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...ive individuals who shall represent the public; (B) The directors of the departments of health, mental health and drug addiction services, developmental disabilities, aging, and public safety; the medicaid director; the administrator of workers' compensation; the director of education and workforce; and the executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency. Any of the officials specified...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to division (C) of this section, the board of trustees of a state university, the board of trustees of the northeast Ohio medical university, the board of trustees of a state community college, and the board of trustees of a technical college or community college district operating a technical or a...

...As used in this section: (A) "Board of trustees" means the board of trustees of a state university, university housing commission, state medical university, community college district, university branch district, technical college district, or state community college. (B) "Political subdivision" means a municipal corporation, county, or township. (C) "Institution" means all real property owned or leased by a...

...As used in Chapter 3377. of the Revised Code: (A) "Educational institution" or "institution" means an educational institution organized not for profit and holding an effective certificate of authorization issued under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code. It does not include any institution created by or in accordance with Title XXXIII of the Revised Code nor any institution whose principal educational activity is pr...

...(A) As used in sections 339.01 to 339.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Hospital facilities" has the meaning given in section 140.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "County hospital" includes all of the county hospital's branches and hospital facilities, wherever located. (3) "Outpatient health facility" means a facility where medical care and preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or palliative items or service...

...The board of county hospital trustees shall have complete charge of the selection and purchase or lease of a site or sites for a county hospital, taking title or leasehold interest to such site or sites in the name of the county, the selection of plans and specifications, the determination and erection of all necessary buildings on such site or sites, and of the selection and installation of all necessary and proper ...

...d of county commissioners. (E) For the public purpose of improving the health, safety, and general welfare of the community, the board of county hospital trustees may donate to a nonprofit entity any of the following: (1) Moneys and other financial assets determined not to be necessary to meet current demands on the hospital; (2) Surplus hospital property, including supplies, equipment, office facilities, and othe...

...(A) The sheriff may establish a commissary for the jail. The commissary may be established either in-house or by another arrangement. If a commissary is established, all persons incarcerated in the jail shall receive commissary privileges. A person's purchases from the commissary shall be deducted from the person's account record in the jail's business office. The commissary shall provide for the distribution to indi...

...signee, and one member representing the public to be appointed by the other members of the board. The agreement forming the regional authority shall be adopted in the same manner as the initial proposal to form the regional authority. Not later than thirty days after the adoption of the agreement, the board of trustees appointed under it shall mail a copy of the agreement to the director of environmental protection...

...e child or youth by parents, guardians, public health nurses, or any other interested person. The department of health may designate other agencies to refer applicants to the department of health. (B) In accordance with the procedures established in rules adopted under division (A)(4) of section 3701.021 of the Revised Code, the department of health shall authorize a provider or providers to provide to any Ohio re...

...(A) As used in this section, "health care provider" means any person or government entity that provides health care services to individuals. "Health care provider" includes, but is not limited to, hospitals, medical clinics and offices, special care facilities, medical laboratories, physicians, pharmacists, dentists, physician assistants, registered and licensed practical nurses, laboratory technicians, emerge...

...survival form is confidential and not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (C) A copy of the child survival form completed under this section shall be made part of the medical record maintained for the woman by the facility in which the abortion was performed or attempted. (D) Each facility in which an abortion was performed or attempted and in which a child was born alive after that event sh...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Ambulatory surgical facility" means a facility in which surgical services are provided to patients who do not require hospitalization for inpatient care, the duration of services for any patient does not extend beyond twenty-four hours after the patient's admission, and to which any of the following apply: (a) The surgical services are provided in a building that is separate from...

...(A)(1) The director of health may grant a variance from the written transfer agreement requirement of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code if the ambulatory surgical facility submits to the director a complete variance application, prescribed by the director, and the director determines after reviewing the application that the facility is capable of achieving the purpose of a written transfer agreement in the absence...

...(A) The local registrar of vital statistics shall number consecutively each fetal death and death certificate printed on paper that the local registrar receives from the electronic death registration system (EDRS) maintained by the department of health. The number assigned to each certificate shall be the one provided by EDRS. Such local registrar shall sign the local registrar's name in attest to the date of filing ...

...(A) The director of health, by rule, shall prescribe the form of records and certificates required by this chapter. Records and certificates shall include the items and information prescribed by the director, including the items recommended by the national center for health statistics of the United States department of health and human services, subject to approval of and modification by the director. (B) All birth ...

...(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Purposely make any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or in an application or amendment of it, or purposely supply false information with the intent that that information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment of it; (2) Without lawful authority and with intent to deceive, co...

...rse practitioner and who specializes in public health; a licensed dentist; a licensed veterinarian; a licensed podiatrist; a licensed chiropractor; or the holder of a master's degree in public health or an equivalent master's degree in a related health field as determined by the members of the board of health in a general health district. Notice of such appointment shall be filed with the director of health. The co...

...Any person or public agency licensed under section 3712.04 of the Revised Code to provide a hospice care program shall: (A) Provide a planned and continuous hospice care program, the medical components of which shall be under the direction of a physician; (B) Ensure that care is available twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week; (C) Establish an interdisciplinary plan of care for each hospice patient and ...

...(A)(1) As used in this section: (a) "Another adult authorized to consent to the minor's medical treatment" means an adult to whom a minor's parent or guardian has given written authorization to consent to the minor's medical treatment. (b) "Emergency facility" means a hospital emergency department or any other facility that provides emergency care. (c) "Medical emergency" means a situation that in a prescriber'...

...For each resident of a home, all of the following apply with respect to a proposed transfer or discharge from the home: (A)(1) The administrator of a home shall notify a resident in writing, and the resident's sponsor in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, in advance of any proposed transfer or discharge from the home. The administrator shall send a copy of the notice to the state department of he...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Compassionate caregiver" means an individual who 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 f...

...eation of a nuisance or a hazard to the public health or safety or the environment. Applications for variances shall contain such detail plans, specifications, and information regarding objectives, procedures, controls, and other pertinent data as the director may require. The director shall grant a variance only if the applicant demonstrates to the director's satisfaction that construction and operation of the solid...

...nd data. (3) The director may hold a public hearing on an application submitted under division (F) of this section for a variance at a location in the county in which the operations that are the subject of the application for a variance or renewal of variance are conducted. Not less than twenty days before the hearing, the director shall provide to the applicant notice of the hearing by certified mail or by anothe...

...assessed under that division and to the public. (2) For the purposes of division (E)(1) of this section: (a) The consumer price index for any year is the average of the consumer price index for all urban consumers published by the United States department of labor as of the close of the twelve-month period ending on the thirty-first day of August of that year. (b) If the 1989 consumer price index is revised,...