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...ate, or local government agency, or the official representative of such an agency, for purposes of the medicaid program, the medicare program, or any other public assistance program. (E) Any disclosure pursuant to this section shall be in writing and accompanied by a written statement that includes the following or substantially similar language: "This information has been disclosed to you from confidential records...

...) As used in this section, "violation" means an occasion of noncompliance involving a single injured individual. (B) A person or an agency of state or local government that knowingly violates division (A) of section 3701.242, division (A) of section 3701.243, or division (E) of section 3701.248 of the Revised Code may be found liable in a civil action; the action may be brought by any individual injured by the viola...

...l the physician, nurse, or dentist has reason to believe may have AIDS or an AIDS-related condition to an appropriate health care provider or facility, if the referral is based on reasonable professional judgment and not solely on grounds of the refusal of the individual to consent to an HIV test or to disclose the result of an HIV test.

...Any human body part donated for transplantation, including an organ, tissue, eye, bone, artery, or other part, and any body fluid donated for transfusion or injection into another person, including blood, plasma, a blood product, semen, or other fluid, shall be given an HIV test before being transplanted, transfused, or injected to determine that the part or fluid is not infected with the HIV virus unless, in an emer...

...he other person in the performance of official duties. (2) The complaint in the action shall be accompanied by an affidavit in which the plaintiff attests to all of the following: (a) While rendering health or emergency care to the defendant, or while dealing with the defendant in the performance of the plaintiff's duties, the plaintiff sustained a significant exposure to body fluids of the defendant that are k...

...r medical care by an emergency medical services worker; (b) A deceased person whose body is handled by a funeral services worker. (3) "Significant exposure" means: (a) A percutaneous or mucous membrane exposure of an individual to the blood, semen, vaginal secretions, or spinal, synovial, pleural, peritoneal, pericardial, or amniotic fluid of another person; (b) Exposure to a contagious or infectious disease...

...employer" and "employee" have the same meanings as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The employer of a person with HIV infection is immune from liability to any person in a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property on a claim arising out of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from the infected employee to another employee or to any other person, unless the trans...

...duals providing diagnostic or treatment services to patients with Parkinson's disease may maintain separate facility-based Parkinson's disease registries.

...ll data collected by the Parkinson's disease registry is confidential pursuant to section 3701.17 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health may enter into agreements to furnish data collected in the Parkinson's disease registry to other states' Parkinson's disease registries, federal Parkinson's disease control agencies, local health officers, and local health researchers. Before confidential data is disclos...

...(A) There is hereby created the Parkinson's disease registry advisory committee. The committee shall consist of the director of health or the director's designee and the following members appointed by the director: (1) A neurologist; (2) A movement disorder specialist; (3) A primary care provider; (4) A physician informaticist; (5) A public health professional; (6) A population health researcher fam...

...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; (C) Demographic informatio...

...The director of health shall describe the registry and provide any information regarding the registry the director deems relevant on the department of health's internet web site.

...The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to specify the data to be collected and the format in which it is to be submitted to the registry.

...r all of this section and section 3701.262 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under those sections.

...erson providing diagnostic or treatment services to patients with cancer shall report each case of cancer to the department. Any person required to report pursuant to this section may elect to report to the department through an existing cancer registry if the registry meets the reporting standards established by the director and reports to the department. (2) No person shall fail to make the cancer reports requir...

...When a contagious or infectious disease becomes or threatens to become epidemic in a municipal corporation or township, and the local authorities neglect or refuse to enforce efficient measures for its prevention, the director of health may appoint a medical or sanitary officer and such assistants as he may require, and authorize him to enforce such orders or regulations as the director deems necessary.

...The department of health shall make provision for annual conferences of district health commissioners for the consideration of the cause and prevention of dangerous communicable diseases and other measures to protect and improve the public health. Each board of health or other body or person appointed or acting in place of a board of health shall appoint its health commissioner or health officer a delegate to such co...

...The department of health may devise a suitable program for establishing a blood bank for civilian use, embracing if necessary, methods for the registration of blood donors, for the collection of blood from donors, for the processing or procurement of blood plasma or other substitutes for whole blood, and for the distribution of pool blood, blood plasma, or other blood substitutes to meet civilian needs, to communitie...

...ze the facilities and services of other official agencies and of voluntary organizations which may be made available to the department, and co-operate, if requested, with agencies and organizations engaged in a similar program on a local or state basis.

...ting the business of the department of health shall be provided and maintained by the state.

...es incurred in the performance of their official duties. (I) Sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code do not apply to the Ohio public health advisory board.

...de; (2) Prescribing proposed fees for services provided by the office of vital statistics and the bureau of environmental health; (3) Any proposed policy changes that pertain to entities serving or seeking to serve as vendors under the WIC program, as defined in section 3701.132 of the Revised Code, that are not addressed pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section. (4) Issues to improve public health and inc...

...pter 119. and consistent with Chapter 3726. and section 2317.56 of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules relating to abortions and the following subjects: (1) Post-abortion procedures to protect the health of the pregnant woman; (2) Pathological reports; (3) Humane disposition of the product of human conception; (4) Counseling. (B) The director of health shall implement the rules and shall apply to the court ...

...agement programs; (F) Health promotion services designed to encourage individual and community wellness; (G) Annual completion of two hours of continuing education by each member of a board of health. The minimum standards shall provide that continuing education credits shall pertain to ethics, public health principles, and a member's responsibilities. Credits may be earned in these topics at pertinent present...

...n, if the system has fewer than fifteen service connections and does not regularly serve an average of at least twenty-five individuals daily at least sixty days out of the year. "Private water system" includes any well, spring, cistern, pond, hauled water, or recycled water and any equipment for the collection, transportation, filtration, disinfection, treatment, or storage of such water extending from and including...