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... Code to provide a pediatric transition care program: (A) The program shall ensure that the medical care components of the program are under the direction of a physician. (B) When a program arranges for a home health agency to furnish a component or components of the program to a pediatric transition care patient, the care shall be provided by a home health agency pursuant to a written contract that includes both...

...s used in this section, "terminal care facility for the homeless" means a facility that provides accommodations to homeless individuals who are terminally ill. (B) A person or public agency licensed under this chapter to provide a hospice care program may enter into an agreement with a terminal care facility for the homeless under which hospice care program services may be provided to individuals residing at t...

...ense to conduct a new inpatient hospice care program if the program is to be conducted by a nursing home licensed under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code.

...ve; (3) The administrator of any other facility, agency, or program that provides direct care to older adults or pediatric respite care patients that is owned or operated by the same entity that owns or operates the hospice care program or pediatric respite care program; (4) A court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with a denial of employment of the applicant or deali...

... interpreted as meaning that palliative care may be provided only by or as a component of a hospice care program or pediatric respite care program.

...(A) Any person who violates division (A) of section 3712.05 or division (A) of section 3712.051 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree on a first offense; on each subsequent offense the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Any person who violates division (D) of section 3712.062 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...condition as a means of analyzing and determining the nursing care required and the need for further medical diagnosis and treatment; (c) Special procedures contributing to rehabilitation; (d) Administration of medication by any method ordered by a physician, such as hypodermically, rectally, or orally, including observation of the patient after receipt of the medication; (e) Carrying out other treatments pr...

... skilled nursing care on a part-time, intermittent basis for not more than a total of one hundred twenty days in a twelve-month period; (3) Provide skilled nursing care for more than one hundred twenty days in a twelve-month period to a resident when the requirements of division (D) of this section are met. A residential care facility may not admit or retain an individual requiring skilled nursing care that is no...

...A residential care facility may enter into a risk agreement with a resident or the resident's sponsor. Under a risk agreement, the resident or sponsor and the facility agree to share responsibility for making and implementing decisions affecting the scope and quantity of services provided by the facility to the resident. The facility also agrees to identify the risks inherent in a decision made by a resident or spons...

...4 of the Revised Code if the director determines that the part or unit to be licensed as a nursing home can be maintained separate and discrete from the part or unit to be licensed as a residential facility. (D) In determining the number of residents in a home for the purpose of licensing, the director shall consider all the individuals for whom the home provides accommodations as one group unless one of the follo...

...ict home licensed as a residential care facility shall have available in the home for review by prospective patients and residents, their guardians, or other persons assisting in their placement, each inspection report completed pursuant to section 3721.02 of the Revised Code and each statement of deficiencies and plan of correction completed and made available to the public under Titles XVIII and XIX of the "Social ...

... shall provide the facility. A final determination that any deficiency citation is unjustified shall be reflected clearly in all records relating to the survey. The director need not adopt as rules any of the regulations, guidelines, or procedures issued under Title XVIII and Title XIX by the United States secretary of health and human services.

...sed Code to relocate any of the nursing facility beds or the license from the owner's real estate in or on which the beds are located unless the lessee or person in possession of the facility obtains the voluntary written consent of the owner or sublessor of the real estate to such relocation and meets all other requirements for the relocation of beds as specified in this chapter and the rules adopted under it.

...ities that provide the highest quality care to residents who are medicaid recipients. The program may be funded with public funds appropriated by the general assembly for the purpose of the program or any funds appropriated for nursing home licensure.

...ience, who will be employed to properly care for the type and number of nursing home residents. (B) The director shall issue to the entering operator a notice of intent to grant a change of operator license upon a determination that all requirements of this section have been met, except for submission of the final document evidencing completion of the transaction. (C) The director may conduct a survey of the nur...

...that the office of the state long-term care ombudsman has investigated and found to be valid and refers to the department of health. This requirement does not supersede federal requirements for survey agency complaint investigations.

...umane, kind, and adequate treatment and care; (5) Has had a long-standing pattern of violations of this chapter or the rules adopted under it that has caused physical, emotional, mental, or psychosocial harm to one or more residents. Upon the issuance of any order of revocation, the person whose license is revoked, or the county home or district home that has its license revoked, may appeal in accordance with Chapt...

...(A) The director of health may investigate any complaint the director receives concerning a home. (1) Except as required by court order, as necessary for the administration or enforcement of any statute relating to homes, or as provided in division (C) of this section, the director and any employee of the department of health shall not release any of the following information without the permission of the individual...

... fire safety in homes as the marshal determines necessary. The rules adopted by the marshal shall be in addition to those fire safety rules that the board of building standards and the director of health are empowered to adopt. In the event of a dispute between the marshal and another officer having responsibilities under sections 3721.01 to 3721.09 of the Revised Code with respect to the interpretation or appl...

..., or certified nurse practitioner has determined that vaccination of the resident is medically inappropriate. The vaccine shall be of a form approved by the advisory committee for that calendar year. A resident may refuse vaccination. (2) Each home shall obtain the influenza vaccine information sheet described in section 3701.138 of the Revised Code and post the sheet in a conspicuous location that is accessible to...

...y not deny a nursing home license to a facility seeking a license under this chapter as a nursing home on the grounds that the facility does not satisfy a requirement established in rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code regarding the toilet rooms and dining and recreational areas of nursing homes if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The facility seeks a license under this chapte...

...No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation shall: (A) Operate a home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code without obtaining a license from the director of health; (B) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (C) Operate a home after the license for such has been revoked by the director of health; (D) Interfere with the ins...

...No county home or district home licensed under section 3721.07 of the Revised Code shall do any of the following: (A) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (B) Continue operation after its license has been revoked by the director of health; (C) Fail to be open for an inspection, or interfere with an inspection, by a state or local official performi...

...No public official or employee shall place any person in, or recommend that any person be placed in, or directly or indirectly cause any person to be placed in any home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code which is being operated without a license from the director of health or from a political subdivision certified pursuant to section 3721.09 of the Revised Code.

...r which a license as a residential care facility is sought shall apply for a license to the director of health. The director shall issue a license for the home, if after investigation of the applicant and, if required by section 3721.02 of the Revised Code, inspection of the home, the following requirements or conditions are satisfied or complied with: (A) The applicant has not been convicted of a felony or a ...