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...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...

...s and practices; (4) Specify how the department of health will determine whether a person is financially unable to pay for a hearing screening and define "third-party payer" for the purpose of reimbursement of hearing screening by the department under section 3701.505 of the Revised Code; (5) Specify an inexpensive and efficient format and procedures for the submission of hearing screening information from hosp...

...(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...

... (f) Reporting screening results to the department of health; (g) Referring newborns that receive abnormal screening 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 l...

...Any inflammation, swelling, or redness in either one or both eyes of any infant, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eyes of such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any, occurring any time within two weeks after the birth of such infant, shall be known as "inflammation of the eyes of the newborn." Any inflammation of the conjunctiva or cornea, either apart from or t...

...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, except in the case of a medical emergency.

...eafter, 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.

...sult of all such investigations, as the department of health directs; (C) Conform to such other rules and regulations as the department promulgates for the health commissioner's further guidance; (D) Determine the nature of the inflammation of the eyes in any case reported to the health commissioner, and refer immediately to the bureau of services for the visually impaired, any inflammation of the eyes, for such ...

...also to the prosecuting attorney of the county wherein the violation 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.

... isolation orders, and the rules the department of health adopts.

...rder. The court of common pleas of the county in which the offense is alleged to be occurring may grant such injunctive or other appropriate relief as the equities of the case require.

...(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.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Addiction services" and "alcohol and 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 preg...

...Every hospital agency, as defined in section 140.01 of the Revised Code, may offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer 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 sh...

...o 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, mammography services providers, radiology services providers, federally qualified health centers as defined by section 3701.047 of the Revised Code, rural health centers, or other community health centers.

...ion 5747.113 of the Revised Code. The department of health shall distribute all funds contributed under this section to an eligible nonprofit corporation that will use the contributions to grant the wishes of individuals who are under the age of eighteen, are residents of this state, and have been diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. Not later than six months after September 29, 2015, the department...

...ice as a physician assistant. (B) The department of health shall establish a grant program to address 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 sh...

...(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...

...(A) The director of health shall establish guidelines for a state-level review of deaths of children under eighteen years of age who, at the time of death, were residents of this state. (B) The purpose of a review conducted pursuant to guidelines adopted under this section is to decrease the incidence of preventable child deaths by doing all of the following: (1) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communicat...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, public children services agency, private child placing agency, or agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a child whose death is being reviewed by the director of health pursua...

...(A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, 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 parti...

...exercise of the proper functions of the department of health. (B) The director may disclose the confidential information described in division (A) of this section to a fetal and infant mortality review team. (C) No person shall knowingly permit or encourage the unauthorized dissemination of the confidential information described in division (A) of this section. (D) Whoever violates division (C) of this section is ...

...ng medical and nursing care in city and county institutions.