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...A hospital-wide nursing care committee convened pursuant to section 3727.51 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following: (A) If one exists, evaluate the hospital's current nursing services staffing plan; (B) Recommend a nursing services staffing plan that is, at a minimum, consistent with current standards established by private accreditation organizations or governmental entities and ...

...(A) If a patient or guardian makes a lay caregiver designation, the hospital shall do both of the following: (1) To the extent the information is available, record in the patient's medical record the lay caregiver's name, address, telephone number, electronic mail address, and relationship to the patient; (2) Request from the patient or guardian consent to disclose the patient's medical information to the lay car...

...It is the intent of the general assembly that sections 3727.70 to 3727.77 of the Revised Code not be construed to do any of the following: (A) Interfere with the authority of a patient's attorney- in-fact under sections 1337.11 to 1337.17 of the Revised Code or a patient's proxy under sections 2135.01 to 2135.14 of the Revised Code; (B) Create a right of action against a hospital or an employee, agent, or contrac...

...As used in sections 3902.11 to 3902.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Beneficiary" and "third-party payer" have the same meanings as in section 3901.38 of the Revised Code. (B) "Plan of health coverage" means any of the following if the policy, contract, or agreement contains a coordination of benefits provision: (1) An individual or group sickness and accident insurance policy, which policy provides for hospital, d...

...Every person, the state and any of its instrumentalities, any county, township, school district, or other political subdivisions and any of its instrumentalities, and any municipal corporation and any of its instrumentalities, which provides payment for health care benefits for any of its employees resident in this state, which benefits are not provided by contract with an insurer qualified to provide sickness ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Group policy" includes any group sickness and accident policy or contract delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state on or after June 28, 1984, and any private or public employer self-insurance plan or other plan that provides, or provides payment for, health care benefits for employees resident in this state other than through an insurer or health insuring corp...

...As used in sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted pursuant to those sections: (A) "Applicant" means any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code, or any certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner. (B) "Medical liability underwriting association" means a nonprofit unincorpo...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Affiliate" means any person or entity that has ownership or control of a contracting entity, is owned or controlled by a contracting entity, or is under common ownership or control with a contracting entity. (B) "Basic health care services" has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 1751.01 of the Revised Code, except that it does not include any services listed in that divis...

...The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules with respect to the collection, maintenance, and disbursements of the state insurance fund including all of the following: (A) A rule providing for ascertaining the correctness of any employer's report of estimated or actual expenditure of wages and the determination a...

...If a person is convicted of any violation of Title XLIII of the Revised Code that involves the sale of intoxicating liquors at or within twelve hundred yards of the administration or main central building of the Columbus state hospital, Dayton state hospital, Athens state hospital, or Toledo state hospital, within two miles of the place at which an agricultural fair is being held, or within one mile of a county child...

...r certificate held; (6) Volunteers of hospitals and homes as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code, who render service to registered patients and inpatients who reside in such hospitals or homes; (7) Nurse aides and other employees of hospitals and homes as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code, who engage in the practice of barbering on registered patients only as part of general patient care s...

...ch of cosmetology; (5) Volunteers of hospitals, and homes as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code, who render service to registered patients and inpatients who reside in such hospitals or homes. Such volunteers shall not use or work with any chemical products such as permanent wave, hair dye, or chemical hair relaxer, which without proper training would pose a health or safety problem to the patient. ...

...(A) As used in this section, "collaboration," "physician," "standard care arrangement," and "supervision" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A physician or podiatrist shall enter into a standard care arrangement with each clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner with whom the physician or podiatrist is in collaboration. The collaborating ...

...In a hospital, an emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic may perform emergency medical services if the services are performed in accordance with both of the following conditions: (A) Only in the hospital's emergency department or while moving a patient between the emergency department and another part of the hospital; (B) Only ...

...ore institutions of higher education or hospitals licensed pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code to establish, manage, and conduct collaborative training efforts for students enrolled in courses of studies for occupations or professions that involve the care and treatment for persons receiving addiction or mental health services. (B) Such collaborative training efforts may include but are not limited to pr...

...ion, and mental health services, or any hospitals or facilities licensed or operated by the department, shall be kept confidential and shall not be disclosed by any person except: (1) If the person identified, or the person's legal guardian, if any, or if the person is a minor, the person's parent or legal guardian, consents; (2) When disclosure is provided for in this chapter or Chapter 340. or 5122. of the Revise...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, any person who is eighteen years of age or older and who is, appears to be, or believes self to be mentally ill may make written application for voluntary admission to the chief medical officer of a hospital. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the application also may be made on behalf of a minor by a parent, a guardian of the person, or ...

...The chief clinical officer of the hospital or the chief clinical officer's designee shall assure that all patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter shall: (A) Receive, within twenty days of their admission sufficient professional care to assure that an evaluation of current status, differential diagnosis, probable prognosis, and description of the current treatment plan is stated on the official ...

...The ownership of a joint township district hospital, including all right, title, and interest in and to all property, both real and personal, pertaining thereto, shall vest in the joint township district hospital board. In the selection and acquisition of a site for such hospital, the board shall have the same powers for the appropriation of lands as are conferred upon state departments, institutions, boards, or com...

...'s hospital; (b) A group of children's hospitals; (c) A group of pediatric physicians. (2) "Children's hospital" has the same meaning as in section 2151.86 of the Revised Code. (B) If the department of medicaid includes in the care management system, pursuant to section 5167.03 of the Revised Code, individuals under twenty-one years of age who are included in the category of individuals who receive medicaid o...

...The department of medicaid may audit a hospital to ensure that the hospital properly pays the amount it is assessed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code. The department shall take action to recover from a hospital any amount the audit reveals that the hospital should have paid but did not pay.

...(A) The franchise permit fee rate shall be determined for each fiscal year as follows: (1) Determine the estimated total net patient revenues for all nursing homes and hospital long-term care units for the fiscal year; (2) Multiply the estimated total net patient revenues determined under division (A)(1) of this section by the lesser of the following: (a) The indirect guarantee percentage; (b) Six per cent....

...The department of medicaid shall do all of the following: (A) Subject to sections 5168.44, 5168.45, and 5168.48 of the Revised Code and divisions (C) and (D) of this section and for the purposes specified in section 5168.54 of the Revised Code, determine an annual franchise permit fee on each nursing home in an amount equal to the franchise permit fee rate multiplied by the product of the following: (1) The ...

...ations and notify the nursing homes and hospitals in accordance with section 5168.47 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Not later than the fifteenth day of September of each year, the department of medicaid shall determine the annual franchise permit fee for each nursing home and hospital in accordance with section 5168.42 of the Revised Code and any adjustments made in accordance with sections 5168.44 and 5168.45 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than the first day of October of each year, the department shall notify, electroni...