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...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 ...

...ion 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 entity's compensation under the contract, an...

...(A) The department of health, in consultation with the department of children and youth and any bodies acting as child fatality review boards on October 5, 2000, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a procedure for county or regional child fatality review boards to follow in conducting a review of the death of a child. The rules shall do all of the following: (1) Esta...

...equirements for state funding without losing its eligibility for federal funding. Each applicant for these funds shall provide sufficient assurance to the director of all of the following: (A) The program shall not discriminate in the provision of services based on an individual's religion, race, national origin, disability, age, sex, number of pregnancies, or marital status; (B) The program shall provide servi...

...(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" ...

...erwise prohibits or restricts the dispensing of drugs without a prescription or record of a prescription. (E) On the governor's declaration of an emergency that affects the public health, the director of health may issue an order to implement one or more of the protocols developed pursuant to division (B), (C), or (D) of this section. At a minimum, the director's order shall identify the one or more protocols to be...

... 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 health must use to establish and operate a fetal-infant mortality r...

...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...

...ual 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.

...e 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.

... the list shall be made available to nursing home administrators as defined in division (C) of section 3721.10 of the Revised Code.

... a 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 ...

...as in section 3701.071 of the 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 p...

...(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...

... 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 facilities as will, in conjunction with existing facilities, afford the necessary physical facilities for furnishing adequate hospital and medical facilities services to ...

...l 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 the director that such officer has attended the school.

...r as the exercise of such power is incidental to the performance of the duties of the director.

...son or government entity other than the department of health or a program administered by the department. (2) "Third party benefits" means any and all benefits paid by a third party to or on behalf of an individual or the individual's parent or guardian for goods or services the individual has received from the department of health or a grantee or contractor of the department. (B) Except as provided in division (C)...

...ble or contagious disease. (B)(1) The department of health shall have supervision of all matters relating to the preservation of the life and health of the people and have authority in matters of quarantine and isolation, which it may declare and enforce, when neither exists, and modify, relax, or abolish, when either has been established. (2) Under the authority described in division (B)(1) of this section, the ...

...itation and counseling of persons possessing the trait of or afflicted with this disease; (B) Advise, consult, cooperate with, and assist, by contract or otherwise, agencies of this state and the federal government, agencies of the governments of other states, agencies of political subdivisions of this state, and private organizations, corporations, and associations in the development and promotion of programs perta...

...n, infants, and children" established under the "Child Nutrition Act of 1966," 80 Stat. 885, 42 U.S.C. 1786, as amended. (B) The department of health is hereby designated as the state agency to administer the WIC program. The director of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary for administering the WIC program. The rules may include civil money penalties for violations o...

...(A) The department of health shall make available on its web site information about the risks associated with meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B, the availability of vaccines, and the effectiveness of the vaccines. The department shall provide written notice of the availability of meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B information on the web site to all of the following: (1) Each city, local, exempted ...