Kentucky Statutes 333.090 – Qualifications of laboratory director — Limit on tests
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the director of a medical laboratory shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Kentucky.
(2) The director of a medical laboratory may be the holder of an earned doctoral degree, with a chemical, physical or biological science as his major subject, from an institution accredited by an appropriate agency of the state or by any other equivalent accrediting agency acceptable to the cabinet or from an institution which, in the opinion of the cabinet, maintains standards equivalent to those of an institution accredited as aforesaid, who subsequent to graduation has had at least two (2) years of experience in the medical laboratory specialty for which he was trained.
(3) In the event an individual has been serving as a director of a medical laboratory in Kentucky for a period of not less than a year prior to January 1, 1969, he may continue to direct such medical laboratory notwithstanding the requirement of subsections (1) and (2) of this section, provided, however, that the cabinet may require (in the interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state) as a condition precedent to the issuance of an original or renewal license hereunder, that such individuals demonstrate their ability satisfactorily to perform medical laboratory examinations and to direct a medical laboratory.
(4) Tests performed in a laboratory directed by a nonphysician shall be limited to the specialties or subspecialties of medical laboratory procedures for which the director is personally qualified through education and experience and no medical interpretation of test results, diagnosis, prognosis, or suggested treatment shall be made.
History: Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 16.
(2) The director of a medical laboratory may be the holder of an earned doctoral degree, with a chemical, physical or biological science as his major subject, from an institution accredited by an appropriate agency of the state or by any other equivalent accrediting agency acceptable to the cabinet or from an institution which, in the opinion of the cabinet, maintains standards equivalent to those of an institution accredited as aforesaid, who subsequent to graduation has had at least two (2) years of experience in the medical laboratory specialty for which he was trained.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 333.090
- Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. See Kentucky Statutes 333.020
- Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, place, or any other facility in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, or other methods of examination of tissues including blood, secretions, and excretions of the human body are performed to obtain information in diagnosing, preventing, or treating disease, or in which the results of any examination, determination, or test are used as a basis for health advice. See Kentucky Statutes 333.020
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010 - Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
(3) In the event an individual has been serving as a director of a medical laboratory in Kentucky for a period of not less than a year prior to January 1, 1969, he may continue to direct such medical laboratory notwithstanding the requirement of subsections (1) and (2) of this section, provided, however, that the cabinet may require (in the interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state) as a condition precedent to the issuance of an original or renewal license hereunder, that such individuals demonstrate their ability satisfactorily to perform medical laboratory examinations and to direct a medical laboratory.
(4) Tests performed in a laboratory directed by a nonphysician shall be limited to the specialties or subspecialties of medical laboratory procedures for which the director is personally qualified through education and experience and no medical interpretation of test results, diagnosis, prognosis, or suggested treatment shall be made.
History: Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 16.