3701-36-03 Minimum standards.

Each health district must meet the minimum standards to receive any state subsidy funds.

(A) These minimum standards are:

(1) Submission of a state health district subsidy fund application to the department due January first of each year;

(2) Completion and submission of a report on local health department improvement standards and optional measures on January first of the first year of the state’s biennium;

(3) Completion and submission of center for disease control and prevention performance standards (on-line tool) and submission of a copy to the department by January first of the second year of the state’s biennium, or as determined by the director;

(4) Submission of a completed annual financial report to the department by March first of each year;

(5) Be represented by the health commissioner or the health commissioner’s designee at each conference provided by the Ohio department of health pursuant to section 3701.29 of the Revised Code. The health commissioner shall personally attend one of these conferences and the medical director of a health district with a non-physician health commissioner shall attend at least one session of one of the conferences. The director shall review reasons for failure to comply with this paragraph and may grant an excuse when good cause for the absence has been documented;

(6) Provide administrative leadership by:

(a) Employing a health commissioner;

(b) Employing a registered nurse as nursing director;

(c) Employing a registered sanitarian as environmental health director;

(d) Employing as medical director a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine who is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio and who is actively involved in providing medical leadership to the local health department if the health district has a non-physician health commissioner;

(7) Provision of services for health education; and

(8) Expenditure of a minimum of $3.00 per capita in local funds for public health services per year.

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 07/31/2008 and 07/31/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 3701.342

Rule Amplifies: 3701.342

Prior Effective Dates: 1/1/2005