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...The director of health shall evaluate and may investigate evidence that appears to demonstrate that any person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. If the director elects to conduct an investigation, the director shall mail to the alleged violator by certified mail, return receipt requested, a notice that an investigation is underway. When conducting an investigation under this section, the direc...

...When the director of health determines that a person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code, the director shall send a notice to the person by certified mail, return receipt requested, specifying the activity constituting the violation and the penalties imposed under section 3702.54 of the Revised Code.

...this section apply when the director of health determines that a person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. (A) The director shall impose a civil penalty on the person in an amount equal to the greatest of the following: (1) Three thousand dollars; (2) Five per cent of the operating cost of the activity that constitutes the violation during the period of time it was conducted in violation of se...

....60 of the Revised Code the director of health's determination that a violation has occurred, not later than sixty days after the issuance of an order upholding the director's determination that is not subject to further appeal. The civil penalties shall be paid to the director. The director shall deposit them into the certificate of need fund created by section 3702.52 of the Revised Code.

... 3712.04 of the Revised Code; a nursing home, residential care facility, or home for the aging under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code; or any beds within any of those facilities that are involved in the activity; (B) A political subdivision certified under section 3721.09 of the Revised Code may refuse to license, or may revoke a license or reduce bed capacity previously granted to, a nursing home, residential ...

...No third-party payer or other person is required to pay, and no person shall seek or accept payment or reimbursement for, any service rendered or costs incurred in conducting an activity during the period of time in which the activity was conducted in violation of section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. Each person that accepts any amount in violation of this division shall refund that amount on request of the per...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules establishing procedures and criteria for reviews of applications for certificates of need and issuance, denial, or withdrawal of certificates. (1) In adopting rules that establish criteria for reviews of applications of certificates of need, the director shall consider the availability of and need for long-term care beds to provide care and treatment to persons diagnose...

... the beds are being placed or a nursing home owned or operated by the applicant or a principal participant, unless in the case of such a nursing home the notice was issued solely because the nursing home had already closed or ceased operations. (c) During the period that precedes the filing of the application and is encompassed by the three most recent standard surveys of the existing long-term care facility in whic...

... are proposed to be licensed as nursing home beds under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code; (2) Approval of beds in a new county home or new county nursing home, or an increase of beds in an existing county home or existing county nursing home if the beds are proposed to be certified as skilled nursing facility beds under the medicare program, Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 286 (1965), 42 U.S.C. ...

...on (C) of this section, the director of health shall accept, for review under section 3702.52 of the Revised Code, certificate of need applications for an increase in beds in an existing long-term care facility if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The proposed increase is attributable solely to a relocation of long-term care beds from an existing long-term care facility to another existing long-term care ...

...e of need may appeal to the director of health a decision issued by the director to grant or deny a certificate of need application. The person that requested a reviewability ruling may appeal to the director with respect to the resulting ruling issued by the director. The appeal by the applicant or person shall be made in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, and the director shall provide an adjudica...

...fied. At the request of the director of health, the attorney general shall commence any necessary proceedings. The court has jurisdiction to grant and, on a showing of a violation, shall grant appropriate injunctive relief.

...Sections 3702.51 to 3702.61 of the Revised Code do not apply to any part of a long-term care facility's campus that is certified as an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, as defined in section 5124.01 of the Revised Code.

...ans professional comprehensive personal health services, which may include health education and disease prevention, treatment of uncomplicated health problems, diagnosis of chronic health problems, overall management of health care services for an individual or a family, and the services of a psychiatrist. "Primary care service" also includes providing the initial contact for health care services, making referrals fo...

...m shall be submitted to the director of health on a form that the director shall prescribe. The information required to be submitted with an application includes the following: (1) The applicant's name, permanent address or address at which the applicant is currently residing if different from the permanent address, and telephone number; (2) The applicant's primary care specialty or specialties; (3) The medical sc...

...loan repayment program, the director of health shall approve an applicant for participation in the program if the director finds that, in accordance with the priorities established under section 3702.77 of the Revised Code, the applicant is eligible for participation in the program and the applicant's primary care specialty is needed in a health resource shortage area. Upon approval, the director shall notify a...

...of the Revised Code and the director of health may enter into a contract for the physician's participation in the physician loan repayment program. The physician's employer or other funding source may also be a party to the contract. (B) The contract shall include all of the following obligations: (1) The primary care physician agrees to provide primary care services in the health resource shortage area identified ...

...m. Under the program, the department of health, by means of a contract provision under division (B)(3) of section 3702.74 of the Revised Code, may agree to repay all or part of the principal and interest of a government or other educational loan taken by a primary care physician for the following expenses, so long as the expenses were incurred while the physician was enrolled in, for up to a maximum of four yea...

...(A) The director of health shall designate, as health resource shortage areas, areas in this state that experience special health problems and physician practice patterns that limit access to medical care. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the designations shall be made by rule. The designations may apply to a geographic area, one or more facilities within a particular area, or a population group wi...

...The director of health, by rule, shall establish priorities among health resource shortage areas for use in recruiting primary care physicians to sites within particular areas under the physician loan repayment program. In establishing priorities, the director shall consider the ratio of primary care physicians to the population in the health resource shortage area, the distance to primary care physicians outside the...

...The director of health may accept gifts of money from any source for the implementation and administration of sections 3702.72 to 3702.77 of the Revised Code. The director shall pay all gifts accepted under this section into the state treasury, to the credit of the health resource shortage area fund, which is hereby created, and all damages collected under division (B)(4) of section 3702.74 of the Revised C...

...The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer sections 3702.71 to 3702.78 of the Revised Code.

...l requirement that they return to their home countries for a minimum of two years after completing the graduate medical education or training for which they were admitted to the United States. The department shall administer the program in accordance with the "Immigration and Nationality Act" and the regulations adopted under it. For each application accepted for review under this section, the department shall charg...

...l be administered by the department of health in cooperation with the dentist loan repayment advisory board. The program shall provide loan repayment on behalf of individuals who agree to provide dental services in areas designated as dental health resource shortage areas by the director of health pursuant to section 3702.87 of the Revised Code. Under the program, the department of health, by means of ...

...The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer sections 3702.85 to 3702.95 of the Revised Code. In preparing rules, the director shall consult with the dentist loan repayment advisory board.