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...ysician, podiatrist, or dentist. (2) "Health care facility" means any of the following: (a) An ambulatory surgical facility; (b) A freestanding dialysis center; (c) A freestanding inpatient rehabilitation facility; (d) A freestanding birthing center; (e) A freestanding radiation therapy center; (f) A freestanding or mobile diagnostic imaging center. (B) By rule adopted in accordance with sections 3702...

... the Revised Code. (D) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. The rules shall establish all of the following: (1) Minimum patient safety monitoring and evaluation requirements; (2) Quality assessment and improvement standards; (3) Procedures for determining whether freestanding birthing centers are in compliance with the...

...latory surgical center, the director of health shall conduct an inspection of the facility each time the facility submits an application for license renewal. The director shall not renew the license unless all of the following conditions are met: (A) The inspector conducting the inspection completes each item on the following, as applicable: (1) Until the director adopts rules under division (F) of section 37...

...nt shall be filed with the director of health. (B) An ambulatory surgical facility shall update a written transfer agreement every two years and file a copy of the updated agreement with the director. (C) The requirement for a written transfer agreement between an ambulatory surgical facility and a hospital does not apply if either of the following is the case: (1) The facility is a provider-based entity, as...

...(A)(1) The director of health may grant a variance from the written transfer agreement requirement of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code if the ambulatory surgical facility submits to the director a complete variance application, prescribed by the director, and the director determines after reviewing the application that the facility is capable of achieving the purpose of a written transfer agreement in the absence...

... (C) If, at any time, the director of health determines that a consulting physician for an ambulatory surgical facility that has been granted a variance from the written transfer agreement requirement of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code has violated the prohibition in division (B) of this section, the director shall rescind the variance.

...A variance the director of health grants under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code is effective for the period of time specified by the director, except that it shall not be effective beyond the date the ambulatory surgical facility's license expires. If a variance is to expire on the date the facility's license expires, the facility may submit to the director an application for a new variance with its next li...

...l facility shall notify the director of health when any of the following occurs: (A) The facility modifies any provision of its most recent written transfer agreement filed with the director under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. Notification under these circumstances shall occur not later than the business day after the modification is finalized. As used in this division, "business day" means a day of the week...

...If any provision in sections 3702.302 to 3702.307 of the Revised Code is enjoined, the injunction does not affect any remaining provision of those sections, any provision of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, or any provision of the rules adopted under that section.

...utomatically suspended. The director of health shall reinstate the license if one of the following occurs: (1) The facility files with the director a copy of a written transfer agreement that meets the requirements of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. (2) The director grants the facility a variance pursuant to the requirements and procedures under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code; (3) The license is requir...

...A local hospital shall not be further than thirty miles from an ambulatory surgical facility with which the local hospital has a written transfer agreement under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code.

...The director of health may impose conditions on any variance the director has granted under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code. The director may, at any time, rescind the variance for any reason, including a determination by the director that the facility is failing to meet one or more of the conditions or no longer adequately protects public health and safety. The director's decision to rescind a variance is final...

...acuation system. (C) The director of health may adopt any rules the director considers necessary to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

... in the state treasury. The director of health shall use the fund to administer and enforce this section and sections 3702.30, 3702.301, 3702.32, and 3702.33 of the Revised Code and rules adopted pursuant to those sections. The director shall deposit in the fund any moneys collected pursuant to this section or section 3702.32 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. (...

...(A) If the director of health determines that a health care facility is operating without a license in violation of division (E)(1) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, the director shall do one or more of the following: (1) Provide an opportunity for the health care facility to apply for a license within a specified time, not exceeding thirty days after the date of the facility's receipt of the order; (2) Issue...