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...The chief clinical officer of the hospital or the chief clinical officer's designee shall assure that all patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter shall: (A) Receive, within twenty days of their admission sufficient professional care to assure that an evaluation of current status, differential diagnosis, probable prognosis, and description of the current treatment plan is stated on the official ...

... the chief clinical officer or, in a nonpublic hospital, the attending physician responsible for a patient's care shall provide all information, including expected physical and medical consequences, necessary to enable any patient of a hospital for persons with mental illnesses to give a fully informed, intelligent, and knowing consent, the opportunity to consult with independent specialists and counsel, and the righ...

...No patient of a hospital for persons with mental illnesses shall be compelled to perform labor which involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the hospital or for which the hospital is under contract with an outside organization. Privileges or release from the hospital shall not be conditional upon the performance of such labor. Patients who volunteer to perform such labor shall be compensated at a rate deri...

...All patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter have the following rights: (A) The right to a written list of all rights enumerated in this chapter, to that person, that person's legal guardian, and that person's counsel. If the person is unable to read, the list shall be read and explained to the person. (B) The right at all times to be treated with consideration and respect for the patient's...

...Any person detained pursuant to this chapter or section 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, or 2945.402 of the Revised Code shall be entitled to the writ of habeas corpus upon proper petition by self or by 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 involunta...

...No person shall be deprived of any public or private employment solely because of having been admitted to a hospital or otherwise receiving services, voluntarily or involuntarily, for a mental illness or other mental disability. Any person admitted to a hospital or otherwise taken into custody, voluntarily or involuntarily, under this chapter retains all civil rights not specifically denied in the Revised Code or re...

...(A) All certificates, applications, records, and reports made for the purpose of this chapter and sections 2945.38, 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, and 2945.402 of the Revised Code, other than court journal entries or court docket entries, and directly or indirectly identifying a patient or former patient or person whose hospitalization or commitment has been sought under this chapter, shall be kept confidential and shal...

... provided in this division, and are not public records. (C) The attorney general, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall prescribe and make available to all probate judges and all chief clinical officers a form to be used by them for the purpose of making the notifications required by division (A) of this section.

...ce records are confidential and are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, and shall be used only in the course of the proper functions of a quality assurance program. (2) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, no person who possesses or has access to quality assurance records and who knows that the records are quality assurance records shall willfully disclose the contents of the ...

...from the chief clinical officer of any public hospital relating to the admission, examination, diagnosis, release, or discharge of any patient; visit each such hospital regularly to review the admission procedures of all new patients admitted between visits; investigate by personal visit complaints made by any patient or by any person on behalf of a patient; and adopt such rules as are reasonably necessary to ...

...(A) Persons, including, but not limited to, boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health services providers, acting in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or information thought by them to be reliable, who procedurally or physically assist in the hospitalization or discharge, determination of appropriate placement, court-ordered treatment, or in judicial proceed...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Facility or provider" means, in the context of a person committed to the department of mental health and addiction services under sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code, any entity in which the department of mental health and addiction services places such a person. (2) "Person committed to the department" means a person committed to the department of mental health ...

...(A) In a case in which the jurisdiction of a court has not been specifically given or the procedure provided for, the court in the county in which a person alleged to be mentally ill is found shall have full, complete, and general jurisdiction to make disposition of such person in accordance with the procedure prescribed by Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code. (B) When an affidavit is filed in the court as provided in...

...If the legal residence of a person with a mental illness is in another county of the state, the necessary expense of the person's return is a proper charge against the county of legal residence. If an adjudication and order of hospitalization by the probate court of the county of temporary residence are required, the regular probate court fees and expenses incident to the order of hospitalization under this chapter a...

...Each individual now or formerly hospitalized pursuant to this chapter or former Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code, is entitled to an adjudication of competency or incompetency or termination of guardianship upon written request by any such individual, his guardian, or the chief clinical officer to the probate court. The court, on its own motion, may initiate such a hearing. Upon filing of such application, or on the...

...found to be dependent or neglected, the public children's services agency in the county of residence has final guardianship authority and responsibility. (B) In no case shall the guardianship of a person with a mental illness be assigned to the chief medical officer or any staff member of a hospital, board, or provider from which the person is receiving mental health services.

...The court, upon making an order hospitalizing a person under this chapter, shall immediately transmit to the chief clinical officer of the hospital, copies, under his official seal, of court papers in the case, including the certificate of the medical witnesses and of his findings in the case. Upon hospitalization, the chief clinical officer of the hospital to which the patient is admitted shall take possession of a...

...Nothing in this chapter limits any rights, privileges, or immunities under the constitution, and laws of the United States or this state.

...(A) Costs, fees, and expenses of all proceedings held under this chapter shall be paid as follows: (1) 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; (2) To sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed for similar services in the court of common pleas; (3) To physicians or licensed clinical psy...

...nds of or adjacent to the grounds of a public hospital: (1) Name; (2) Date of birth; (3) Date of death or burial; (4) Specific physical location of the burial, entombment, or inurnment, including the plot or grave site number if available. (B) "Patient" means an individual who died while admitted to a public hospital that was under the control of the department of mental health and addiction services. (C) "...

...unds of or adjacent to the grounds of a public hospital that is under the control of the department on March 31, 2005. The compilation shall be created within a reasonable time not exceeding three years after March 31, 2005. The department shall use its best efforts to create the most complete compilations possible using records in the department's possession and records obtained in accordance with section 5122...

...The Ohio history connection and each state agency shall, at the request of the department of mental health and addiction services, provide the department access to records and information in the possession of the Ohio history connection or state agency for purposes of creating compilations.

...The department of mental health and addiction services shall deposit a copy of each compilation with the Ohio history connection and the state library as soon as a compilation is completed. The department shall not disclose any record or information used to create a compilation except as provided in sections 149.43 and 5122.31 of the Revised Code.

...A person who violates division (B)(2) of section 5122.32 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars on a first offense and not more than twenty thousand dollars on a subsequent offense.

...ining. (F) "Health officer" means any public health physician, public health nurse, or other person authorized or designated by a city or general health district. (G) "Home and community-based services" means medicaid-funded home and community-based services specified in division (A)(1) of section 5166.20 of the Revised Code provided under the medicaid waiver components the department of developmental disabilitie...