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...For each year that federal funds are made available to states under Title V of the "Social Security Act," 124 Stat. 352 (2010), 42 U.S.C. 710, as amended, for use in providing abstinence education, the director of health shall submit to the United States secretary of health and human services an application for the allotment of those funds that is available to this state. The director shall use the funds receiv...

...(A) The director of health shall perform duties that are incident to the director's position as chief executive officer of the department of health. The director shall administer the laws relating to health and sanitation and the rules of the department of health. The director may designate employees of the department and, during a public health emergency, other persons to administer the laws and rules on the d...

...(A) The director of health shall accept and administer grants received from the federal government or other sources, public or private, that are made available for use in monitoring, studying, and preventing pregnancy losses. To the extent that funding from grants is available, the director shall do the following: (1) Establish a population-based pregnancy loss registry to monitor the incidence of various types of ...

...y to be followed by the department of health when distributing funds for the purpose of providing family planning services, including funds the department receives through the "Maternal and Child Health Block Grant," Title V of the "Social Security Act," 95 Stat. 818 (1981), 42 U.S.C. 701, as amended, and funds the department receives through Title X of the "Public Health Service Act," 84 Stat. 1504 (1970), 42 U.S.C....

...ntity that has with another entity a legal relationship created or governed by at least one written instrument that demonstrates any of the following: (a) Common ownership, management, or control; (b) A franchise agreement; (c) The granting or extension of a license or other agreement that authorizes an entity to use the other entity's brand name, trademark, service mark, or other registered identification mark. ...

...(A) The director of health shall: (1) Require reports and make inspections and investigations that the director considers necessary; (2) Provide administration, appoint personnel, make reports, and take other action as necessary to comply with the requirements of the "Construction and Modernization of Hospitals and Other Medical Facilities Act," Title VI of the "Public Health Service Act," 60 Stat. 1041 (1946...

...If authorized by federal statute or regulation, the director of health may establish and collect fees for conducting the initial certification of any person or entity as a provider of health services for purposes of the medicare program established under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C.A. 301, as amended. The fee established for conducting an initial medicare certification shall ...

...nduct or administer an examination or evaluation of an individual for the purpose of determining competency or issuing a license, certificate, registration, or other authority to practice or perform duties, the director of health or department of health may contract with an entity to conduct or administer the examination or evaluation. The contract may authorize the entity to collect and retain, as all or part of the...

...annual reports required by section 307.626 of the Revised Code; (2) Establish guidelines for a county or regional child fatality review board to follow in compiling statistics for annual reports so that the reports do not contain any information that would permit any person's identity to be ascertained from a report; (3) Establish guidelines for a county or regional child fatality review board to follow in creati...

...The director of health is authorized to make grants for women's health services from funds appropriated for that purpose by the general assembly. None of the funds received through grants for women's health services shall be used to provide abortion services. None of the funds received through these grants shall be used for counseling for or referrals for abortion, except in the case of a medical emergency. These ...

...A) As used in this section: (1) "Federally qualified health center" means a health center that receives a federal public health services grant under the "Public Health Services Act," 117 Stat. 2020, 42 U.S.C. 254b, as amended, or another health center designated by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration as a federally qualified health center. (2) "Federally qualified health center look-alike" m...

...used in this section: (1) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (2) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Drug," "dangerous drug," and "licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs" have the same meanings...

...A) As used in this section, "board of health" has the same meaning as in section 3707.70 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a procedure for fetal-infant mortality review boards to follow in conducting a review of a fetal or infant death. The rules shall do all of the following: (1) Specify the procedures a board of h...

...The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a procedure for county or regional drug overdose fatality review committees to follow in conducting a review of an overdose death. The rules shall do all of the following: (A) Establish the format for the annual reports required by section 307.636 of the Revised Code; (B) Establish guidelines for a county...

...The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a procedure for county or regional suicide fatality review committees to follow in conducting a review of a suicide death. The rules shall do all of the following: (A) Establish the format for the annual reports required by section 307.646 of the Revised Code; (B) Establish guidelines for a county or regi...

...(A) The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing a procedure for county or regional domestic violence fatality review boards to follow in conducting a review of a death by domestic violence. The rules shall do all of the following: (1) Establish the format for the annual reports required by section 307.656 of the Revised Code; (2) Establish guidelines...

...The director of health shall keep health officials and the general public fully informed in a printed annual report in regard to the work of the department of health and on the progress that is being made in studying the cause and prevention of disease and such kindred subjects as may contribute to the welfare of the people of the state.

...The director of health and any person the director authorizes may, without fee or hindrance, enter, examine, and survey all grounds, vehicles, apartments, buildings, and places in furtherance of any duty laid upon the director or department of health or where the director has reason to believe there exists a violation of any health law or rule.

...Every governmental entity or private nonprofit corporation or association whose employees or representatives are defined as residents' rights advocates under divisions (E)(1) and (2) of section 3721.10 of the Revised Code shall register with the department of health on forms furnished by the director of health and shall provide such reasonable identifying information as the director may prescribe. The department s...

...nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," as amended, or a program component of a nonprofit organization, to which both of the following apply: (a) Its primary mission is to provide health care services for free or for a minimal administrative fee to individuals with limited resources. (b) It facilitates the delivery of health care ser...

... Revised Code. (B) The department of health, on its internet web site, shall make information available regarding free clinics. The information shall include all of the following: (1) A description of what constitutes a free clinic; (2) The benefits that free clinics provide to the state's health care system, including the services they make available to both patients and health care providers; (3) A directory of...

...(A) The department of health is hereby designated as the state agency responsible for administering the medicare rural hospital flexibility program, as established in 42 U.S.C. 1395i-4, as amended. (B) The director of health shall designate as a critical access hospital a hospital registered as an acute care hospital with the department under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code if the hospital meets the following re...

...The department of health constitutes the sole agency of the state for the purpose of: (A) Making an inventory of existing hospitals and medical facilities, surveying the need for construction and modernization of hospitals and medical facilities, and developing a program of hospital and medical facilities construction and modernization as provided in sections 3701.01, 3701.04, 3701.08, 3701.09, and 3701.37 to 3701.4...

...The director of health shall make an inventory of existing hospitals and medical facilities including public, nonprofit, and proprietary hospitals and medical facilities, survey the need for construction and modernization of hospitals and medical facilities and, on the basis of such inventory and survey, develop a program for the construction and modernization of such public and other nonprofit hospitals and medical ...

...The director of health may require any district health commissioner to attend, immediately after his appointment, a school of instruction to be conducted by the department of health at Columbus. The course at such school of instruction shall not exceed four weeks in duration, and the necessary expenses of the commissioner in attending such school shall be paid by the district board of health upon certification from t...