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...(A) As used in this section and section 3701.741 of the Revised Code: (1) "Ambulatory care facility" means a facility that provides medical, diagnostic, or surgical treatment to patients who do not require hospitalization, including a dialysis center, ambulatory surgical facility, cardiac catheterization facility, diagnostic imaging center, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy center, home health agency, inpatien...

...cial communications shall be on written forms prescribed by and approved by the director of health. (B) The director, subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall propose, modify, amend, and adopt rules, standards, guidelines, and official policies which are consistent with federal law, as it deems necessary to implement the capital expenditures review program. (C) The director shall make all findings an...

...(A) There is hereby re-created a foundation as described in section 170 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, which shall be known as the Ohio medical quality foundation. The foundation shall be administered by thirteen trustees, one of whom shall be the director of health and the remaining twelve of whom shall be appointed by the governor within ninety days of July 21, 1994...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3701.9212 of the Revised Code, all of the following are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, shall be confidential, and shall be published only in statistical form: (A) Information, data, and records collected for use and maintained by the Ohio violent death reporting system including, but not limited to, medical records, law enforcement investiga...

...(A) As part of the patient centered medical home program established under section 3701.94 of the Revised Code, the department of health shall establish a voluntary patient centered medical home certification program. (B) Each primary care practice, that seeks a patient centered medical home certificate shall submit an application on a form prepared by the department. The department may require an application...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Assessment" means either of the following: (a) A hospital community health needs assessment that meets the requirements set forth in 26 C.F.R. 1.501(r)-3(b); (b) An assessment of community health conducted by a board of health. (2) "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 under section...

...An ambulatory surgical facility that performs or induces abortions shall comply with section 3701.791 of the Revised Code. (H) The following entities are not required to obtain a license as a freestanding diagnostic imaging center issued under this section: (1) A hospital registered under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code that provides diagnostic imaging; (2) An entity that is reviewed as part of a hospital a...

...d shall be submitted to the director on forms and in the manner prescribed by the director. An application for which expedited review is requested must meet the same requirements as all other applications. Each application shall include a plan for obligating the capital expenditures or implementing the proposed project on a timely basis in accordance with section 3702.524 of the Revised Code. Each application shal...

...Every six months after complying with section 3702.524 of the Revised Code, the holder of the certificate of need shall demonstrate to the director of health, in the form and manner required by rules adopted under section 3702.57 of the Revised Code, that reasonable progress is being made toward the completion of the reviewable activity. If the director determines, in accordance with standards specified in the ...

...(A) A primary care physician who will not have an outstanding obligation for medical service to the federal government, a state, or other entity at the time of participation in the physician loan repayment program and meets one of the following requirements may apply for participation in the physician loan repayment program: (1) The primary care physician is enrolled in the final year of an accredited program requir...

...(A) An individual who will not have an outstanding obligation for dental service to the federal government, a state, or other entity at the time of participation in the dentist loan repayment program and meets one of the following requirements may apply for participation in the dentist loan repayment program: (1) The applicant is a dental student enrolled in the final year of dental college. (2) The applica...

...(A) An individual who will not have an outstanding obligation for dental hygiene service to the federal government, a state, or other entity at the time of participation in the dental hygienist loan repayment program and meets either of the following requirements may apply for participation in the dental hygienist loan repayment program: (1) The applicant is a dental hygiene student enrolled in the final year of den...

...(A) An individual who has not received other student loan repayment assistance and meets either of the following requirements may apply for participation in the chiropractic loan repayment program: (1) The individual is a chiropractic student enrolled in the final year of chiropractic school or college. (2) The individual holds a current, valid license to practice chiropractic issued under Chapter 4734. of the Re...

...No plumbing work shall be done in any building or place coming within the jurisdiction of the division of industrial compliance, except in cases of repairs or leaks in existing plumbing, until a permit has been issued by the division. Before granting such permit, an application shall be made by the owner of the property or by the person, firm, or corporation which is to do the work. The application shall be ma...

...orting requirements in a manner that conforms with each applicable requirement. To the extent consistent with the federal Clean Air Act and except as otherwise agreed to by the owner or operator of an air contaminant source and the director, the director shall not require an operating restriction that has the practical effect of increasing the stringency of an existing applicable emission limitation or standard. (...

...(A) No person shall cause, permit, or allow emission of an air contaminant in violation of any rule adopted by the director of environmental protection under division (E) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code unless the person is the holder of a variance that is issued under division (H) of that section and consistent with the federal Clean Air Act permitting the emission of the contaminant in excess of that permitt...

...(A) The director of environmental protection, with the advice of the small business stationary source technical and environmental compliance assistance council created in section 3704.19 of the Revised Code, shall establish a technical and environmental compliance assistance program for small business stationary sources. The program shall include all of the following: (1) Adequate mechanisms for developing, collecti...

...(A) A birth certificate for each live birth in this state shall be filed in the registration district in which it occurs within ten calendar days after such birth and shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance with this section. (B) When a birth occurs in or en route to an institution, the person in charge of the institution or a designated representative shall obtain the personal data, pr...

...Whoever finds a living infant of unknown parentage shall immediately report such finding to the local registrar of vital statistics of the registration district in which the child is found, on a prescribed form which shall state: (A) Date of finding; (B) Place of finding; (C) Sex of child; (D) Race of the child; (E) Approximate age of the child; (F) Name and address of the person or institution with whom the ch...

...An adopted person whose birth occurred in this state, whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, who did not have a new or reissued birth record in the person's adopted name prepared pursuant to division (C) or (D) of section 3705.12 of the Revised Code as those divisions existed before March 19, 1985, and whose adoption is in full force and effect, may apply to the department of health at any time for ...

...Whoever claims to have been born in this state, and whose registration of birth is not recorded, or has been lost or destroyed, or has not been properly and accurately recorded, may file an application for registration of birth or correction of the birth record in the probate court of the county of the person's birth or residence or the county in which the person's mother resided at the time of the person's bir...

...(A) Except as provided in this section, records received and information assembled by the birth defects information system pursuant to section 3705.30 of the Revised Code are confidential medical records. (B)(1) The director of health may use information assembled by the system to notify parents, guardians, and custodians of children with congenital anomalies or abnormal conditions of medical care and other servic...

...dity contracts, accept notes and other forms of obligation to evidence such indebtedness and mortgages, liens, pledges, assignments, or other security interests to secure such indebtedness, which may be prior or subordinate to or on a parity with other indebtedness, obligations, mortgages, pledges, assignments, other security interests, or liens or encumbrances, and take such actions as may be considered by it...

...(A) Each physician or other person called to attend a person having cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, or required by the department of health to be reported, shall report to the health commissioner within whose jurisdiction the sick person is found the name, age, sex, and color of the patient, and the house and place in which t...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may empower the board of health of the city or general health district of which the municipal corporation is a part to employ such number of scavengers for the removal of swill, garbage, and offal from the houses, buildings, yards, and lots within the municipal corporation as are necessary. In such case, the board may make contracts therefor, subject to the approva...