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...A variance the director of health grants under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code is effective for the period of time specified by the director, except that it shall not be effective beyond the date the ambulatory surgical facility's license expires. If a variance is to expire on the date the facility's license expires, the facility may submit to the director an application for a new variance with its next li...

...C) The ambulatory surgical facility becomes aware of an event, including disciplinary action by the state medical board pursuant to section 4731.22 of the Revised Code, that may affect a consulting physician's license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery or the physician's ability to admit patients to a hospital identified in a variance application, as described in division (B)(3)(e) o...

...Revised Code, or any provision of the rules adopted under that section.

... of a written transfer agreement that meets the requirements of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. (2) The director grants the facility a variance pursuant to the requirements and procedures under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code; (3) The license is required to be reinstated pursuant to an order issued in accordance with sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code. (B) If a facility's license remains unde...

...ital shall not be further than thirty miles from an ambulatory surgical facility with which the local hospital has a written transfer agreement under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code.

...e variance for any reason, including a determination by the director that the facility is failing to meet one or more of the conditions or no longer adequately protects public health and safety. The director's decision to rescind a variance is final.

...ry surgical facility shall adopt and implement a policy designed to prevent human exposure to surgical smoke during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke. The policy shall include the use of a surgical smoke evacuation system. (C) The director of health may adopt any rules the director considers necessary to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Ch...

... (B)(1) and (2) of this section shall meet both of the following requirements: (a) The total fees charged to a health care provider under this section shall not exceed five thousand dollars annually. (b) The fee shall exclude any costs reimbursable by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services as part of the certification process for the medicare program established under Title XVIII of the "S...

...ces; (4) Impose a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars upon the health care facility for operating without a license; (5) Impose an additional civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars for each day that the health care facility operates without a license. (B)(1) If a health care facility subject to ...

... Code may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the facility is located for an order enjoining the facility from continuing to operate without a license. The court shall grant the order on a showing that the facility named in the petition is violating division (E) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code.

...option of having a long- acting reversible contraceptive placed after delivery and before the woman is discharged. (B) A freestanding birthing center is exempt from the requirement in division (A) of this section if the freestanding birthing center notifies the department of health in writing that it has a faith-based objection to the requirement.

...reening breast ultrasound or breast magnetic resonance imaging. This information about your breast density is being provided to you to raise your awareness. It is important to continue routine screening mammograms and use this information to speak with your health care provider about your own risk for breast cancer. At that time, ask your health care provider if more screening tests might be useful based on your risk...

...ion 3702.52 of the Revised Code as to whether a particular proposed project is or is not a reviewable activity. (Q) "County nursing home" has the same meaning as in section 5155.31 of the Revised Code. (R) "Principal participant" means both of the following: (1) A person who has an ownership or controlling interest of at least five per cent in an applicant, in a long-term care facility that is the subject of an...

... imminent threat to public health or safety and are in violation of federal, state, or local fire, building, or safety statutes, ordinances, rules, or regulations; (5) Acquisition of an existing long-term care facility that does not involve a change in the number of the beds; (6) Mergers, consolidations, or other corporate reorganizations of long-term care facilities that do not involve a change in the number o...

...beds to a nursing home is not a reviewable activity under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code, and therefore does not require a certificate of need, if all of the following apply: (1) The nursing home is licensed under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code or by a political subdivision certified under section 3721.09 of the Revised Code; (2) The nursing home does not participate in medicare or medicaid;...

...eposited into the state treasury to the credit of the certificate of need fund, which is hereby created. The director shall use the fund only to pay the costs of administering sections 3702.30 and 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those sections. An application fee is nonrefundable unless the director determines that the application cannot be accepted. (3) The director shall review app...

...ing skilled nursing patients. (B) For assistance in monitoring the use of hospital beds recategorized as skilled nursing beds after August 5, 1989, the director shall adopt rules specifying appropriate quarterly procedures for reporting to the department of health. (C) A patient may stay in a hospital bed that, after August 5, 1989, has been recategorized as a skilled nursing bed for more than thirty days if the ...

...en notice that the application is complete. (B) The application is subject to a comparative review under section 3702.593 of the Revised Code. The only revision that may be made in the revised application is the site of the proposed project. The revised site of the proposed project must be located in the same county as the site of the proposed project specified in the original application. The director may no...

... is not transferable prior to the completion of the reviewable activity for which it was granted. If any person holding a certificate of need transfers the certificate of need to another person before the reviewable activity is completed, or enters into an agreement that contemplates the transfer of the certificate of need on the completion of the reviewable activity, the certificate of need is void. If the co...

...f the certificate of need specifying whether the holder has complied with division (A) of this section. (C) A certificate of need expires, regardless of whether the director sends a notice under division (B) of this section, if the holder fails to comply with division (A) of this section or to provide information under division (B) of this section as necessary for the director to determine compliance. The det...

...progress is being made toward the completion of the reviewable activity. If the director determines, in accordance with standards specified in the rules, that reasonable progress is not being made, the director shall withdraw the certificate of need.

...ertificate of need so that the reviewable activity for which the approved certificate of need was granted can be implemented in a manner that is not in substantial accordance with the approved certificate of need. (2) The applicant is the same as the applicant for the approved certificate of need or an affiliated or related person as described in division (B) of section 3702.523 of the Revised Code. (3) The s...

...A bed described in division (O)(5) of section 3702.51 of the Revised Code may be converted to a bed described in division (O)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of that section only as provided in the certificate of need under which the beds were approved or its replacement certificate of need.

...) No person shall carry out any reviewable activity unless a certificate of need for such activity has been granted under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code or the person is exempted by division (B) of section 3702.511 or section 3702.512 or 3702.62 of the Revised Code from the requirement that a certificate of need be obtained. No person shall carry out any reviewable activity if a certificate of need a...

...hat protects patient confidentiality. Names or other identifying information about any patient shall not be made public without the written consent of the patient or the patient's guardian, or, if the patient is a minor, the patient's parent or guardian.