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...(A) The department of health shall establish and maintain a statewide hearing screening, tracking, and early intervention program to identify newborn and infant hearing impairment. The department shall also establish appropriate protocols for the treatment and follow-up care of newborns and infants with hearing impairment. (B) In the case of a child born in a hospital or freestanding birthing center, both of the ...

...(A)(1) Each hospital and each freestanding birthing center shall do all of the following: (a) Conduct a hearing screening on each newborn or infant born in the hospital or center unless the newborn or infant is transferred to another hospital; (b) Promptly notify the newborn's or infant's attending physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner of the screening resu...

...The department of health shall prepare and distribute to all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers required to provide hearing screenings under the program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code and each board of health, information describing factors or conditions of hearing loss and the effect of such a loss on an infant or child's language development, and information on the importance of he...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules governing the statewide hearing screening, tracking, and early intervention program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Specify how hospitals and freestanding birthing centers are to comply with the requirements of section 3701.505 of the Revised Code, including methods to be used for hearing screenin...

...(A) The department of health shall develop a mechanism to analyze and interpret the hearing screening information to be reported under division (B) of this section. The department shall notify all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers subject to the reporting requirements of the date the department anticipates that the mechanism will be complete. After the mechanism is complete, the department shall notify each...

...ening results to providers of follow-up services. (2) In adopting rules under division (D)(1)(b) of this section, the director shall specify screening equipment and methods that include the use of pulse oximetry or other screening equipment and methods that detect critical congenital heart defects at least as accurately as pulse oximetry. The screening equipment and methods specified shall be consistent with recom...

... inflammation of the conjunctiva or cornea, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eyes, occurring at any time after two weeks after birth, if caused by the gonococcus, shall be known as "gonorrheal ophthalmia."

...None of the funds appropriated to administer the programs authorized by sections 3701.501 and 3701.502 of the Revised Code shall be used to counsel or refer for abortion.

...ed Code, to exist, within six hours thereafter, shall report such facts, as the department of health shall direct, to the health commissioner of the city or general health district within which such person may reside.

... and refer immediately to the bureau of services for the visually impaired, any inflammation of the eyes, for such treatment as the bureau deems necessary.

...olation was committed, and assist those officials in every way possible.

...Every physician, certified nurse-midwife, or other person in attendance at childbirth shall, immediately after the birth, use in the eyes of the newborn child some prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes of such child, and shall make a record on the birth certificate of the prophylactic used.

...health district, health authorities and officials, officers of state institutions, police officers, sheriffs, constables, and other officers and employees of the state or any county, city, or township, shall enforce quarantine and isolation orders, and the rules the department of health adopts.

... and proceedings by the department of health for the violation of sections 3701.01 to 3701.56, 3705.01 to 3705.29, 3707.06, 3709.01 to 3709.04, 3709.07 to 3709.11, 3709.13, 3709.17, 3709.18, and 3709.21 to 3709.36 of the Revised Code, or for the violation of any of the orders or rules of the department, shall be instituted by the director of health. Except as provided in division (C) of section 3701.571 of the...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a graduated system of fines based on the scope and severity of violations and the history of compliance, not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars per incident, and in an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may impose a fine against any person who violates division (C) of section 3701.23, division...

...The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all violations of sections 3701.51 to 3701.55 and 3705.01 to 3705.29 of the Revised Code.

...drug addiction services" have the same meanings as in section 5119.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Any of the following health care professionals who attends a pregnant woman for conditions relating to pregnancy before the end of the twentieth week of pregnancy and who has reason to believe that the woman is using or has used a...

... to every female in-patient twenty-one years of age or over unless contrary orders are given by the attending physician or unless the examination has been performed within the preceding year. Any female in-patient may refuse the examination. If the examination is offered, the hospital agency shall maintain records to show the examination results or that the examination was refused.

...cer screening, diagnostic, and outreach services to uninsured and under-insured women who meet the eligibility requirements specified in that section. The breast and cervical cancer project, through its regional agencies, shall use the contributed funds to pay for services provided directly by personnel of health facilities operated by boards of health, free clinics as defined in section 3701.071 of the Revised Code,...

...tion, "eligible nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that meets all of the following requirements: (1) The nonprofit corporation is exempt from federal income taxation under subsection 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (2) For at least ten years before September 29, 2015, the primary purpose of the nonprofit corporation, or the nonprofit corporation's predecessor in interest, has been granti...

...s the provision of prenatal health care services to pregnant women on a group basis. The aim of the program is to increase the number of pregnant women who begin prenatal care early in their pregnancies and to reduce the number of infants born preterm. (C)(1) An entity seeking to participate in the grant program shall apply to the department of health in a manner prescribed by the department. Participating entities...

...e Down syndrome educational and support services and programs. (2) With respect to the medical information included in the information sheet, the department shall include only information that is current and based on medical evidence. (3) The department shall periodically review and update the information sheet and shall make it available on the department's internet web site. (B) If a patient under the care of...

... plans for implementing state and local service and program changes and changes to the groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve families and children that might prevent child deaths. (C) The guidelines shall provide that the director may not conduct a review while an investigation of the child's death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending, unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to ...

...hat provided services to a child whose death is being reviewed by the director of health pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code, on the request of the director, shall submit to the director a summary sheet of information. (a) With respect to a request made to a health care entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from the child's me...

...cuments, or reports to the director of health pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code is immune from civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, document, or reports to the director. (B) Each person participating in a review conducted pursuant to guidelines established under...