Rule 3701-3-07 | Reporting Requirements-Illnesses and Health Conditions.
(A) As used in this rule:
(1) "Dedicated emergency department" means any department or facility of a hospital, regardless of whether it is located on or off the main hospital campus, which meets at least one of the following requirements:
(a) It is held out to the public (by name, posted signs, advertising, or other means) as a place that provides care for emergency medical conditions on an urgent basis without requiring a previously scheduled appointment; or
(b) During the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which a determination under this section is being made, based on a representative sample of patient visits that occurred during that calendar year, it provides at least one-third of all its outpatient visits for the treatment of emergency medical conditions on an urgent basis without requiring a previously scheduled appointment.
(2) "Health condition" means any physiological, mental, or psychological condition or impairment, as specified in this rule.
(B) A dedicated emergency department is to report, by the end of the next business day, symptom data related to illnesses and health conditions (e.g., chief complaint). A dedicated emergency department that is not using an electronic reporting system to report under this paragraph is also to immediately report the following information by telephone or electronically:
(1) Whenever the dedicated emergency department identifies a cluster of patients with a higher than expected rate of symptoms or chief complaints related to fever or respiratory or gastrointestinal illnesses or health conditions;
(2) Significant changes in expected patterns of symptoms or chief complaints related to fever or respiratory or gastrointestinal illnesses or health conditions that may be caused by bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or established or novel infectious agents or biological toxins posing a risk of human fatality or disability; or
(3) An unexpected increase in the number of patients with the same or similar symptoms or chief complaint related to fever or respiratory or gastrointestinal illnesses or health conditions.
(C) Health care providers, as defined in section 3701.23 of the Revised Code, are to report the following health conditions according to paragraph (B) of rule 3701-3-05 of the Administrative Code and boards of health are to report according to paragraph (B) of rule 3701-3-06 of the Administrative Code:
(1) Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM);
(2) Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS);
(3) Hospitalizations of:
(a) Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19);
(b) Influenza;
(c) Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV);
(4) Influenza-associated pediatric mortality;
(5) Toxic shock syndrome (TSS).
(D) A health care provider, including a dedicated emergency department, is to submit data or reports required by this rule using forms and formats approved by the director. A health care provider using an electronic reporting system or systems, including the use of a third-party organization on behalf of the health care provider or dedicated emergency department, to the extent approved by the director, is deemed to comply with the reporting requirements of this rule until such use is no longer considered approved by the director.
Last updated October 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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