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...Each year, the director of health shall make a report to the governor, which shall include so much of the proceedings of the department of health, information concerning vital statistics and diseases, instructions on the subject of hygiene for dissemination among the people and suggestions as to legislation as the director deems proper. The director shall include in the director's annual report a full statement o...

...The director of health may purchase, store, and distribute antitoxins, serums, vaccines, immunizing agents, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies that the director deems advisable in the interest of preparing for or responding to a public health emergency. The discretion granted to the director by this section does not relieve the director of the duty to act under section 3701.161 of the Re...

...The director of health shall make necessary arrangements for the production and distribution of diphtheria antitoxin. Such antitoxin shall in all respects be equal in purity and potency to the standard of requirements of the United States public health service for antitoxin for interstate commerce. Diphtheria antitoxin shall be distributed in accordance with rules the director adopts pursuant to Chapter 119. of...

...Any licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife if authorized as described in section 4723.438 of the Revised Code, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner practicing in this state, or the superintendent of any state or county institution, may receive without charge the quantities of antitoxin as the physician, nurse, or superintendent requires for the treatment or prevention of diphtheria in indig...

...The director of health shall establish techniques and procedures as appropriate for use by the division of parks and watercraft in the department of natural resources when taking samples and conducting tests under section 1546.08 of the Revised Code of the waters of this state that are adjacent to public swimming beaches as defined in that section. The director of health, in consultation with and subject to the appro...

...and treatment center by the director of health under section 3701.20 of the Revised Code. (B) "Harm" means injury, death, or loss to person or property. (C) "Tort action" means a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property. "Tort action" includes a product liability claim that is subject to sections 2307.71 to 2307.80 of the Revised Code, but does not include a civil action for a breac...

...dal, suicidal, occupational, or environmental poisoning; (2) Educate the public and health care professionals concerning the prevention and treatment of exposure to poison; (3) Organize poison prevention and treatment activities on a regional basis to avoid duplication and waste. (B) To be eligible for designation as a poison prevention and treatment center and to retain the designation, a center must maintai...

...the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code under which a poison prevention and treatment center or other health-related entity is required to report events that may be caused by bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or established or novel infectious agents or biological or chemical toxins posing a risk of human fatality or disabili...

...dited to the fund. (C) The director of health shall use the money in the save our sight fund as follows: (1) To provide support to 501(c) organizations that offer vision services in all counties of the state and have demonstrated experience in the delivery of vision services to do one or more of the following: (a) Implement a voluntary children's vision screening training and certification program for volunte...

...The department of health shall maintain a public health laboratory for the following: (A) Examination of public water supplies and the effluent of sewage purification works; (B) Diagnosis of, screening for, or confirmation of diseases or pathogens as it deems necessary; (C) Performance of biological, chemical, or radiological analyses or examinations as it deems necessary; (D) Analysis of patient specimens and ...

...(A) The director of health shall have charge of the public health laboratory authorized by section 3701.22 of the Revised Code. The director may employ an assistant for the laboratory who shall be a person skilled in chemistry and bacteriology, and receive compensation as the director determines. All expenses of the laboratory shall be paid from appropriations made for the department of health. (B) The direct...

...(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...

...nts and shall verify to the director of health that the laboratory complies with reporting and confidentiality requirements. The director shall establish procedures by which an entity may verify the laboratory's compliance.

... the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code under which a pharmacy or pharmacist is required to report significant changes in medication usage that may be caused by bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or established or novel infectious agents or biological toxins posing a risk of human fatality or disability. Rules adopted under th...

...at has been approved by the director of health under division (B) of section 3701.241 of the Revised Code. (5) "Health care facility" has the same meaning as in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code. (6) "Director" means the director of health or any employee of the department of health acting on the director's behalf. (7) "Physician" means a person authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice m...

...(A) The director of health shall develop and administer the following: (1) A surveillance system to determine the number of cases of AIDS and the HIV infection rate in various population groups; (2) Counseling and testing programs for groups determined by the director to be at risk of HIV infection, including procedures for both confidential and anonymous tests, counseling training programs for health care pr...

...n an individual by or on the order of a health care provider if the individual or the individual's parent or guardian has given general consent to the provider for medical or other health care treatment and if the health care provider or an authorized representative of the health care provider has notified the individual that the HIV test is planned. The notification may be verbal or written, in person or electronic,...

...res the information while providing any health care service or while in the employ of a health care facility or health care provider shall disclose or compel another to disclose any of the following: (1) The identity of any individual on whom an HIV test is performed; (2) The results of an HIV test in a form that identifies the individual tested; (3) The identity of any individual diagnosed as having AIDS or an...

