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...sion (A)(2) of this section, "long-term care facility" includes any residential facility that provides personal care services for more than twenty-four hours for one or more unrelated adults, including all of the following: (a) A "nursing home," "residential care facility," or "home for the aging," as those terms are defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code; (b) A facility authorized to provide extended care ...

...n for employment as the state long-term care ombudsman or the head of a regional long-term care ombudsman program. "Applicant" does not include a person seeking to provide ombudsman services to residents and recipients as a volunteer without receiving or expecting to receive any form of remuneration other than reimbursement for actual expenses. (2) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.57...

...tion: (1) "Community-based long-term care services" means community-based long-term care services, as defined in section 173.14 of the Revised Code, that are provided under a program the department of aging administers. (2) "Community-based long-term care services certificate" means a certificate issued under section 173.391 of the Revised Code. (3) "Community-based long-term care services contract or grant"...

...t of the PACE program. (4) "Long-term care consultation" or "consultation" means the consultation service made available by the department of aging or a program administrator through the long-term care consultation program established pursuant to this section. (5) "Nursing facility" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (6) "PACE program" means the component of the medicaid program the...

...ry service areas to which the long-term care facility is, or will be, providing long-term care services. (E) "Primary service area" means the geographic region, usually comprised of the Ohio zip code in which the long-term care facility is located and contiguous zip codes, from which approximately seventy-five to eighty per cent of the facility's residents currently originate or are expected to originate. (F) "Se...

...xisting beds from an existing long-term care facility in a county with excess beds to a long-term care facility in a county in which there are fewer long-term care beds than the county's bed need: (1) Approval of beds in a new long-term care facility or an increase of beds in an existing long-term care facility if the beds are proposed to be licensed as nursing home beds under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code; ...

...(1) Each nurse aide used by a long-term care facility on a full-time, temporary, per diem, or other basis on July 1, 1989, shall be provided by the facility a competency evaluation program approved by the director of health under division (A) of section 3721.31 of the Revised Code or conducted by the director under division (C) of that section. Each long-term care facility using a nurse aide on July 1, 1989, shall pr...

... of the Revised Code: (A) "Long-term care insurance" means any insurance policy or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than one year for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for one or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in...

...d disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies, terms of renewability, initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility, nonduplication of coverage provisions, coverage of dependents, preexisting conditions, termination of coverage, continuation or conversion, probationary periods, limitations, exceptions, reductions, elimination periods, requirements for replacement, recurrent conditions, and ...

...(A) The office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, through the state long-term care ombudsman and the regional long-term care ombudsman programs, shall receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints made by residents, recipients, sponsors, long-term care providers, or any person acting on behalf of a resident or recipient, relating to either of the following: (1) The health, safety, welfare, or c...

...ve of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program shall have access to any records, including medical records, of a resident or a recipient that are reasonably necessary for investigation of a complaint. Consent may be given in any of the following ways: (1) In writing by the resident or recipient; (2) Orally by the resident or recipient, witnessed in writing at the time it is given by one other person...

...urance, disability income and long-term care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under the Compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review of insurance products covered under the Compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more Compacting States; 4. To gi...

...provides in-person visitation to a long-term care facility resident in compassionate care situations in accordance with this section. (2) "Long-term care facility" means a home, as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code. "Long-term care facility" does not include any federal facility operated in this state, including a facility operated by the United States department of veterans affairs. (3) "Transmiss...

...l sell, solicit, or negotiate long-term care insurance without first completing an initial eight-hour partnership program training course as described in division (B) of this section. (2)(a) Any agent that sells, solicits, or negotiates any long-term care insurance shall complete at least four hours of continuing education in every license renewal period beginning with the first license renewal period following th...

...e of need for the addition of long-term care beds to an existing long-term care facility or for the development of a new long-term care facility if any of the following apply: (a) The existing long-term care facility in which the beds are being placed has one or more waivers for life safety code deficiencies, one or more state fire code violations, or one or more state building code violations, and the project ident...

...The state long-term care ombudsman program established by the department of aging pursuant to division (J) of section 173.01 of the Revised Code shall be known as "the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program." It shall consist of the state long-term care ombudsman, the ombudsman's staff, and regional long-term care ombudsman programs. In establishing and operating the office, the department shall conside...

...(A) The state long-term care ombudsman shall do all of the following: (1) Appoint a staff and direct and administer the work of the staff; (2) Oversee the performance and operation of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, including the operation of regional long-term care ombudsman programs; (3) Establish and maintain a statewide uniform reporting system to collect and analyze information re...

...ing may charge annual fees to long-term care facilities for the publication of the Ohio long-term care consumer guide, as well as late penalties if applicable. The department may contract with any person or government entity to collect the fees on its behalf. All fees collected under this section shall be deposited in accordance with division (B) of this section. (2) Except as provided in division (A)(3) of this sec...

...ent, or construction of a new long-term care facility; (2) Replacement of an existing long-term care facility; (3) Renovation of or addition to a long-term care facility that involves a capital expenditure of four million dollars or more, not including expenditures for equipment, staffing, or operational costs; (4) An increase in long-term care bed capacity; (5) A relocation of long-term care beds from on...

..., no insurer shall rescind a long-term care insurance policy or certificate or deny an otherwise valid claim based upon a misrepresentation by the applicant without adhering to one of the following: (1) For a policy or certificate that has been in force for less than six months, an insurer may rescind a long-term care insurance policy or certificate or deny an otherwise valid long-term care insurance claim if...

...(A) The office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, through the state long-term care ombudsman and the regional long-term care ombudsman programs, shall require each representative of the office to complete training and certification in accordance with this section and to meet any continuing education requirements that may be established in rules adopted under division (B) of this section. (B) The depart...

... for temporary admission for short-term care. The application may be made on behalf of a minor by a parent or guardian, and on behalf of an adult adjudicated mentally incompetent by a guardian. (B) For purposes of this section, short-term care shall be defined to mean appropriate services provided to a person with an intellectual disability for no more than fourteen consecutive days and for no more than forty-two da...

...s used in this section: (1) "Long-term care insurance" has the same meaning as in section 3923.41 of the Revised Code. (2) "Retirement systems" means the public employees retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, the state teachers retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the state highway patrol retirement system. (B) The public employees retirement board may establish a long...

... the purchase of a policy of long-term care insurance covering all state employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management, including elected state officials. Any policy purchased under this division shall be negotiated and entered into in accordance with the competitive selection procedures specified in Chapter 125. of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "long-term car...

...velop and publish a guide to long-term care facilities for use by individuals considering long-term care facility admission and their families, friends, and advisors. The guide, which shall be titled the Ohio long-term care consumer guide, may be published in printed form or in electronic form for distribution over the internet. The guide may be developed as a continuation or modification of the guide publishe...