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...lth shall make an inventory of existing hospitals and medical facilities including public, nonprofit, and proprietary hospitals and medical facilities, survey the need for construction and modernization of hospitals and medical facilities and, on the basis of such inventory and survey, develop a program for the construction and modernization of such public and other nonprofit hospitals and medical facilities as will,...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Children's hospital" means either of the following: (1) A hospital that provides general pediatric medical and surgical care in which at least seventy-five per cent of annual inpatient discharges for the preceding two calendar years were individuals less than eighteen years of age; (2) A distinct portion of a hospital that provides general pediatric medical and surgical care, has a...

...21 of the Revised Code wish to have the hospitals they represent undertake a cooperative action proposed as a result of the discussions or negotiations, they may submit a request to the director of health on behalf of the hospitals for approval of an agreement to undertake the cooperative action. The request shall include all of the following: (1) A copy of the proposed agreement; (2) An implementation plan that st...

...(A) In accordance with division (B) of this section, each hospital shall create an evidence-based written nursing services staffing plan guiding the assignment of nurses hospital-wide. The staffing plan shall be implemented not later than ninety days after the hospital-wide nursing care committee is convened pursuant to section 3727.51 of the Revised Code, except that if the hosp...

...As used in this section and sections 3727.71 to 3727.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Admission" means a patient's admission to a hospital on an inpatient basis by a health care professional specified in division (B)(1) of section 3727.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "After-care" means assistance provided by a lay caregiver to a patient in the patient's residence after the patient's discharge and includes only the caregi...

...(A) A hospital that intends to discharge a patient shall, as soon as practicable, create a discharge plan in accordance with state and federal law and hospital policy and review that plan with the patient or the patient's guardian. If a lay caregiver designation has been made, the discharging health care professional has determined that the lay caregiver's participation in the review would be appropriate, and the lay...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Consolidated corporation" means any mutual insurance company that merged or consolidated with a hospital service association. (2) "Individual policy" means a policy other than a policy issued pursuant to section 3923.11, 3923.12, or 3923.13 of the Revised Code. (3) "Individual policyholder" means a person who is an insured under an individual policy. (4) "Cancel" means any cancel...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3923.53 of the Revised Code: (1) "Screening mammography" means a radiologic examination utilized to detect unsuspected breast cancer at an early stage in asymptomatic women and includes the x-ray examination of the breast using equipment that is dedicated specifically for mammography, including, but not limited to, the x-ray tube, filter, compression device, screens, film, a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency medical condition" means a medical condition that manifests itself by such acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including severe pain, that a prudent layperson with average knowledge of health and medicine could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in any of the following: (a) Placing the health of the individual or, with respect to a...

...Every employee who is disabled because of the contraction of an occupational disease or the dependent of an employee whose death is caused by an occupational disease, is entitled to the compensation provided by sections 4123.55 to 4123.59 and 4123.66 of the Revised Code subject to the modifications relating to occupational diseases contained in this chapter. An order of the administrator issued under this section is ...

...As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A)(1) "Employer" means the state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, Indian tribes, and any individual or type of organization including any partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receive...

...Section 4731.66 of the Revised Code does not apply to any of the following referrals by the holder of a license under this chapter: (A) Referrals for physicians' services that are performed by or under the personal supervision of a physician in the same group practice as the referring physician; (B) Referrals for clinical laboratory services by a license holder specializing in the practice of pathology if those ser...

...(A) No private hospital, private hospital director, or governing board of a private hospital is required to permit an abortion. (B) No public hospital, public hospital director, or governing board of a public hospital is required to permit an abortion. (C) Refusal to permit an abortion is not grounds for civil liability nor a basis for disciplinary or other recriminatory action. (D) No person is required to perfor...

...a patient, including transports between hospitals and transports to and from helicopters. (H) "Emergency medical service organization" means a public or private organization using first responders, EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, or paramedics, or a combination of first responders, EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, and paramedics, to provide emergency medical services. (I) "Physician" means an individual who holds a current, valid license...

...f pediatrics, OHA: the association for hospitals and health systems, the Ohio osteopathic association, and the association of Ohio children's hospitals and shall hold a public hearing at which it must consider the appropriateness of the protocols to minimize overtriage and undertriage of trauma victims. (c) The board shall provide copies of the state triage protocols, and amendments to the protocols, to each e...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The secretary of state shall not appoint or commission a person as a police officer for a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or association of banks, savings and loan associations, or credit unions under division (A) of section 4973.17 of the Revised Code; for a railroad company under division ...

...(A) As used in this section, "adverse action" means an action by a state, provincial, federal, or other licensing or regulatory authority to deny, revoke, suspend, place on probation, or otherwise restrict a license, certificate, or other approval to operate a hospital or practice a health care profession. (B)(1) When submitting an application for initial or renewed licensure of a hospital under section 5119.33 of...

...On an annual basis, the department of mental health and addiction services shall determine both of the following using generally accepted governmental accounting principles: (A) The applicable per diem charge for each hospital operated by the department; (B) The ancillary per diem rate for each hospital operated by the department. In determining a hospital's applicable per diem charge and ancillary per diem...

... authorizing such disclosure; (3) That hospitals, boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, and community mental health services providers may release necessary medical information to insurers and other third-party payers, including government entities responsible for processing and authorizing payment, to obtain payment for goods and services furnished to the patient; (4) Pursuant to a court o...

...(A) Unless the Ohio home care waiver program is terminated pursuant to section 5165.12 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall establish a home first component for the Ohio home care waiver program. An individual is eligible for the Ohio home care waiver program's home first component if the individual has been determined to be eligible for the Ohio home care waiver program and at least one of the...

...(B) In redetermining nursing homes' and hospitals' franchise permit fees under this section, the department shall do both of the following: (1) Provide for the redetermination to be conducted in a manner consistent with the terms of the waiver sought under section 5168.43 of the Revised Code; (2) Recalculate each nursing home's and hospital's franchise permit fee in accordance with division (A) or (B) of section 51...

...(A) In addition to assessing a penalty pursuant to section 5168.51 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may do any of the following if a nursing facility or hospital fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment when due: (1) Withhold an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.51 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the nu...

...(A) Any real estate or interest in real estate coming to a person by purchase, inheritance, or otherwise, after the spouse of the person is adjudged a person with a mental illness subject to court order and admitted to either a hospital for persons with mental illness in this or any other state of the United States or the psychiatric department of any hospital of the United States, may be conveyed by the person while...

...The legislative authority of each municipal corporation, annually, may levy and collect a tax not to exceed one mill on each dollar of the taxable property of the municipal corporation and pay the amount to a private corporation or association which maintains and furnishes a free public hospital for the benefit of the inhabitants of the municipal corporation, or not free except to such inhabitants as, in the opinion ...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, under agreement with a joint township hospital district board, or with the board of county commissioners, accept participation by such district or county in the erection or enlargement of a municipal hospital, or in the maintenance and operation of such a hospital, or both. Such agreement may provide for the amounts to be contributed by such district or county...