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...(A) The director of health shall establish a state nurse aide registry listing all individuals who have done any of the following: (1) Were used by a long-term care facility as nurse aides on a full-time, temporary, per diem, or other basis at any time during the period commencing July 1, 1989, and ending January 1, 1990, and successfully completed, not later than October 1, 1990, a competency evaluation program ap...

...(A) Upon the filing of an initial application for licensure under section 3722.03 of the Revised Code, the director of health may inspect the hospital prior to issuing or denying the applicant a license to operate a hospital. An applicant may avoid such an inspection if the applicant submits with the application a copy of the hospital's most recent final on-site survey report from the federal centers for medicare and...

...(A) As used in this section, "imminent threat of harm" means imminent danger of serious physical or life-threatening harm to one or more occupants of a hospital. (B) If, in the judgment of the director of health, an imminent threat of harm exists at any licensed hospital, the director may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the hospital is located for such injunctive relief as is necessary to ...

...(A) The director of health shall do all of the following: (1) Administer the radon licensing program established by this chapter and enforce the requirements of this chapter and the rules adopted under it; (2) Examine records of radon testers, mitigation specialists, mitigation contractors, and operators of radon laboratories and training courses approved under section 3723.07 of the Revised Code as he considers ne...

...Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, every hospital shall adopt protocols providing for conducting an interview with the patient, for conducting one or more interviews, separate and apart from the interview with the patient, with any family or household member present, and for creating whenever possible a photographic record of the patient's injuries, in situations in which a doctor of...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 3727.10 and 3727.101 of the Revised Code: (1) "Trauma," "trauma care," "trauma center," "trauma patient," "pediatric," and "adult" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Stabilize" and "transfer" have the same meanings as in section 1753.28 of the Revised Code. (B) On and after November 3, 2002, each hospital in this state that is not a tr...

...(A) If a hospital is seeking initial verification as an adult or pediatric trauma center, verification at a different level, or reverification after having ceased to be verified for one year or longer, the hospital shall submit an application to the American college of surgeons for a consultation visit. If a hospital is seeking reverification after having ceased to be verified for less than one year, the hospital sha...

...(A) Each hospital system, and each hospital that is not part of a hospital system, shall establish a security plan for preventing workplace violence. In developing the plan, the hospital system or hospital shall involve a team consisting of members selected by the hospital system or hospital, subject to both of the following: (1) At least one member of the team shall be a current or former patient of the hospital s...

...As used in sections 3727.31 to 3727.40 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ancillary service" means a hospital item or service that a hospital customarily provides as part of a shoppable service. (B) "Chargemaster" means the list maintained by a hospital of each hospital item or service for which the hospital has established a charge. (C) "De-identified maximum negotiated charge" means the highest charge that a hospital ...

...(A) At least once every two years, the hospital-wide nursing care committee convened pursuant to section 3727.51 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following: (1) Review how the nursing services staffing plan in effect at the time of the review does all of the following: (a) Affects inpatient care outcomes; (b) Affects clinical management; (c) Facilitates a delivery system that provides, on a cost-effective...

...(A) The review of a discharge plan that has been created under section 3727.75 of the Revised Code shall be conducted in a manner that is culturally sensitive to each individual who participates in the review. In accordance with state and federal law and if appropriate, the hospital shall arrange for an interpreter to be present during the instruction. (B)(1) The review described in division (A) of this section sha...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Camp operator" means the operator of a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, combined park-camp, or temporary park-camp. (B) "Campsite user" means a person who enters into a campsite use agreement with a camp operator for the use of a campsite at a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, combined park-camp, or temporary park-camp. (C) "Combined park-camp" means any tra...

...(A) A campsite user who enters into a campsite use agreement with a camp operator for the use of a campsite at a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, combined park-camp, or temporary park-camp, at the expiration of the campsite use period under the agreement, shall remove from the campsite all of the campsite user's property and all property any other person placed on the campsite with the permission of the ca...

...A person seeking approval to operate a business that offers tattooing or body piercing services shall apply to the board of health of the city or general health district in which the business is located on forms the board shall prescribe and provide. The applicant shall submit all information the board of health determines is necessary to process the application. The applicant shall include the fee established under ...

...A board of health shall conduct at least one inspection of a business prior to approving the business under section 3730.03 of the Revised Code to offer tattooing or body piercing services. The board may conduct additional inspections as necessary for the approval process. A board of health may inspect an approved business at any time the board considers necessary. In an inspection, a board of health shall be given a...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health in any city as authorized by section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (B) "Director" means the director of environmental protection. (C) "Health district" means a city or general health district as created by or under authority of Chapter 3709. of t...

...The owner or operator of an off-site infectious waste treatment facility shall pay the fees levied by an ordinance or resolution adopted under section 3734.024 of the Revised Code monthly to the treasurer or other such officer of the municipal corporation as, by virtue of the charter, has the duties of the treasurer or to the fiscal officer of the township. The owner or operator shall remit the fees to the treasurer...

...(A) Promptly after issuing a periodic assessment under division (B) of section 3734.123 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall make a determination as to whether it is necessary or appropriate to continue the restrictions established in division (C) of section 3734.123 of the Revised Code during the period of time between the issuance of the assessment and the issuance of the next succeed...

...(A) No person shall transport hazardous waste anywhere in this state unless the person has first filed an annual registration statement with, and paid an annual registration fee to, the United States department of transportation in accordance with 49 C.F.R. 107.601 to 107.620. For the purposes of this section, "registered transporter" means any person who has filed an annual registration statement with, and paid an ...

...(A) The director of environmental protection may acquire by purchase, gift, donation, contribution, or appropriation in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.21 of the Revised Code any hazardous waste facility or any solid waste facility containing significant quantities of hazardous waste that, because of its condition and the types and quantities of hazardous waste contained in the facility, constitutes an imminen...

...The general assembly hereby finds and declares the following to be the public policy of this state: (A) That the off-site treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste and the off-site disposal of solid wastes, including incineration, and transfer of solid wastes are critical components of the economic structure of this state and, when properly controlled and regulated, make substantial contributions to the g...

...(A) There is hereby created within the environmental protection agency the materials management advisory council consisting of the following thirteen members who shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate: (1) One member who is an employee of a health district whose duties include enforcement of the solid waste provisions of this chapter; (2) One member representing the interests o...

...(A) Upon completion of its draft solid waste management plan under section 3734.54 of the Revised Code, the solid waste management policy committee of a county or joint solid waste management district shall send a copy of the draft plan to the director of environmental protection for preliminary review and comment. Within forty-five days after receiving the draft plan, the director shall provide the committee w...

...(A) The following fees are hereby levied on the transfer or disposal of solid wastes in this state: (1) Seventy-one cents per ton through June 30, 2028, eleven cents of the proceeds of which shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the hazardous waste facility management fund created in section 3734.18 of the Revised Code and sixty cents of the proceeds of which shall be deposited in the state tre...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Recycling" means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting waste or other discarded materials for the purpose of recovering and reusing the materials. (2) "Automotive shredder residue" means the nonrecyclable residue that is generated as a direct result of processing automobiles, appliances, sheet steel, and other ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal...