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...All residents of institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be allowed to communicate freely with others, including but not restricted to the following: (A) Receiving visitors at reasonable times; (B) Being visited by counsel or personal physician, or both, at any reasonable time; (C) Having reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, including a reasonable number ...

...(A) All residents institutionalized pursuant to this chapter shall receive, within thirty days of their admission, a comprehensive evaluation, a diagnosis, a prognosis, and a description of habilitation goals consistent therewith. (B) All such residents shall have a written habilitation plan consistent with the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and goals which shall be provided, upon request of residen...

...When a resident institutionalized pursuant to this chapter is discharged from the institution, the managing officer of the institution may provide the resident with all personal items that were purchased in implementing the resident's habilitation plan established pursuant to section 5123.85 of the Revised Code. The personal items may be provided to the resident, regardless of the source of the funds that were used t...

...censed physician who is not a full-time employee of the state may be provided to the court in the county in which the institution is located. The court may approve the surgery or experimental procedure. Before approving the surgery or experimental procedure, the court shall notify the Ohio protection and advocacy system created by section 5123.60 of the Revised Code, and shall notify the resident of the resident's ri...

...(A) No resident of an institution for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be compelled to perform labor that involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the institution or for which the institution is under contract with an outside organization. Privileges or release from the institution shall not be conditional upon the performance of such labor. Residents who volunteer to perform such labor shall...

...Any person detained pursuant to this chapter shall be entitled to the writ of habeas corpus upon proper petition by self or a friend to any court generally empowered to issue the writ of habeas corpus in the county in which the person is detained. No person may bring a petition for a writ of habeas corpus that alleges that a person involuntarily detained pursuant to this chapter is no longer a person with an intel...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Family" means a parent, brother, sister, spouse, son, daughter, grandparent, aunt, uncle, or cousin. (2) "Payment" means activities undertaken by a service provider or government entity to obtain or provide reimbursement for services provided to a person. (3) "Treatment" means the provision of services to a person, including the coordination or management of services provided t...

... instituted on behalf of or against any public institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities and the managing officer thereof. If a writ of habeas corpus is applied for, the clerk of the court shall give notice of the time and place of hearing to the attorney general.

...All persons who are not subject to any criminal provisions and who act reasonable and in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or upon information reasonably thought by them to be reliable, shall be free from any liability to a person institutionalized in institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities or to any other person in their procedural or physical assistance administered in the course of the in...

...If an affidavit alleging that a person has an intellectual disability and is subject to institutionalization by court order is filed, according to the provisions of section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, in the probate division of a county within the institutional district but not in the county within which the institution is located, and if such person is detained in the institution, the probate division of the coun...

...ed to the managing officer or any other employee of an institution in which the person is institutionalized, or be assigned, unless there is a relationship by blood or marriage or unless the service is a protective service as defined in section 5123.55 of the Revised Code, to a person or agency who provides services to the person with an intellectual disability.

...The probate judge, upon making an order institutionalizing a person under this chapter, shall forthwith transmit copies, under the judge's official seal, of court papers in the case, including the certificate of the expert witnesses, and of the judge's findings in the case to the managing officer of the institution for persons with intellectual disabilities. If not otherwise furnished, the probate judge shall see th...

...Costs, fees, and expenses of all proceedings held under this chapter shall be paid as follows: (A) To police and health officers, other than sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed to constables, to be paid upon the approval of the probate judge; (B) To sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed for similar services in the court of common pleas; (C) To physicians or licensed clinical psychologists...

...In cases of proceedings held under this chapter, the probate judge shall file and preserve all papers filed with him and make such entries upon his docket as, together with the papers so filed, will constitute a complete record of each case determined by him.

...ed Code is a developmental disabilities employee, as defined in section 5123.50 of the Revised Code, the offender shall be eligible to be included in the registry regarding misappropriation, abuse, neglect, or other specified misconduct by developmental disabilities employees established under section 5123.52 of the Revised Code.

... related to an ICF/IID and purchased at public issue or a regulated lender that has made a loan related to the ICF/IID unless the holder or lender operates the ICF/IID directly or through a subsidiary. (MM) "Partially converted ICF/IID" means an ICF/IID that converted some, but not all, of its beds to providing home and community-based services under the individual options waiver pursuant to section 5124.60 or 512...

...The department of medicaid shall enter into a contract with the department of developmental disabilities under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code that provides for the department of developmental disabilities to assume the powers and duties of the department of medicaid with regard to the medicaid program's coverage of ICF/IID services. The contract shall include a schedule for the assumption of the powers and...

...To the extent authorized by rules authorized by section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this chapter.

...The medicaid program shall cover ICF/IID services when all of the following apply: (A) The ICF/IID services are provided to a medicaid recipient eligible for the services. (B) The ICF/IID services are provided by an ICF/IID for which the provider has a valid provider agreement. (C) Federal financial participation is available for the ICF/IID services.

...(A) Subject to section 5124.072 of the Revised Code, an ICF/IID operator is eligible to enter into a provider agreement for an ICF/IID if all of the following apply: (1) The ICF/IID is certified by the director of health for participation in medicaid; (2) The ICF/IID is licensed by the director of developmental disabilities as a residential facility; (3) Subject to division (B) of this section, the operator a...

...(A) Except as provided in section 5124.072 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall enter into a provider agreement with an ICF/IID operator who applies, and is eligible, for the provider agreement. (B) A provider agreement shall require the department of developmental disabilities, pursuant to its agreement with the department of medicaid under section 5124.02 of the Revised Code, to make medica...

...An ICF/IID operator may enter into provider agreements for more than one ICF/IID.

...The department of medicaid shall not revalidate an ICF/IID provider agreement if the provider fails to maintain eligibility for the provider agreement as provided in section 5124.06 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Every provider agreement with an ICF/IID provider shall do both of the following: (1) Except as provided by division (B) of this section, include any part of the ICF/IID that meets federal and state standards for medicaid certification; (2) Prohibit the provider from doing either of the following: (a) Discriminating against a resident on the basis of race, color, sex, creed, or national origin; (b) Subje...

...An ICF/IID resident has a cause of action against the provider of the ICF/IID for breach of the provider agreement obligations or other duties imposed by section 5124.08 of the Revised Code. The action may be commenced by the resident, or on the resident's behalf by the resident's sponsor, by the filing of a civil action in the court of common pleas of the county in which the ICF/IID is located or in the court ...