SAFE EYES KENTUCKY - TAKE ACTION
- Actively engaging with the Kentucky General Assembly to advance legislation that protects patients and reinforces physician-led care for surgical and invasive eye procedures, recognizing that these services involve significant medical risk and demand the highest level of training and accountability.
- Defending rigorous medical education, residency training, and board certification standards for those performing medical and surgical eye care, and opposing efforts to substitute abbreviated training pathways that compromise patient safety.
- Advocating for appropriate oversight by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure for any provider performing medical or surgical eye procedures, ensuring that patient protections, disciplinary authority, and accountability mechanisms are consistent with the risks involved.
- Opposing legislative and regulatory proposals that weaken patient safety protections, lower standards of care, or blur the line between medical care and non-medical practice, particularly when such proposals place patients at increased risk of harm.
- Pressing for greater transparency in healthcare so that patients clearly understand:
- Who is providing their care
- What level of education and training that provider has
- Whether procedures being offered carry medical risk
- Who is ultimately accountable if something goes wrong
- Holding policymakers accountable for ensuring that public safety—not professional politics or convenience—remains the priority when healthcare laws are written and revised.
- Elevating the voices of patients and physicians to ensure that legislative decisions reflect real-world clinical experience, not lobbying pressure that ignores patient risk.