...orting requirement of the department of health or any federal agency. (H) No person with knowledge that an individual other than himself has or may have AIDS, and AIDS-related condition, or a positive HIV test shall be held liable for failing to disclose that information to any person unless disclosure is expressly required by law.

...IDS-related condition to an appropriate health care provider or facility, if the referral is based on reasonable professional judgment and not solely on grounds of the refusal of the individual to consent to an HIV test or to disclose the result of an HIV test.

...Any human body part donated for transplantation, including an organ, tissue, eye, bone, artery, or other part, and any body fluid donated for transfusion or injection into another person, including blood, plasma, a blood product, semen, or other fluid, shall be given an HIV test before being transplanted, transfused, or injected to determine that the part or fluid is not infected with the HIV virus unless, in an emer...

...s by specifying the persons and governmental entities that may have access to the results and by limiting further disclosure. The court shall require that the defendant be given test results and, if the defendant's test results are HIV-positive, that post-test counseling be provided the defendant in accordance with division (C) of section 3701.242 of the Revised Code. The court may order the plaintiff to...

...ied in rules adopted by the director of health pursuant to division (F) of this section. (2) "Patient" means either of the following: (a) A person, whether alive or dead, who has been treated, or handled, or transported for medical care by an emergency medical services worker; (b) A deceased person whose body is handled by a funeral services worker. (3) "Significant exposure" means: (a) A percutaneous or muc...

...(A) As used in this section, "employer" and "employee" have the same meanings as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The employer of a person with HIV infection is immune from liability to any person in a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property on a claim arising out of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from the infected employee to another employee or to any ...

...e date of this section, the director of health shall establish and maintain a Parkinson's disease registry for the collection and monitoring of the incidence of Parkinson's disease in Ohio. (C) The director shall supervise the registry and the collection and dissemination of data included in the registry. The director may enter into contracts, grants, or other agreements as necessary to maintain the registry, incl...

...(A) The department of health may establish, promote, and maintain a lupus education and awareness program with an emphasis on at-risk communities to raise public awareness, educate consumers, and educate and train health professionals, human services providers, and other audiences. (B) The department, in creating and implementing the program, may do all of the following: (1) Provide sufficient staff and appropriate...

...(A)(1) The department of health may conduct a needs assessment to identify all of the following: (a) The level of statewide health professional and public awareness about lupus; (b) The existence of lupus education, awareness, and treatment programs and related technical assistance available in the state and nationwide; (c) The lupus-related educational and support service needs of health care providers in t...

...(A) The department of health may establish a program to award grants to educate and train physicians, health professionals, and other service providers on the most current, accurate scientific and medical information on lupus diagnosis, treatment, and therapeutic decision-making, including medical best practices for detecting and treating the disease in special populations, risks and benefits of medications, an...

...ess program fund. If the department of health establishes the lupus education and awareness program, as authorized under section 3701.77 of the Revised Code, all moneys accepted under division (C) of that section shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund shall be used solely to administer the lupus education and awareness program.

...4) "Department" means the department of health. (5) "Hospital" means any building, structure, institution, or place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, and medical or surgical care for three or more unrelated individuals having illness, disease, injury, or deformity, and regularly making available at least clinical laboratory services, diagnostic x-ray serv...

...f serious risk to the life or physical health of the woman from the continuation of the pregnancy necessitating the immediate performance or inducement of an abortion. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an office or facility at which abortions are performed or induced shall post the notice described in division (C) of this section in a conspicuous location in an area of the office or faci...

...(A) The director of health shall develop a child survival form to be submitted to the department of health in accordance with division (B) of this section each time a child is born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. In developing the form, the director may consult with obstetricians, maternal-fetal specialists, or any other professionals the director considers appropriate. The form shall include areas for...

...The department of health shall cooperate with the director of children and youth when the director promulgates rules pursuant to Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code governing the health and sanitary practices of meal preparation and service for type A family child care homes, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, recommend procedures for inspecting type A family child care homes to determine whether they a...

...xposure to the contagion, and to inform health authorities of the existence of the contagion. (C) No person, having charge of a public conveyance or place of public accommodation, amusement, resort, or trade, and knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that persons using such conveyance or place have been or are being exposed to a dangerous, contagious disease, shall negligently fail to take reasonable measur...

