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...permit to install or a license issued under this chapter or an application for such a permit or license, or falsification of any other material information that is required to be submitted to a board or the director under this chapter and rules adopted under it, is grounds for the denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit to install or a license issued under this chapter.

...his chapter, applicable rules adopted under it, or terms or conditions of a permit, license, or order issued under it. The court of common pleas in which an action for injunction is filed has the jurisdiction to and shall grant preliminary and permanent injunctive relief upon a showing that the person against whom the action is brought has violated, is violating, or is threatening to violate any section of this chapt...

...tion debris is being disposed of are causing or threatening to cause an imminent and substantial threat to public health or safety or the environment or an imminent and substantial risk of fire and that, due to any of those conditions, an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health or safety or the environment, the board or the director may, without notice or hearing, issue an order recit...

...o person shall violate a rule adopted under this chapter. (C) No person shall violate an order issued under this chapter. Violation of an order issued by a board of health under this chapter is not also a violation of section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable. (D) No person who holds a permit or license issued under this chapter shall violate any of the terms or conditions of the permi...

...uding, but not limited to, the record made under section 3714.08 of the Revised Code of inspection of each construction and demolition debris facility, information from the annual survey of each health district made under section 3714.09 or 3734.08 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and ground water and leachate data collected in accordance with rules adopted under section 3714.02 of the Revised Code. The database o...

...olates section 3714.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

... the services of others, including a nursing home, residential care facility, home for the aging, and a veterans' home operated under Chapter 5907. of the Revised Code. (b) "Home" also means both of the following: (i) Any facility that a person, as defined in section 3702.51 of the Revised Code, proposes for certification as a skilled nursing facility or nursing facility under Title XVIII or XIX of the "Social ...

... (1) Provide the following skilled nursing care to its residents: (a) Supervision of special diets; (b) Application of dressings, in accordance with rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code; (c) Subject to division (B)(1) of this section, administration of medication. (2) Subject to division (C) of this section, provide other skilled nursing care on a part-time, intermittent basis for not mor...

...A residential care facility may enter into a risk agreement with a resident or the resident's sponsor. Under a risk agreement, the resident or sponsor and the facility agree to share responsibility for making and implementing decisions affecting the scope and quantity of services provided by the facility to the resident. The facility also agrees to identify the risks inherent in a decision made by a resident or spons...

...s to be followed in inspecting and licensing homes. The director may inspect a home at any time. The director may enter at any time, for the purposes of investigation, any institution, residence, facility, or other structure that has been reported to the director or that the director has reasonable cause to believe is operating as a nursing home, residential care facility, or home for the aging without a valid licens...

...Every person who operates a home, as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code, and each county home and district home licensed as a residential care facility shall have available in the home for review by prospective patients and residents, their guardians, or other persons assisting in their placement, each inspection report completed pursuant to section 3721.02 of the Revised Code and each statement of defici...

...as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Deficiency" and "survey" have the same meanings as in section 5165.60 of the Revised Code. (3) "Title XIX" and "Title XVIII" have the same meanings as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of health is hereby designated the state agency responsible for establishing and maintaining health standards and serving as the state survey agency for t...

...Where a nursing home licensed under this Chapter is operated in a building that was leased pursuant to a written lease agreement entered into on or before January 1, 1970, and where the lease agreement does not expressly determine or state the identity of the party that owns the nursing home business, operating rights, certificate of need, or legal rights associated with ownership and operation of the nursing home be...

... as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. The department of health may establish a program of recognition of nursing facilities that provide the highest quality care to residents who are medicaid recipients. The program may be funded with public funds appropriated by the general assembly for the purpose of the program or any funds appropriated for nursing home licensure.

...director and pays the applicable fee as determined by the director. Any fee required by the director under division (A)(1) of this section shall be credited to the general operations fund established under section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. A completed application shall be submitted not later than forty-five days before the proposed effective date of the change of operator if the change of operator does not en...

... as in section 5165.60 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of health shall investigate within ten working days after referral, in accordance with procedures and criteria to be established by the department of health and the department of aging, any unresolved complaint that the office of the state long-term care ombudsman has investigated and found to be valid and refers to the department of health. This r...

...ing as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall enforce the provisions of sections 3721.01 to 3721.13 and 3721.99 of the Revised Code and may issue orders to secure compliance with the provisions of these sections and the rules adopted under them. The director may hold hearings, issue subpoenas, compel testimony, and make adjudications. The director may issue an order revoking a license...

...ome. (1) Except as required by court order, as necessary for the administration or enforcement of any statute relating to homes, or as provided in division (C) of this section, the director and any employee of the department of health shall not release any of the following information without the permission of the individual or of the individual's legal representative: (a) The identity of any patient or resident; ...

...to fire safety in homes as the marshal determines necessary. The rules adopted by the marshal shall be in addition to those fire safety rules that the board of building standards and the director of health are empowered to adopt. In the event of a dispute between the marshal and another officer having responsibilities under sections 3721.01 to 3721.09 of the Revised Code with respect to the interpretation or ap...

...personnel, including management and nursing staff, for each class of home, and the qualifications of nurse aides, as defined in section 3721.21 of the Revised Code, used by long-term care facilities, as defined in that section; (3) The medical, rehabilitative, and recreational services to be provided by each class of home; (4) Dietetic services, including but not limited to sanitation, nutritional adequacy, a...

... shall not be used as the basis for imposing any penalty against the home. (C) Each home shall offer to each resident, in accordance with guidelines issued by the advisory committee, vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia, unless the resident has already received such vaccination or a physician, certified nurse-midwife if authorized as described in section 4723.438 of the Revised Code, clinical nurse specialist...

...he director of health may not deny a nursing home license to a facility seeking a license under this chapter as a nursing home on the grounds that the facility does not satisfy a requirement established in rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code regarding the toilet rooms and dining and recreational areas of nursing homes if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The facility seeks a l...

...ions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (C) Operate a home after the license for such has been revoked by the director of health; (D) Interfere with the inspection of a licensed home by any state or local official when he is performing duties required of him by Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code. All licensed homes shall be open for inspection. (E) Violate any of the provisi...

...ions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (B) Continue operation after its license has been revoked by the director of health; (C) Fail to be open for an inspection, or interfere with an inspection, by a state or local official performing inspection duties under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code; (D) Violate any of the provisions of this chapter or any rules adopted thereunder...

... any person to be placed in any home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code which is being operated without a license from the director of health or from a political subdivision certified pursuant to section 3721.09 of the Revised Code.