(1) “Direct-care staff member” means a home health aide or a personal service aide whose work involves extensive contact with residents or program participants who exhibit symptoms of Alzheimer's disease or other dementias;

(2) “Facilities or programs” means residential facilities or home-and-community-based service programs and include but are not limited to personal service agencies and home health agencies that have residents or program participants who exhibit symptoms of Alzheimer's disease or other dementias;

(3) “Home health aide” means an individual who is hired to perform home health aide services;

(4) “Home health agency” means a public agency or private organization, or a subdivision of such an agency or organization which is licensed as a home health agency by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and is certified to participate as a home health agency under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act;

(5) “Home health aide services” means those services provided by a home health aide and supervised by a registered nurse which are directed towards the personal care of the patient. Such services shall include but not be limited to the following:

(6) “Nurse aide” means an individual, including a nursing student, medication aide, and a person employed through a nursing pool, who provides nursing or nursing related services to a resident in a nursing facility or home health agency, excluding:

(7) “Recipient” means an individual receiving nonmedical home health services or medical home-health services.