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...ratory testing; breast examinations and patient education on breast cancer; screening for cervical cancer; screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV screening; voluntary choice of contraception, including abstinence and natural family planning; patient education and pre-pregnancy counseling on the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and drug use during pregnancy; education on sexual coercion and viol...

...ishing of extended care or acute care inpatient services; (2) Has a length of stay not more than ninety-six hours per patient, on an annual average basis; (3) Provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency, laboratory, radiology, and twenty-fourhour emergency care services; (4) Has network agreements in place for patient referral and transfer, a communication system for telemetry systems, electronic sharing of patien...

...vision (D) of this section shall inform patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease or a Parkinsonism at the time of diagnosis or treatment of the Parkinson's disease registry. (F) The director or a representative of a director may inspect upon reasonable notice a representative sample of the medical records of patients with Parkinson's disease diagnosed, treated, or admitted at a group practice, hospital, or othe...

...logists; (13) Health insurers; (14) Patients; (15) Family caregivers. The council's membership also may include employees of agencies of this state that administer programs pertaining to palliative care or are otherwise concerned with the delivery of palliative care in this state. (C) The council's membership shall include individuals who have worked with various age groups, including children and the elder...

...e shall maintain the confidentiality of patient-identifying information submitted under division (B) of this section and section 3701.505 of the Revised Code. The information is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, except to the extent that the information is used in preparing reports under this section. Nothing in this division prohibits the department from providing patient-identifying i...

...amination 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 shall maintain records to show the examination results or that the examination was refused.

...artment's internet web site. (B) If a patient under the care of any of the following health care professionals or facilities receives either a test result indicating Down syndrome or a prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, the health care professional or facility shall provide to the patient or the patient's representative a copy of the information sheet created under division (A) of this section: (1)...

...y other than the following: (1) The patient who receives the services or another individual, such as a parent, spouse, or guardian, who is responsible for the patient's bills; (2) A responsible insurer or other third-party payor of a patient who receives the services; (3) A hospital, public health clinic, or not-for-profit health clinic ordering the services; (4) A referring clinical laboratory; (5) A ...

...certifying a primary care practice as a patient centered medical home; (B) Specify the types of medical practices that constitute primary care practices for the purpose of certifying patient centered medical homes; (C) Specify the health care quality and performance information that certified patient centered medical homes must report to the department pursuant to section 3701.942 of the Revised Code.

... and evaluates the care provided to its patients in accordance with at least the minimum patient safety monitoring and evaluation requirements established in rules adopted under division (D) of this section. (5) The center meets the quality assessment and improvement standards established in rules adopted under division (D) of this section. (B) If the director determines that a freestanding birthing center is no lo...

...rug for the purpose of administering to patients or for using the drug in treating patients in the professional's office. (14) "Dangerous drug" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (15) "Generically equivalent drug" means a drug that contains identical amounts of the identical active ingredients, but not necessarily containing the same inactive ingredients, that meets the identical compen...

...e; (d) If the individual is a hospice patient as defined in section 3712.01 of the Revised Code, a hospice care program licensed under Chapter 3712. of the Revised Code. (2) The agreement required by division (D)(1) of this section shall include all of the following provisions: (a) That the individual will be provided skilled nursing care in the facility only if a determination has been made that the individual...

...epresentative: (a) The identity of any patient or resident; (b) The identity of any individual who submits a complaint about a home; (c) The identity of any individual who provides the director with information about a home and has requested confidentiality; (d) Any information that reasonably would tend to disclose the identity of any individual described in division (A)(1)(a) to (c) of this section. (2) An age...

.... (G) "Resident" includes a resident, patient, former resident or patient, or deceased resident or patient of a long-term care facility or a residential care facility. (H) "Physical abuse" means knowingly causing physical harm or recklessly causing serious physical harm to a resident through either of the following: (1) Physical contact with the resident; (2) The use of physical restraint, chemical restraint,...

...rticipate in the early care of a trauma patient. (3) The hospital has adhered to its protocols and the hospital's performance has met the expected outcomes, as evidenced by data obtained from a review of at least two years of the hospital's trauma care activities. (4) The care of patients will not be compromised by designating the hospital as a level II pediatric trauma center. (E) A hospital's designation under t...

...fort to improve the quality of care for patients affected by stroke, the department of health shall establish and maintain a process for the collection, transmission, compilation, and oversight of data related to stroke care. Such data shall be collected, transmitted, compiled, and overseen in a manner prescribed by the director of health. As part of the process and except as provided in division (A)(2) of this se...

...57 of the Revised Code: (A) "Direct patient care" means care provided by a nurse with direct responsibility to carry out medical regimens or nursing care for one or more patients. (B) "Inpatient care unit" means a hospital unit, including an operating room or other inpatient care area, in which nursing care is provided to patients who have been admitted to the hospital. (C) "Nurse" means a...

...wastes generated in providing care to a patient by an emergency medical services organization, as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code, to and leave them at a hospital, as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code, for treatment at a treatment facility owned or operated by the hospital or, in conjunction with infectious wastes generated by the hospital, at another treatment facility regardless of wheth...

...ation method where the professional and patient are simultaneously present in the same geographic location. (5) "Telehealth services" has the same meaning as in section 4743.09 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) A health benefit plan shall provide coverage for telehealth services on the same basis and to the same extent that the plan provides coverage for the provision of in-person health care services. (2) A healt...

... provide benefits for services on an outpatient basis for each eligible employee and dependent for mental or emotional disorders, or for evaluations, that are at least equal to the following: (1) Payments not less than five hundred fifty dollars in a twelve-month period, for services legally performed by or under the clinical supervision of any of the following: (a) A physician authorized under Chapter 4731. of...

...or providing a health care service to a patient if both of the following are the case: (A) The pharmacist provided the health care service to the patient in accordance with Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code, including any of the following services: (1) Managing drug therapy under a consult agreement pursuant to section 4729.39 of the Revised Code; (2) Administering immunizations in accordance with section 4729....

...dministration of local anesthesia to a patient. "Direct supervision" does not mean that the dentist must observe the administration of local anesthesia to a patient. (B) Under the direct supervision of a dentist, a dental hygienist may administer intraoral block and infiltration local anesthesia to a patient if the dental hygienist is in compliance with division (D) of this section and either of the following...

...renewal application; (2) The number of patients treated, during the two years prior to submission of the renewal application, by each dental hygienist providing dental hygiene services under the dentist's authorization; (3) For each number of patients provided under division (B)(2) of this section, the number of patients whom the dentist clinically evaluated following the provision of dental hygiene services by a d...

...ialysis center; (e) A freestanding inpatient rehabilitation facility; (f) An ambulatory surgical facility; (g) A freestanding cardiac catheterization facility; (h) A freestanding birthing center; (i) A freestanding or mobile diagnostic imaging center; (j) A freestanding radiation therapy center. (2) "Nurse education program" means a prelicensure nurse education program approved by the board of nu...

...wing: (1) Criteria for referral of a patient by the clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner to a collaborating physician or podiatrist or another physician or podiatrist; (2) A process for the clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner to obtain a consultation with a collaborating physician or podiatrist or another physician or...