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...ons 3701.46 to 3701.50 of the Revised Code, the standard tests for syphilis and gonorrhea are tests approved by the department of health, and shall be made at a laboratory approved to make such tests by the department. Such tests as are required shall, on request of the physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner submitting the specimens, be made without charge by th...

... test or positive gonorrhea test to the department of health on forms prescribed and furnished by the director of health.

...If any pregnant woman is attended during the period of gestation by any person authorized to attend pregnant women, other than a licensed physician, but who is not permitted to take test specimens, then such authorized person shall notify immediately the health commissioner of the city or general health district of the residence of such pregnant woman. The health commissioner shall cause the test specimens to be take...

...en no specimens shall be taken prior to delivery. If no specimens are taken prior to delivery because of the woman's condition, then such specimens shall be taken as soon after delivery as the physician or nurse deems it advisable. The health commissioner of the city or general health district, wherein any person required to be tested for syphilis and gonorrhea under this section or section 3701.49 of the Revised C...

...res for all of the following: (1) Causing rescreenings to be performed when initial screenings have abnormal results; (2) Designating the person or persons who will be responsible for causing screenings and rescreenings to be performed; (3) Giving to the parents of a child notice of the required initial screening and the possibility that rescreenings may be necessary; (4) Communicating to the parents of a...

...tation, and counseling of persons possessing a genetic trait of, or afflicted with, genetic 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 pro...

...s 3701.504 to 3701.509 of the Revised Code: (A) "Parent" means either parent, unless the parents are separated or divorced or their marriage has been dissolved or annulled, in which case "parent" means the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian. (B) "Guardian" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Custodian" means, except as used in division (A) of this section, ...

..., if funds are available, by mass purchasing equipment or establishing a grant system with department funds. (E) The department of health shall administer the program established under this section pursuant to rules adopted under section 3701.508 of the Revised Code.

...the screening results; (c) Notify the department of health of the screening results for each newborn or infant screened. (2) A hearing screening conducted under this section shall be conducted under the direction of an audiologist, physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner or in collaboration with a physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist,...

...The department of health shall prepare and distribute to all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers required to provide hearing screenings under the program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code and each board of health, information describing factors or conditions of hearing loss and the effect of such a loss on an infant or child's language development, and information on the importance of he...

... shall adopt rules governing the statewide hearing screening, tracking, and early intervention program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Specify how hospitals and freestanding birthing centers are to comply with the requirements of section 3701.505 of the Revised Code, including methods to be used for hearing screening, except that with regard...

...(A) The department of health shall develop a mechanism to analyze and interpret the hearing screening information to be reported under division (B) of this section. The department shall notify all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers subject to the reporting requirements of the date the department anticipates that the mechanism will be complete. After the mechanism is complete, the department shall notify each...

...he person or persons responsible for causing the screening to be performed; (b) Specifying screening equipment and methods; (c) Identifying when the screening should be performed; (d) Providing notice of the required screening to the newborn's parent, guardian, or custodian; (e) Communicating screening results to the newborn's parent, guardian, or custodian and attending physician, certified nurse-midwife...

...scharge from the eyes of such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any, occurring any time within two weeks after the birth of such infant, shall be known as "inflammation of the eyes of the newborn." Any inflammation of the conjunctiva or cornea, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eyes, occurring at any time after two weeks after birth, if caused by the gonococcus, ...

... 3701.501 and 3701.502 of the Revised Code shall be used to counsel or refer for abortion.

... of the eyes, knowing either condition, defined in section 3701.51 of the Revised Code, to exist, within six hours thereafter, shall report such facts, as the department of health shall direct, to the health commissioner of the city or general health district within which such person may reside.

...sult of all such investigations, as the department of health directs; (C) Conform to such other rules and regulations as the department promulgates for the health commissioner's further guidance; (D) Determine the nature of the inflammation of the eyes in any case reported to the health commissioner, and refer immediately to the bureau of services for the visually impaired, any inflammation of the eyes, for such ...

...The department of health shall: (A) Enforce sections 3701.51 to 3701.55 of the Revised Code; (B) Promulgate rules as necessary for the purpose of those sections and as the director of health deems necessary for the further and proper guidance of health commissioners; (C) Provide for the gratuitous distribution of a scientific prophylactic for inflammation of the eyes of the newborn, together with directions for it...

...Every physician, certified nurse-midwife, or other person in attendance at childbirth shall, immediately after the birth, use in the eyes of the newborn child some prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes of such child, and shall make a record on the birth certificate of the prophylactic used.

...all enforce quarantine and isolation orders, and the rules the department of health adopts.

...ll prosecutions and proceedings by the department of health for the violation of sections 3701.01 to 3701.56, 3705.01 to 3705.29, 3707.06, 3709.01 to 3709.04, 3709.07 to 3709.11, 3709.13, 3709.17, 3709.18, and 3709.21 to 3709.36 of the Revised Code, or for the violation of any of the orders or rules of the department, shall be instituted by the director of health. Except as provided in division (C) of section 3...

...rsuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a graduated system of fines based on the scope and severity of violations and the history of compliance, not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars per incident, and in an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may impose a fine against any person who violates division (C) of section 3701.23, division (C) of section 3701.232, division (C) of secti...

...and 3705.01 to 3705.29 of the Revised Code.

...as reason to believe that the woman is using or has used a controlled substance in a manner that may place the woman's fetus in jeopardy shall encourage the woman to enroll in a drug treatment program offered by a provider of addiction services or alcohol and drug addiction services: (1) Physicians authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surger...

...Every hospital agency, as defined in section 140.01 of the Revised Code, may offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient twenty-one years of age or over unless contrary orders are given by the attending physician or unless the examination has been performed within the preceding year. Any female in-patient may refuse the examination. If the examination is offered, the hospital agency sh...