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...es, except when such services are supplemental under division (B) of this section; (b) Inpatient hospital services; (c) Outpatient medical services; (d) Emergency health services; (e) Urgent care services; (f) Diagnostic laboratory services and diagnostic and therapeutic radiologic services; (g) Diagnostic and treatment services, other than prescription drug services, for biologically based mental illness...

...r. (B) "Capacity to consent to mental health treatment decisions" means the functional ability to understand information about the risks of, benefits of, and alternatives to the proposed mental health treatment, to rationally use that information, to appreciate how that information applies to the declarant, and to express a choice about the proposed treatment. (C) "Declarant" means an adult who has executed a dec...

... The action is brought against a mental health professional. (2) The assault or battery claim asserted in the action is that, while the plaintiff was a mental health client or patient of the mental health professional, the mental health professional engaged in sexual conduct with, had sexual contact with, or caused one or more other persons to have sexual contact with the plaintiff. (3) At the time of the sexual co...

....301 of the Revised Code. (b) "Mental health client or patient" means an individual who is receiving mental health services from a mental health professional or organization. (c) "Mental health organization" means an organization that engages one or more mental health professionals to provide mental health services to one or more mental health clients or patients. (d) "Mental health professional" means an indiv...

...ult or battery brought against a mental health professional that asserts as a claim that, while the plaintiff was a mental health client or patient of the mental health professional, the mental health professional engaged in sexual conduct with, had sexual contact with, or caused one or more other persons to have sexual contact with the plaintiff, the consent of the plaintiff to the sexual conduct or sexual contact i...

...ach alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district, there shall be appointed a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. As provided in this section, the board shall consist of eighteen members, fifteen members, fourteen members, twelve members, or nine members. In a single-county district, the size of the board shall be determined by the board of county commissioners representing ...

... an alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district where the board of county commissioners has established an alcohol and drug addiction services board, the community mental health board established under former section 340.02 of the Revised Code shall serve as the entity responsible for providing mental health services in the county. A community mental health board has all the powers, duties, and obliga...

... rules issued by the director of mental health and addiction services after consultation with relevant constituencies as required by division (A)(10) of section 5119.21 of the Revised Code, each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall: (1) Serve as the community addiction and mental health planning agency for the county or counties under its jurisdiction, and in so doing it shall: (a)...

...rvision of one or more certified mental health assistants licensed under this chapter, a physician shall enter into a supervision agreement with each certified mental health assistant who will be supervised. A supervision agreement may apply to one or more certified mental health assistants, but, except as provided in division (B)(5) of this section, may apply to not more than one physician. The supervision agreement...

...rvising physician of a certified mental health assistant exercises supervision, control, and direction of the certified mental health assistant. A certified mental health assistant may practice in any setting within which the supervising physician has supervision, control, and direction of the certified mental health assistant. In supervising a certified mental health assistant, all of the following apply: (1)(a)...

...cense to practice as a certified mental health assistant to an individual found by the board to have committed fraud, misrepresentation, or deception in applying for or securing the license. (B) The board, by an affirmative vote of not fewer than six members, shall, except as provided in division (C) of this section, and to the extent permitted by law, limit, revoke, or suspend an individual's license to practice a...

...alid license to practice as a certified mental health assistant, the chief administrator or executive officer of the facility shall report to the state medical board the name of the individual, the action taken by the facility, and a summary of the underlying facts leading to the action taken. On request, the board shall be provided certified copies of the patient records that were the basis for the facility's action...

...hol and drug addiction services; (b) Mental health services; (c) The types of recovery supports that are specified in rules adopted under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code as requiring certification under that section. (6) "Community addiction services provider" means an agency, association, corporation or other legal entity, individual, or program that provides one or more of the following: (a) Alcohol...

...(A) The department of mental health and addiction services 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 director of mental health and addiction services, 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 Ch...

...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 mental health and addiction services, any recovery supports paid for with funds administered by the department or a board of alcohol, drug addictio...

... of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. (3) "Adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older, other than a person described in division (A)(4) of this section who is between eighteen and twenty-one years of age. (4) "Child" means a person who is under eighteen years of age or a person with a mental disability who is under twenty-one years of age. (5) "Community mental health serv...

...n application to the director of mental health and addiction services. On receipt of the application, the director shall determine whether the standards established by divisions (B) and (C) of this section and any rules adopted under this section are satisfied or continue to be satisfied by the applicant. As part of the determination the director may conduct an on-site review of the applicant. In doing so, the direct...

...(A) The director of mental health and addiction services may enter into agreements with any person, political subdivision, or state agency for the sale or lease of land or facilities under the jurisdiction of the director of mental health and addiction services in the following manner: (1) The director of mental health and addiction services shall designate lands and facilities that are not needed by the department...

...and managed by the department of mental health and addiction services to provide psychiatric hospitalization services in accordance with the requirements of this section pursuant to an agreement between the directors of rehabilitation and correction and mental health and addiction services or, is licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code as a ps...

... services in a forensic or other mental health unit of a correctional facility, provided that the thirty-six-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization or incarceration of the person that occurred within the thirty-six-month period. (II) Within the forty-eight months prior to the filing of an affidavit seeking court-ordered treatment of the person under section 5122.111 of the Revised Code,...

... of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, and community mental health services providers may release necessary medical information to insurers and other third-party payers, including government entities responsible for processing and authorizing payment, to obtain payment for goods and services furnished to the patient; (4) Pursuant to a court order signed by a judge; (5) That a patient shall be gran...

... this section: (1) "Community mental health services provider or facility" means a community mental health services provider or facility that has its community mental health services certified by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code or by the department of children and youth under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code. (2) "Mental health professional" me...

...tate treasury. The department of mental health and addiction services shall distribute the moneys in that fund to the county indigent drivers alcohol treatment funds, the county juvenile indigent drivers alcohol treatment funds, and the municipal indigent drivers alcohol treatment funds that are required to be established by counties and municipal corporations pursuant to division (H) of this section to be used only ...

...entalities, which provides payment for health care benefits for any of its employees resident in this state, which benefits are not provided by contract with an insurer qualified to provide sickness and accident insurance, or a health insuring corporation, shall include the following benefits in its plan of health care benefits commencing on or after January 1, 1979: (A) If such plan of health care benefits p...