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...No person or resident shall be denied admission to or discharged from a long-term care facility or otherwise discriminated or retaliated against because of the decision to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in a resident's room in the facility.

...(A) No person other than the resident or resident's guardian or attorney in fact who authorized the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in the resident's room in a long-term care facility shall intentionally obstruct, tamper with, or destroy the device or a recording made by the device. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no person other than the following shall intentionally...

...The director of health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement sections 3721.60 to 3721.66 of the Revised Code.

...Sections 3721.60 to 3721.67 of the Revised Code do not apply if an electronic monitoring device is installed by a law enforcement agency and used solely for a bona fide law enforcement purpose.

...partment of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code; (3) A residential facility licensed by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; (4) A facility operated by a hospice care program licensed by the department of health under Chapter 3712. of the Revised Code that is used exclusively for care of hospice patients or any other fac...

...tates centers for medicare and medicaid services, which shall reduce any civil monetary penalty imposed under this section by the same amount; (5) The home's history of compliance. (D) If the director determines the need for a civil monetary penalty under this section, the director may enter into settlement negotiations with the affected home. Settlements may include any of the following: (1) A lesser civil ...

... means any of the following: (1) Any service identified in divisions (G)(1) to (6) of this section that is provided in a patient's place of residence used as the patient's home; (2) Any activity that requires the person performing the activity to be routinely alone with a patient or to routinely have access to a patient's personal property or financial documents regarding a patient; (3) For each home health ...

... license to provide skilled home health services issued under this chapter: (a) Provide skilled home health services through one or more employees; (b) Hold the agency, or any employee of the agency, out as a provider of skilled home health services. (2) No home health agency shall do either of the following unless the agency holds either a current, valid license to provide nonmedical home health services, o...

... 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 commission for health care, the community health accredit...

...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...

...o 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 that involves providing direct care to an individual if any of the following apply: (1) A review of the databases listed in division (D) of this section reveals any of the following: (a) That the applicant or employee is included in one or more ...

...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.

... 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 the following: (1) The supplier's nam...

...(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...

...s who have engaged in home construction service contracts in this state for damage caused by an act or practice described in this chapter. (B) On motion of the attorney general and without bond, in the attorney general's action under this section, the court may make appropriate orders, including appointment of a referee or a receiver, for sequestration of assets, to reimburse owners found to have been damaged,...

... bad faith; (2) The home construction service supplier has knowingly committed an act or practice that violates this chapter. (E) As used in this section, "actual economic damages" means damages for direct, incidental, or consequential pecuniary losses resulting from a violation of Chapter 4722. of the Revised Code and does not include damages for noneconomic loss as defined in section 2315.18 of the Revised ...

...y, or premises. (B) "Licensed health services executive" means an individual who holds a valid health services executive license. (C) "Licensed nursing home administrator" means an individual who holds a valid nursing home administrator license. (D) "Long-term services and supports setting" means any institutional or community-based setting in which medical, health, psychosocial, habilitative, rehabilitative...

...ging 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 services and supports settings; (2)(a) Three members who ...

...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 ...

...ry the board of executives of long-term services and supports fund. The fund shall consist of the amounts the board of executives of long-term services and supports collects under this chapter as fees, civil penalties, and fines. The board shall use the 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 cre...