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...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.

...e date of this section, the director of health shall publish a report detailing the incidence of rare diseases in this state, with subsequent reports published every two years thereafter. To the extent possible, the reports shall include data regarding individuals who have been diagnosed with a rare disease disaggregated by gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and type of insurance coverage.

...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.

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

... (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 services through the use of volunteer health care professionals and voluntary care networks. (2) "Indigent and uninsured person" has the same meaning as in section 2305.234 of the Revised Code. (3) "Nonprofit shelter or healt...

...he 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 ...

...(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...

...The director of health shall have power to administer oaths in all parts of the state so far as the exercise of such power is incidental to the performance of the duties of the director.

...ent 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) of this secti...

...ous 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 department may...

...The director of health shall: (A) Encourage and assist in the development of programs of education and research pertaining to the causes, detection, and treatment of sickle cell disease and provide for rehabilitation 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 gover...

...86, 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 of the rules. (C) In determining eligibility for services provided under the WIC program, the department...

...(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 ...

...bly make this possible, the director of health shall provide, for the purpose of section 3313.671 of the Revised Code, the means of immunization against chicken pox to boards of health, legislative authorities of municipal corporations, and boards of township trustees.

...hereby established in the department of health. The program shall have the following goals: (1) To educate health care professionals, teachers and other educational personnel, child care providers, parents, early intervention and developmental disabilities providers, and other community-based services providers in this state regarding the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, including the range of symptoms...

...(A) The director of health may establish a school-based fluoride mouth rinse program. If the director establishes the program, divisions (B) to (E) of this section are applicable. (B) The director shall conduct a program to educate employees of the department of health and dental hygienists licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code on how to train employees of, and volunteers for, public and nonpublic ...

...ivity to touch. (B) The department of health shall include information on its internet web site to promote complex regional pain syndrome education in a manner that enables individuals to make informed decisions about their health. The information on the web site shall include all of the following: (1) Emerging research regarding the pathophysiology of CRPS; (2) The risk factors that contribute to the manifes...

...f age or older. (B) The department of health shall prepare an influenza vaccine information sheet that pertains to older adults. The information sheet shall contain all of the following: (1) A description of influenza, including its causes, symptoms, and methods of transmission; (2) A discussion of the health risks that influenza poses to older adults; (3) A discussion of the influenza vaccine, including its ...

...on (B) of this section, the director of health shall convene meetings with staff of the department of health, department of medicaid, department of administrative services, and commission on minority health to do all of the following: (1) Assess the prevalence of all types of diabetes in this state, including disparities in that prevalence among various demographic populations and local jurisdictions; (2) Establi...

...ed disaster, epidemic, pandemic, public health emergency, or public safety emergency, an individual with a developmental disability or any other permanent disability who is in need of surgery or any other health care procedure, any medical or other health care test, or any clinical care visit shall be given the opportunity to have at least one parent or legal guardian present if the presence of the individual's paren...