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...(A)(1) A home health agency or nonagency provider seeking to provide skilled home health services shall apply to the department of health for a skilled home health services license. The application shall include all of the following: (a) Evidence that the agency or provider meets one of the following: (i) Is certified for participation in the medicare program; (ii) Is accredited by the accreditation commissi...

...The department of health shall review each license application received under section 3740.03 of the Revised Code. The department's review of the application shall include a site visit for each applicant seeking a license on the basis of division (A)(1)(a)(i) of section 3740.03 of the Revised Code to verify that medicare conditions of participation are met, unless the applicant has already had such a site visit withi...

...(A) Except as provided in section 3740.07 of the Revised Code and in division (B) of this section, a license issued under section 3740.04 of the Revised Code is valid for three years. A person seeking to renew the license shall apply to the department of health using a license renewal form prescribed by rules adopted under section 3740.10 of the Revised Code and comply with any renewal application procedures establis...

...(A) For any of the reasons established in rules adopted under section 3740.10 of the Revised Code, the department of health may take one or more of the following actions, as applicable, with respect to an applicant for or the holder of a license under this chapter: (1) Refuse to issue a license; (2) Refuse to renew or reinstate the holder's license; (3) Impose limitations on the holder's license; (4) Revoke o...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules as the director considers necessary to implement this chapter, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Prescribe license application forms and procedures; (2) Specify the documentation that must be provided and conditions that must be met by an applicant seeking a license on the basis of division (A)(1)(a)(iv) of section 3740.03 of the Revised Code; (3) Pre...

...(A) As used in this section, "applicant" means a person who is under final consideration for employment with a home health agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary position that involves providing direct care to an individual or is referred to a home health agency by an employment service for such a position. (B) No home health agency shall employ an applicant or continue to employ an employee in a position t...

...Whoever violates section 3740.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree on a first offense; for each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no home construction service supplier shall perform any home construction service the cost of which equals or exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars unless the supplier enters into a written home construction services contract with the owner. The contract shall include all agreements and conditions related to the home construction service, including all of t...

...(A) No home construction service supplier shall do any of the following: (1) Prior to commencing work related to the home construction service, fail to enter into a written contract that complies with this chapter; (2) After entering into a contract with an owner and prior to commencing any work that is related to an excess cost, fail to provide an estimate of the excess costs as this chapter requires; (3) A...

...A home construction service supplier may take as a down payment not more than ten per cent of the contract price before the supplier's performance that is required by the contract begins, except a supplier may take as a down payment not more than seventy-five per cent of the total cost of any special order item that is otherwise not returnable or usable before the supplier's performance that is required by the ...

...(A) If, by the attorney general's own inquiries or as a result of complaints, the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that a person has engaged or is engaging in an act or practice that violates this chapter, the attorney general may investigate. (B) For this purpose, the attorney general may administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, adduce evidence, and require the production of relevant matter. If...

... with court approval, may terminate enforcement proceedings brought by the attorney general upon acceptance of an assurance from the supplier of voluntary compliance with this chapter, with respect to the alleged violation. The assurance shall be filed with the court and entered as a consent judgment. A consent judgment is not evidence of prior violation of such chapter. Disregard of the terms of a consent jud...

...For a violation of Chapter 4722. of the Revised Code, an owner has a cause of action and is entitled to relief as follows: (A) Where the violation was an act prohibited by section 4722.02, 4722.03, or 4722.04 of the Revised Code, the owner may, in an individual action, rescind the transaction or recover the owner's actual economic damages plus an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars in noneconomic damag...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Health-care licensing agency" means any department, division, board, section of a board, or other government unit that is authorized by a statute of this or another state to issue a license, certificate, permit, card, or other authority to do either of the following in the context of health care: (1) Engage in a specific profession, occupation, or occupational activity; (2) Have...

...(A) There is hereby established in the department of aging a board of executives of long-term services and supports, which board shall be composed of the following eleven members: (1) Four members who are nursing home administrators, owners of nursing homes, or officers of corporations owning nursing homes, and who shall have an understanding of person-centered care, and experience with a range of long-term servic...

...(A) The board of executives of long-term services and supports shall enter into a written agreement with the department of aging for the department to serve as the board's fiscal agent. The fiscal agent shall be responsible for all the board's fiscal matters and financial transactions, as specified in the agreement. The written agreement shall specify the fees that the board shall pay to the fiscal agent for services...

... money in the fund to administer and enforce this chapter and the rules adopted under section 4751.04 of the Revised Code. Investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.

...d Code as necessary to implement and enforce this chapter.

...No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (A) Operate a nursing home unless it is under the supervision of an administrator whose principal occupation is nursing home administration or hospital administration and who is a licensed nursing home administrator; (B) Practice or offer to practice nursing home administration unless the person is a licensed nursing home administrator; (C) Use any of the fo...

...Nothing in this chapter or the rules adopted under it shall be construed as requiring either of the following: (A) An individual to be a licensed health services executive in order to do either of the following: (1) Practice nursing home administration; (2) Serve in a leadership position at a long-term services and supports setting or direct the practices of others in such a setting. (B) An applicant for ...

...Every operator of a nursing home shall report to the board of executives of long-term services and supports the name and license number of each licensed nursing home administrator who practices nursing home administration at the nursing home not later than ten days after the following dates: (A) The date the licensed nursing home administrator begins to practice nursing home administration at the nursing home; (B...

...The board of executives of long-term services and supports shall administer, or contract with a government or private entity to administer, examinations that an individual must pass to obtain a nursing home administrator license under section 4751.20 of the Revised Code. If the board contracts with a government or private entity to administer the examinations, the contract may authorize the entity to collect and keep...

...Except when the board of executives of long-term services and supports considers it necessary, the board shall not disclose test materials, examinations, or evaluation tools used in an examination administered under section 4751.15 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except as provided in section 4751.201 of the Revised Code, and subject to section 4751.32 of the Revised Code, the board of executives of long-term services and supports shall issue a nursing home administrator license to an individual under this section if all of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) The individual has submitted to the board a completed application for the license in accordance with ...

...Notwithstanding the requirements for a license under this chapter, the board of executives of long-term services and supports shall issue a nursing home administrator license or a health services executive license in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to an applicant if either of the following applies: (A) The applicant holds a license in another state. (B) The applicant has satisfactory work exper...