KRS 216B.010: Legislative findings and purposes.

The General Assembly finds that the licensure of health facilities and health services is a

means to insure that the citizens of this Commonwealth will have safe, adequate, and

efficient medical care; that the proliferation of unnecessary health -care facilities, health

services, and major medical equipment results in costly duplication and underuse of such

facilities, services, and equipment; and that such proliferation increases the cost of quality

health care within the Commonwealth. Therefore, it is the purpose of this chapter to fully

authorize and empower the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to perform any

certificate-of-need function and other statutory functions necessary to improve the quality

and increase access to health -care facilities, services, and providers, and to create a cost -

efficient health-care delivery system for the citizens of the Commonwealth.