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...A local healthier buckeye council shall report the following information to the joint medicaid oversight committee created in section 103.41 of the Revised Code: (A) Notification that the local council has been established and information regarding the council's organization, plan, and activities; (B) Information regarding enrollment or outcome data collected under division (E) of section 355.03 of the Revised Co...

...(A) No precinct election official shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Unlawfully open or permit to be opened the sealed package containing registration lists, ballots, blanks, pollbooks, and other papers and material to be used in an election; (2) Unlawfully misplace, carry away, negligently lose or permit to be taken from the precinct election official, fail to deliver, or destroy any such packages,...

...(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Impersonate another, or make a false representation in order to obtain an absent voter's ballot; (2) Aid or abet a person to vote an absent voter's ballot illegally; (3) If the person is an election official, open, destroy, steal, mark, or mutilate any absent voter's ballot; (4) Aid or abet another person to open, destroy, steal, mark, or mutilate any...

...As used in sections 3701.01, 3701.04, 3701.08, 3701.09, and 3701.37 to 3701.45 of the Revised Code: (A) "The federal act" means Title VI of the "Public Health Service Act," 60 Stat. 1041 (1946), 42 U.S.C. 291, as amended. (B) "The surgeon general" means the surgeon general of the public health service of the United States or such other officer or employee of the United States responsible for administration of the f...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, such rules as are necessary to carry out sections 3701.021 to 3701.0210 of the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, rules to establish the following: (1) Subject to division (D) of this section, medical and financial eligibility requirements for the program for children and youth with special health care needs; ...

...The children and youth with special health care needs medical advisory council shall appoint a hemophilia advisory subcommittee to advise the director of health and council on all matters pertaining to the care and treatment of persons with hemophilia. The duties of the subcommittee include, but are not limited to, the monitoring of care and treatment of children and adults who suffer from hemophilia or from other si...

...(A) There is created the center for community health worker excellence, a public-private partnership to support and foster the practice of community health workers and improve access to community health worker services across this state. (B) The center shall be a public-private partnership governed by a board of directors comprised of the following members: (1) The director of the department of health or the di...

...(A) The director of health shall: (1) Require reports and make inspections and investigations that the director considers necessary; (2) Provide administration, appoint personnel, make reports, and take other action as necessary to comply with the requirements of the "Construction and Modernization of Hospitals and Other Medical Facilities Act," Title VI of the "Public Health Service Act," 60 Stat. 1041 (1946...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (2) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Drug," "dangerous drug," and "licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs" have the same m...

...(A) As used in this section, "rare disease" has the same meaning as in section 103.60 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than three years after the effective date of this section, the director of health shall publish a report detailing the incidence of rare diseases in this state, with subsequent reports published every two years thereafter. To the extent possible, the reports shall include data regarding individua...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Isolation" means the separation of one or more individuals who have been medically diagnosed with a communicable or contagious disease from other individuals who have not been medically diagnosed with the disease. (2) "Quarantine" means the separation or restriction of movement of one or more individuals who have come into direct contact with someone who has been medically diagno...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the director of health shall convene meetings with staff of the department of health, department of medicaid, department of administrative services, and commission on minority health to do all of the following: (1) Assess the prevalence of all types of diabetes in this state, including disparities in that prevalence among various demographic populations and local jurisdi...

...(A) Subject to section 101.36 of the Revised Code, the director of health shall investigate or make inquiry as to the cause of disease or illness, including contagious, infectious, epidemic, pandemic, or endemic conditions, and take prompt action to control and suppress it. The reports of births and deaths, the sanitary conditions and effects of localities and employments, the personal and business habits of the peop...

...(A) The director of health shall develop and administer the following: (1) A surveillance system to determine the number of cases of AIDS and the HIV infection rate in various population groups; (2) Counseling and testing programs for groups determined by the director to be at risk of HIV infection, including procedures for both confidential and anonymous tests, counseling training programs for health care pr...

...Within twenty-four months of the establishment of the Parkinson's disease registry, and annually thereafter, the director of health shall submit a report to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code summarizing the following: (A) The incidence of Parkinson's disease in Ohio by county; (B) The number of new cases reported to the Parkinson's disease registry in the previous year; ...

...(A) As used in this section and in sections 3701.791 and 3701.792 of the Revised Code : (1) "Abortion" has the same meaning as in section 2919.11 of the Revised Code. (2) "Abortion report" means a form completed pursuant to division (C) of this section. (3) "Ambulatory surgical facility" has the same meaning as in section 3702.30 of the Revised Code. (4) "Department" means the department of health. (5) "Hos...

...(A) There is hereby re-created a foundation as described in section 170 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, which shall be known as the Ohio medical quality foundation. The foundation shall be administered by thirteen trustees, one of whom shall be the director of health and the remaining twelve of whom shall be appointed by the governor within ninety days of July 21, 1994...

...(A) If the director of health establishes the patient centered medical home education pilot project, the director shall prepare reports of its findings and recommendations from the pilot project. Each report shall include an evaluation of the learning opportunities generated by the pilot project, the physicians and advanced practice registered nurses trained in the pilot project, the costs of the pilot project,...

...The director of health, through the Ohio violent death reporting system, shall do all of the following regarding violent death information, data, and records maintained in the system: (A) Monitor the incidence and causes of the various types of violent deaths; (B) Make appropriate epidemiologic studies of the violent deaths; (C) Analyze trends and patterns in, and circumstances related to, the violent deaths; ...

...(A) The department of health shall submit a report to the governor and, in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code, the general assembly, evaluating the patient centered medical home program not later than three years after rules adopted pursuant to section 3701.944 of the Revised Code first become effective. The department shall submit a second report not later than five years after those rules firs...

...(A) As used in this section, "mammogram" and "facility" have the same meanings as in section 263b(a) of the "Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992," 106 Stat. 3547 (1992), 42 U.S.C. 263b(a), as amended. (B) As required by 21 C.F.R. 900.12(c)(2), a facility shall send to each patient who has a mammogram at the facility a summary of the written report containing the results of the patient's mammogram. If, based o...

...(A) At the times specified in this section, the director of health shall accept, for review under section 3702.52 of the Revised Code, certificate of need applications for any of the following purposes if the proposed increase in beds is attributable solely to relocation of existing beds from an existing long-term care facility in a county with excess beds to a long-term care facility in a county in which there are f...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Administrator" means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency or the chief executive of any successor federal agency responsible for implementation of the federal Clean Air Act. (B) "Air contaminant" means particulate matter, dust, fumes, gas, mist, radionuclides, smoke, vapor, or odorous substances, or any combination thereof, but does not mean emission...

...(A) No person shall sell, expose for sale, or offer to sell any aerosol spray can which contains as a propellant trichloromonofluoromethane, dichlorodifluoromethane, or any other saturated chlorofluorocarbon compound that does not contain hydrogen, except an aerosol spray can designed for administering any drug for the treatment of asthma or another respiratory disease through a device that measures the dosage, admin...

...(A) A birth certificate for each live birth in this state shall be filed in the registration district in which it occurs within ten calendar days after such birth and shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance with this section. (B) When a birth occurs in or en route to an institution, the person in charge of the institution or a designated representative shall obtain the personal data, p...