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...ice within the department of behavioral health to a position in the unclassified service within the department. A person appointed pursuant to this section to a position in the unclassified service shall retain the right to resume the position and status held by the person in the classified service immediately prior to the person's appointment to the position in the unclassified service, pursuant to division (D) of s...

...service of the department of behavioral health if the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of the following: (1) Any felony contained in the Revised Code, if the felony bears a direct and substantial relationship to the position being filled; (2) Any crime contained in the Revised Code constituting a misdemeanor of the first degree on the first offense and a felony on subsequent offenses...

...The department of behavioral health may require any of its employees and each officer and employee of every institution under its control who may be charged with custody or control of any money or property belonging to the state or who is required to give bond, to give a surety company bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the department which when approved by the department, shall be filed in the offic...

...The department of behavioral health may provide educational grants or tuition reimbursements to upgrade the education, training, and professional achievement of its employees, whenever it determines that provision of such grants or reimbursements is essential to the achievement of its goals. The department may enter into agreements with its employees for the purposes of this section. The agreements may require, as a ...

...de. (B) The department of behavioral health may establish a clinician recruitment program under which the department agrees to repay all or part of the principal and interest of a government or other educational loan incurred by a clinician who agrees to provide services to inpatients and outpatients of institutions under the department's administration. To be eligible to participate in the program, a clinician mu...

...(A) The director of behavioral health or the managing officer of an institution of the department may enter into an agreement with boards of trustees or boards of directors of one or more institutions of higher education or hospitals licensed pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code to establish, manage, and conduct collaborative training efforts for students enrolled in courses of studies for occupations or p...

...control of the department of behavioral health shall be subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction. All teachers employed in institutions under the control of the department of behavioral health shall possess such educator licenses or have such qualifications and approval as the superintendent of public instruction, after consulting with the officers in charge of the institutions, prescrib...

...de. (B) The department of behavioral health shall develop a program that is designed to educate and train the employees of each state correctional institution, the employees of each department of youth services institution, and other persons associated by contract or otherwise with each state correctional institution or each department of youth services institution, who will be responsible for the conduct of, or o...

...a program to be known as the behavioral health drug reimbursement program, which shall be administered by the department of behavioral health. The purpose of the program is to provide state financial assistance to counties for the cost of the following drugs that are administered or dispensed to inmates of county jails in this state and individuals confined in community-based correctional facilities in this state:...

...ble funds, the department of behavioral health shall provide overdose reversal drugs to hospitals to be provided to patients as described in section 3727.81 of the Revised Code. (C) The department of behavioral health, in coordination with the department of health, shall establish standards and procedures for reporting the occurrences in which overdose reversal drugs were provided as required by section 3727.811 of...

...Code. (B) The director of behavioral health shall establish a program to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation available for veterans, first responders, and law enforcement officers. Eligible individuals must have substance use disorders, mental illness, sleep disorders, traumatic brain injuries, sexual trauma, post traumatic stress disorder and accompanying comorbidities, conc...

...(A) The director of behavioral health may acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise such real and personal property rights in the name of the state as are necessary for the purposes of the department. (B) When it is necessary for a state institution under the jurisdiction of the department to acquire any real estate, right-of-way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purposes for which it was organ...

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall: (1) To the extent the department has available resources and in consultation with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, support the community-based continuum of care that the boards are required by section 340.032 of the Revised Code to establish. The department shall provide the support on a district or multi-district basis. The department sha...

...The department of behavioral health may establish a process and standards for the state certification of certified community behavioral health clinics. The process and standards may be based on the provisions of section 223 of the "Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014," 42 U.S.C. 1396a note. If the department establishes a process and standards for the state certification of certified community behavioral heal...

...The director of behavioral health, with respect to all mental health and addiction facilities, addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports established and operated or provided under Chapter 340. of the Revised Code, shall do all of the following: (A) Adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and Chapters 340. and 51...

...(A) The director of behavioral health, in accordance with procedures established under division (G)(5) of section 5119.22 of the Revised Code, may issue to a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services a time-limited waiver of the requirement of section 340.033 of the Revised Code that ambulatory detoxification and medication-assisted treatment be made available within the borders of the board's serv...

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall establish a methodology for allocating to boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services the funds appropriated by the general assembly to the department for the purpose of the community-based continuum of care that each board establishes under section 340.032 of the Revised Code. The department shall establish the methodology after notifying and consulting...

... of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall submit an annual report to the department of behavioral health specifying how the board used funds allocated to the board under section 5119.23 of the Revised Code for administrative functions in the year preceding the report's submission. The director of behavioral health shall establish the date by which the report must be submitted each year.

...(A) The director of behavioral health may withhold funds, in whole or in part, that otherwise are to be allocated to a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services under section 5119.23 of the Revised Code if either of the following circumstances apply: (1) The board fails to comply with Chapter 340. or 5119. of the Revised Code or rules of the department of behavioral health; (2) The board denies...

...ices to maintain the confidentiality of health and medical records, the right as a person detained for medical purposes to receive adequate and appropriate treatment, and the right to vote.

... attorney or the director of behavioral health, a court of competent jurisdiction may order the disclosure of records or information referred to in division (B) of this section if the court has reason to believe that a federally assisted program for the treatment of substance use disorders is being operated or used in a manner contrary to law. The use of any information or record so disclosed shall be limited to the ...

...n and pertaining to the person's mental health condition, assessment, provision of care, treatment, or recovery supports, or payment for assessment, care, treatment, or recovery supports that are maintained in connection with any services certified by the department of behavioral health, any recovery supports paid for with funds administered by the department or a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health s...

...The department of behavioral health, in conjunction with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health boards, shall develop a coordinated system for tracking and monitoring persons found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed pursuant to section 2945.40 of the Revised Code who have been granted a conditional release and persons found incompetent to stand trial and ...

...The department of behavioral health promptly shall develop and maintain a program that continually provides the courts of this state with relevant information pertaining to addiction services and programs available both within their jurisdictions and statewide in order to facilitate the ability of the courts to utilize treatment and rehabilitation alternatives in addition to or in lieu of imposing sentences of impris...

...control of the department of behavioral health in accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter 125. of the Revised Code and such rules as the department of administrative services adopts. All bids shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place specified in the advertisement. Preference shall be given to bidders in localities wherein the institution is located, if the price is fair ...