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...As used in this chapter: (A) "New community" means a community or development of property in relation to an existing community planned so that the resulting community includes facilities for the conduct of industrial, commercial, residential, cultural, educational, and recreational activities, and designed in accordance with planning concepts for the placement of utility, open space, and other supportive facilitie...

...f the Revised Code. (E) "Third-party benefits" means any and all benefits paid by a third party to or on behalf of a child or youth with special health care needs participating in the program or the child or youth's parent or guardian for goods or services that are authorized by the department pursuant to division (B) or (D) of section 3701.023 of the Revised Code. (F) "Hemophilia program" means the hemophilia ...

...There is hereby created the children and youth with special health care needs medical advisory council consisting of twenty-one members to be appointed by the director of health for terms set in accordance with rules adopted by the director under division (A)(11) of section 3701.021 of the Revised Code. The children and youth with special health care needs medical advisory council shall advise the director regarding ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Free clinic" means a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," as amended, or a program component of a nonprofit organization, to which both of the following apply: (a) Its primary mission is to provide health care services for free or for a minimal administrative fee to individuals with limited resour...

...tment options, including the risks and benefits of those options; (4) Information on environmental safety and injury prevention; (5) Information on rest and the use of appropriate body mechanics; (6) Information on the availability of diagnostic, treatment, and outreach services for CRPS; (7) Information concerning any other factors or elements that might mitigate the effects of CRPS. (C) The department sha...

...(A) In taking actions regarding tuberculosis, the director of health has all of the following duties and powers: (1) The director shall maintain registries of hospitals, clinics, physicians, certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse practitioners, or other care providers to whom the director shall refer persons who make inquiries to the department of health regarding possible exposure t...

...cerning the effectiveness, impact, and benefits of the poison prevention and treatment centers.

...(A) As used in this section, "health care provider" means any person or government entity that provides health care services to individuals. "Health care provider" includes, but is not limited to, hospitals, medical clinics and offices, special care facilities, medical laboratories, physicians, pharmacists, dentists, physician assistants, registered and licensed practical nurses, laboratory technicians, emerge...

...(A) Except as provided in this section or section 3701.248 of the Revised Code, no person or agency of state or local government that acquires the information while providing any health care service or while in the employ of a health care facility or health care provider shall disclose or compel another to disclose any of the following: (1) The identity of any individual on whom an HIV test is performed; (2) The ...

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio public health advisory board. The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The following members appointed by the director of health from among individuals who are not employed by the state and are recommended by statewide trade or professional organizations that represent interests in public health: (a) One individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised C...

...(A) Each of the health care facilities and providers identified in division (B) of this section shall do both of the following: (1) Establish a system for identifying patients or residents who could benefit from palliative care; (2) Provide information on palliative care to patients and residents who could benefit from palliative care. (B) Division (A) of this section applies to all of the following: (1) A ho...

...Applications for grants, loans, or loan guarantees under the federal act for hospital and medical facilities construction or modernization projects shall be submitted to the director of health and may be submitted by the state or any political subdivision thereof or by any other public or nonprofit agency eligible under the federal act. Each application for a construction or modernization project shall conform to fed...

...Every physician, surgeon, obstetrician, certified nurse-midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital of any nature, parent, relative, or any others attendant on any person with inflammation of the eyes, knowing either condition, defined in section 3701.51 of the Revised 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 ...

...(A)(1) The department of health shall create a Down syndrome information sheet that includes all of the following: (a) A description of Down syndrome, including its causes, effects on development, and potential complications; (b) Diagnostic tests; (c) Options for treatment and therapy; (d) Contact information for local, state, and national organizations that provide Down syndrome educational and support servi...

...act, certificate, or agreement or limit benefits provided under a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement solely because a policyholder, subscriber, or applicant for a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement has been exposed to diethylstilbestrol or other nonsteroidal synthetic estrogens.

...(A)(1) The department of health may conduct a needs assessment to identify all of the following: (a) The level of statewide health professional and public awareness about lupus; (b) The existence of lupus education, awareness, and treatment programs and related technical assistance available in the state and nationwide; (c) The lupus-related educational and support service needs of health care providers in t...

...(A) The director of health shall develop a child survival form to be submitted to the department of health in accordance with division (B) of this section each time a child is born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. In developing the form, the director may consult with obstetricians, maternal-fetal specialists, or any other professionals the director considers appropriate. The form shall include areas for...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Automated external defibrillation" has the same meaning as in section 2305.235 of the Revised Code. (2) "Emergency medical services organization" has the same meaning as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A person as defined under section 1.59 of the Revised Code who possesses an automated external defibrillator shall do both of the following: (1) Encourage expected ...

...ed by pathologists. (B) "Assignment of benefits" means the transfer of health care coverage reimbursement benefits or other rights under an insurance policy, subscription contract, or health care plan by an insured, subscriber, or plan enrollee to a health care provider, hospital, or other health care facility. (C) "Clinical laboratory" means a facility for the biological, microbiological, serological, chemica...

...llowing: (1) Mandate the assignment of benefits for anatomic pathology services; (2) Prohibit a clinical laboratory that provides anatomic pathology services from billing a referring clinical laboratory for anatomic pathology services in instances in which the referring clinical laboratory sends one or more samples to the clinical laboratory for purposes of having a specialist perform analysis, consultatio...

...An ambulatory surgical 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" me...

...As used in sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code: (A) "Applicant" means any person that submits an application for a certificate of need and who is designated in the application as the applicant. (B) "Person" means any individual, corporation, business trust, estate, firm, partnership, association, joint stock company, insurance company, government unit, or other entity. (C) "Certificate of need" mean...

...The state shall be divided into registration districts. Each health district created by section 3709.01 of the Revised Code constitutes a primary registration district. The director of health may combine two or more primary registration districts, and may establish any state hospital, or other public institution, as a primary registration district.

...In each primary registration district, the board of health of the health district, on the recommendation of the health commissioner, shall appoint the local registrar of vital statistics. When a state hospital or other public institution has been made a primary registration district, the superintendent, or other person in charge thereof, shall be the local registrar of such district. When two or more primary registra...

...When complaint is made or a reasonable belief exists that an infectious or contagious disease prevails in a house or other locality which has not been reported as provided in section 3707.06 of the Revised Code, the board of health of a city or general health district shall cause such house or locality to be inspected by its health commissioner, and on discovering that such disease exists, the board may send the pers...