3701-7-01 Maternity units: definitions.

As used in rules 3701-7-02 to 3701-7-05 of the Administrative Code:

(A) “Director” means the director of the Ohio department of health or the director’s duly authorized representative.

(B) “Gynecologic patient” means a woman with or suspected of having a disorder related to her reproductive organs.

(C) “Licensee” means the individual, corporation, partnership, board, association or entity licensed by the director under rule 3701-7-02 of the Administrative Code to maintain a maternity unit.

(D) “Licensed capacity” means the maximum number of women and infants that the maternity unit is authorized to accommodate under its license.

(E) “Maternity hospital” means an institution registered under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code as a special hospital that provides inpatient care primarily to newborn infants and women during all or part of the maternity cycle

(F) “Maternity unit” means any area in a lying-in hospital or a maternity hospital where women are received and care is provided during all or part of the maternity cycle, or where newborn infants are received and care is provided.

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 03/13/2008 and 03/01/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 3701.34, 3711.01, 3711.02, 3711.021, 3711.03, 3711.04, 3711.05, 3711.06, 3711.07, 3711.08, 3711.09, 3711.10, 3711.12, 3711.13

Rule Amplifies: 3711.01, 3711.02, 3711.021, 3711.03, 3711.04, 3711.05, 3711.06, 3711.07, 3711.08, 3711.09, 3711.10, 3711.12, 3711.13

Prior Effective Dates: 7/15/1976, 4/30/2003