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...ting, infant and early childhood mental consultation, and preschool special education. (B) For purposes of this chapter and in addition to the services described in division (A) of this section, children's services include, but are not limited to, one or more government programs focused on any of the following: (1) Adoption, child welfare, and foster care services; (2) Early identification and intervention r...

...ode; (2) Approving and entering into contracts, agreements, and other business arrangements on behalf of the department; (3) Making as necessary appointments to the department and approving actions related to departmental employees and officers, including their hiring, promotion, termination, discipline, or investigation; (4) Administering the department and directing the performance of its employees and off...

...ving systems. This includes fostering a continuum of care that promotes family-centered programs and services that acknowledge and support the social, emotional, cognitive, intellectual, and physical development of children and the vital role of families in ensuring the well-being and success of children. (3) The council shall advise the director of children and youth on matters affecting the licensing of centers, ...

...n shall do all of the following: (1) Conduct a complete inventory of services provided or administered by the state that are available to address the infant mortality rate in this state; (2) For each service identified under division (B)(1) of this section, determine both of the following: (a) The sources of the funds that are used to pay for the service; (b) Whether the service and its funding sources ha...

...on 3705.01 of the Revised Code, are not considered finalized by the department of health, and are subject to modification as additional birth and death data are received by the department and added to vital records. (2) "Stillbirth" has the same meaning as in section 5180.12 of the Revised Code. (B) Each calendar quarter, the department of children and youth shall determine the state's preliminary infant mortal...

...n from its mother of a product of human conception of at least twenty weeks of gestation, which after such expulsion or extraction does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. (B) The director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (1) Publish stillbirth data compiled from the departmen...

...y the department that are related to preconception health, reproductive health, prenatal care, labor and delivery, smoking, infant safe sleep practices, breastfeeding, and behavioral health, delineated by race, ethnic group, region of the state, and the state as a whole; (4) A comparison of the state's performance on the population health measures specified in division (A)(1) of this section and, to the extent suc...

... the Revised Code; (b) Reviewing the content of the educational materials to determine if updates or improvements should be made; (c) Reviewing the manner in which the educational materials are distributed, as described in section 5180.15 of the Revised Code, to determine if modifications to that manner should be made. (C) In meeting the requirements under division (B) of this section, the director shall dev...

...e infant, during home-visiting services conducted in accordance with that section; (5) By each child care facility operating in this state, to each of its employees; (6) By a public children services agency, when the agency has initial contact with an infant's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant. (B) An entity or person required to distribute educational materials pursuant to divisio...

...al materials unless the act or omission constitutes willful or wanton misconduct. An entity or person required to distribute the educational materials is not subject to criminal prosecution or, to the extent that a person is regulated under Title XLVII of the Revised Code, professional disciplinary action under that title, for an act or omission associated with the dissemination of those educational materials. ...

...1) "Contractor" means a person who provides personal services pursuant to a contract. (2) "Critical access hospital" means a facility designated as a critical access hospital by the director of health under section 3701.073 of the Revised Code. (3) "Crib" includes a portable play yard or other suitable sleeping place. (B) Each hospital and freestanding birthing center shall implement an infant safe sleep scr...

...l require each recipient of a grant the department of children and youth administers that pertains to safe crib procurement to report annually to the department both of the following: (A) Demographic information specified by the director of children and youth regarding the individuals to whom safe cribs were distributed; (B) If known, the extent to which distributed cribs are being used.

...y the United States centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) for PRAMS questionnaires. (B) The department shall implement and use the questionnaires created under division (A) of this section in a manner that is consistent with the standardized data collection methodology for PRAMS questionnaires prescribed by the CDC model surveillance protocol. In addition, for the purpose of having statistically valid d...

...ipants in their homes. The director may consult with the Ohio partnership to build stronger families for assistance with identifying the programs. (B) An administrator of a program identified under division (A) of this section shall report to the director data on program performance indicators that are used to assess progress toward achieving program goals. The administrator shall report the data in the format and...

...ls of the help me grow program shall be consistent with the goals of the federal home visiting program, as specified by the maternal and child health bureau of the health resources and services administration in the United States department of health and human services or its successor. (D) The director of children and youth shall enter into an interagency agreement with one or more state agencies, including the d...

...ibed in division (A) of this section, a contract with any system operator shall require that the system do all of the following: (1) Serve as a single point of entry for access, assessment, and referral of families and children to appropriate home visiting services based on each family's location of residence; (2) Use a standardized form or other mechanism to assess each family member's risk factors and social ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall develop educational materials describing the health risks of lead-based paint and measures that may be taken to reduce those risks. (B) As part of the home visiting services described in section 5180.21 of the Revised Code, each eligible family residing in a house, apartment, or other residence built before January 1, 1979, shall receive a copy of the educational mate...

...ore adopting the policy, the camp shall consult with a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs. (C) The policy adopted under division (B) of this section shall do all of the following: (1) Identify the one or more locations in which an epinephrine autoinjector must be stored; (2) Specify the conditions under which an epinephrine autoinjector must be stored, replaced, and disposed; (3) S...

...ore adopting the policy, the camp shall consult with a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs, as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (D) A component of a policy adopted by a camp under division (C) of this section shall be a prescriber-issued protocol specifying definitive orders for inhalers, including the dosages of medication to be administered through them, the number of times ...

...ore adopting the policy, the camp shall consult with a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs. (D) The policy adopted under division (C) of this section shall do all of the following: (1) Identify the one or more locations at the camp in which injectable or nasally administered glucagon must be stored; (2) Specify the conditions under which injectable or nasally administered glucagon must...

...s 5180.271 to 5180.278 of the Revised Code, "pregnancy-associated death" means the death of a woman while pregnant or anytime within one year of pregnancy regardless of cause. (B) There is hereby established in the department of children and youth a pregnancy-associated mortality review (PAMR) board to identify and review all pregnancy-associated deaths statewide for the purpose of reducing the incidence of those ...

...duct a review of a pregnancy-associated death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairp...

...chairperson as often as the chairperson determines necessary for timely completion of pregnancy-associated death reviews. The reviews shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under section 5180.278 of the Revised Code. (F) The department of children and youth shall provide meeting space, staff services, and other technical assistance required by the board in carrying out its duties.

...PAMR board shall seek to reduce the incidence of pregnancy-associated deaths in this state by doing all of the following: (A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, and entities that serve pregnant and postpartum women and families; (B) Recommending and developing plans for implementing service and program changes, as well as changes to the groups, pro...

...ction of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, and except as provided in division (B) of this section, an individual, government entity, agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, health care provider, or other public or private entity that provided services to a woman whose death is being reviewed by the PAMR board shall submit to the board a copy of any ...