KRS 216.310: Purpose of law.

This legislation is designed to permit a county to form a hospital district or two (2) or

more counties to join together in the formation of a hospital district in order to provide a

broader basis for local support of hospitals and related health facilitie s including

supportive services and the training and education of health personnel. The General

Assembly recognizes that hospitals can be more effective if they are of sufficient scope to

marshal the skills and manpower necessary to provide the advantages of modern medicine

and that the development of high -speed highways makes possible accessibility to such

modern hospitals permitting service to a larger geographical area. It is the intent of KRS

216.310 to 216.360 to provide for the integration of the comp lex functions of health and

hospital care for the collective benefit of all the people within an area by providing a

method to extend the geographical territory to larger regions.