...(A) A brazier, salamander, space heater, room heater, furnace, water heater, or other burner or heater using wood, coal, coke, fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline, natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, or similar fuel, and tending to give off carbon monoxide or other harmful gases: (1) When used in living quarters, or in any enclosed building or space in which persons are usually present, shall be used with a flue or vent so ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the general operations fund. Moneys in the fund shall be used for the purposes specified in sections 3701.04, 3701.344, 3711.16, 3717.45, 3718.06, 3721.02, 3721.022, 3729.07, 3733.43, 3748.04, 3748.05, 3748.07, 3748.12, 3748.13, 3749.04, 3749.07, 3776.08, and 4769.09 of the Revised Code.

...The director of health may assess the operating funds of the department to pay a share of the department's administrative costs. The assessments shall be based on a plan that the director develops. Assessments shall be paid from the funds designated in the plan and credited by means of intrastate transfer voucher to the central support indirect fund which is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall be adm...

...n the state treasury the department of health medicaid fund. All funds the department of health receives for the purpose of paying the expenses the department incurs under the medicaid program shall be deposited into the fund. The department shall use the money in the fund to pay the expenses the department incurs under the medicaid program.

...reated in the state treasury the public health emergency preparedness fund. All federal funds the department of health receives to conduct public health emergency preparedness and response activities shall be credited to the fund. The department shall use money in the fund to pay expenses related to public health emergency preparedness and response activities.

...(A) The department of health shall prepare a plan to reduce tobacco use by Ohioans, with emphasis on reducing the use of tobacco by youth, minority and regional populations, pregnant women, medicaid recipients, and others who may be disproportionately affected by the use of tobacco. The department shall make copies of the plan available to the public. (B) The plan shall do both of the following: (1) Take into acc...

... donations received by the director of health for the purposes of the tobacco use prevention fund. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The treasurer, in consultation with the director, may invest moneys in the fund in accordance with section 135.143 of the Revised Code. Moneys in the fund shall be used to pay outstanding expenses of the former tobacco use prevention and control f...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Automated external defibrillation" has the same meaning as in section 2305.235 of the Revised Code. (2) "Emergency medical services organization" has the same meaning as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A person as defined under section 1.59 of the Revised Code who possesses an automated external defibrillator shall do both of the following: (1) Encourage expected ...

...The department of health shall develop a model emergency action plan for the use of automated external defibrillators by public and chartered nonpublic schools, youth sports organizations, and sports and recreation locations, as that term is defined in section 755.13 of the Revised Code. The model emergency action plan shall require the plan to be practiced at least quarterly. The department shall develop a procedu...

...ment of benefits" means the transfer of health care coverage reimbursement benefits or other rights under an insurance policy, subscription contract, or health care plan by an insured, subscriber, or plan enrollee to a health care provider, hospital, or other health care facility. (C) "Clinical laboratory" means a facility for the biological, microbiological, serological, chemical, immunohematological, hematol...

...rring clinical laboratory; (5) A governmental agency or any person acting on behalf of a governmental agency; (6) A physician who is permitted to bill for the services under division (D) of section 4731.72 of the Revised Code. (B) Nothing in this section shall be construed to do either of the following: (1) Mandate the assignment of benefits for anatomic pathology services; (2) Prohibit a clinical laboratory...

...vernor may authorize the department of health to enter into an agreement on behalf of the state with the United States secretary of health and human services whereby the department may serve as the agency for review of proposed capital expenditures by health care facilities pursuant to section 1122 of the "Social Security Act" as amended by Public Law 92-603, 42 U.S.C. 1320a-1, and the regulations adopted there...

...ed in section 340B(a)(4) of the "Public Health Service Act," 42 U.S.C. 256b(a)(4). "340B drug" means a covered outpatient drug that has been subject to discount pricing under the 340B drug pricing program and is purchased by a 340B covered entity. "340B drug pricing program" means the federal drug pricing program established under 42 U.S.C. 256b. "Contract pharmacy" means a retail pharmacy under contract with a...

...s, one of whom shall be the director of health and the remaining twelve of whom shall be appointed by the governor within ninety days of July 21, 1994. (B) Five of the appointed trustees shall hold the degree of doctor of medicine; of those, two shall be appointed to an initial term of three years, one shall be appointed for an initial term of four years, and two shall be appointed for an initial term of five year...

...The director of health, with participation from the state medical board and board of nursing, shall collaborate with medical, nursing, and physician assistant schools or programs in this state, as well as medical residency and fellowship programs in this state, to develop and implement appropriate curricula in those schools and programs designed to prepare primary care and women's health care physicians, advanced pra...

...The department of health shall make available to the public a toll-free patient safety telephone line. The department may make the toll-free patient safety telephone line available by maintaining a toll-free telephone line specifically for accepting calls regarding patient safety or by using a toll-free telephone line that the department maintains for accepting calls regarding other matters. The department shall ac...