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... the person is a resident or a resident patient of an institution, home, or other residential facility that is: (a) Licensed as a nursing home, residential care facility, or home for the aging by the director of health under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code; (b) Maintained as a county home or district home by the board of county commissioners or a joint board of county commissioners under Chapter 5155. of th...

...unselors, for employment in hospital outpatient and community clinics, especially in the counseling of middle-aged patients. (C) Assistance in finding employment. In its job-finding program, the staff shall work with the director of job and family services, and any other appropriate public or private agency in the area where the center is located. (D) Health service programs, including a clinic based on principles ...

...agement of the county hospital and its patients. The physicians, nurses, and other employees may be suspended or removed by the administrator at any time the welfare of the hospital warrants suspension or removal. The administrator may obtain physicians, nurses, and other employees by direct employment, entering into contracts, or granting authority to practice in the hospital. Persons employed directly shall b...

...spital as a public hospital, admitting patients without regard to race, creed, or color, then, after an opportunity is given to be heard upon written charges, said agreement shall terminate and the control and management of said hospital, together with all additions, improvements, and equipment, shall revert to and become the property of the county to be operated as provided by law.

...h the terms of the agreement, admitting patients without regard to race, creed, or color, then, after an opportunity is given by the county hospital commission to be heard on written charges, the lease shall be terminated by the county hospital commission, with the consent of the board of county commissioners, and the control and management of the hospital facilities together with all additions and equipment shall re...

...ss the needs of board residents who are patients in the institution, with an emphasis on managing appropriate hospital bed day use and discharge planning. The continuity of care agreement shall not require the board to provide addiction services, mental health services, or recovery supports other than those on the list of services and supports submitted by the board pursuant to division (B) of this section and approv...

...he services they make available to both patients and health care providers; (3) A directory of free clinics, including for each clinic its address and contact information and its hours of operation; (4) A notice each time that a new free clinic is opened. (C) Each year, the department shall promote the designation under section 5.252 of the Revised Code of December as "Free Clinic Appreciation Month." The promotio...

...xperienced by the individual who is the patient. The director of health may take any action necessary to enforce this section.

...as it deems necessary; (D) Analysis of patient specimens and food samples necessary for investigation of foodborne illnesses. In foodborne illness investigations, the laboratory shall cooperate and consult with the director of agriculture acting pursuant to section 3715.02 of the Revised Code.

... all other specific information about a patient to health care providers and facilities. Disclosure may not be requested or made solely for the purpose of identifying an individual who has a positive HIV test result or has been diagnosed as having AIDS or an AIDS-related condition in order to refuse to treat the individual. Referral of an individual to another health care provider or facility based on reasonable prof...

...rnment funds shall refuse to admit as a patient, or to provide services to, any individual solely because the individual refuses to consent to an HIV test or to disclose HIV test results. (B) The prohibition contained in division (A) of this section does not prevent a physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, or a person licensed to practice dentistry under Chapter...

...arkinson's disease researcher; (8) A patient living with Parkinson's disease; (9) Any other members the director deems necessary. (B) The committee shall do both of the following: (1) Assist the director of health in the development and implementation of the Parkinson's disease registry; (2) Advise the director on maintaining and improving the registry. (C) The director or the director's designee sh...

...es not permit a psychologist to admit a patient to a hospital in violation of section 3727.06 of the Revised Code. (C) The governing body of any hospital that provides maternity services, in considering and acting upon applications for clinical privileges, shall not discriminate against a qualified person solely on the basis that the person is authorized to practice nurse-midwifery. An application from a certified...

...ion about palliative care delivery in a patient's home and in primary, secondary, and tertiary environments; best practices for palliative care delivery; and consumer educational materials and referral information on palliative care, including hospice. The department may develop and implement other initiatives regarding palliative care and education as the department considers appropriate. In implementing this sec...

...e field of care and management of lupus patients to bring the latest information on clinical advances to health care providers; (6) Conduct statewide conferences on lupus at appropriate intervals; (7) Prepare an annual report that describes the recipient's use of the grant and submit a copy of the report to the department.

... or facility that is accessible to all patients, employees, and visitors. The notice shall be displayed on a poster with dimensions of at least seventeen inches by eleven inches. The first two sentences of the notice shall be printed in at least a forty-four-point typeface and the remaining lines shall be in at least a thirty-point typeface. (C) The department of health shall publish the following notice on i...

...the following to be provided: (1) The patient number for the woman on whom the abortion was performed or attempted; (2) The name, primary business address, and signature of the attending physician described in section 3701.79 of the Revised Code who performed or attempted to perform the abortion; (3) The name and address of the facility in which the abortion was performed or attempted, and whether the facility ...

...es, and physician assistants to provide patient counseling on efficacy-based contraceptives, including long-acting reversible contraceptives.

...the director of health establishes the patient centered medical home education pilot project, the director shall prepare reports of its findings and recommendations from the pilot project. Each report shall include an evaluation of the learning opportunities generated by the pilot project, the physicians and advanced practice registered nurses trained in the pilot project, the costs of the pilot project, and th...

...for the safe and immediate transfer of patients from the facility to the hospital when medical care beyond the care that can be provided at the ambulatory surgical facility is necessary, including when emergency situations occur or medical complications arise. A copy of the agreement shall be filed with the director of health. (B) An ambulatory surgical facility shall update a written transfer agreement every...

...ery or the physician's ability to admit patients to a hospital identified in a variance application, as described in division (B)(3)(e) of section 3702.304 of the Revised Code. Notification under these circumstances shall occur not later than one week after the facility becomes aware of the event's occurrence.

... Provide primary care services in an outpatient or ambulatory setting approved by the department of health; (b) Provide primary care services without regard to a patient's ability to pay; (c) Meet the requirements for a medicaid provider agreement and enter into the agreement with the department of medicaid to provide primary care services to medicaid recipients. (3) The department of health agrees, as provided in...

...ide dental services without regard to a patient's ability to pay; (c) Meet the requirements for a medicaid provider agreement and enter into the agreement with the department of medicaid to provide dental services to medicaid recipients. (3) The department of health agrees, as provided in section 3702.85 of the Revised Code, to repay, so long as the individual performs the service obligation agreed to under divisio...

...iropractic services without regard to a patient's ability to pay; (c) Meet the requirements for a medicaid provider agreement and enter into the agreement with the department of medicaid to provide chiropractic services to medicaid recipients. (3) The department of health agrees, as provided in section 3702.98 of the Revised Code, to repay all or part of the principal and interest of a government or other educati...

..." means the physician in charge of the patient's care for the illness or condition that resulted in death. (F) "Institution" means any establishment, public or private, that provides medical, surgical, or diagnostic care or treatment, or domiciliary care, to two or more unrelated individuals, or to persons committed by law. (G) "Funeral director" has the meaning given in section 4717.01 of the Revised Code. ...

...h assistant may personally furnish to a patient samples of drugs and therapeutic devices that are included in the certified mental health assistant's physician-delegated prescriptive authority, subject to all of the following: (1) The amount of the sample furnished shall not exceed a seventy-two-hour supply, except when the minimum available quantity of the sample is packaged in an amount that is greater than a sev...

...g or the dosage of radiation to which a patient is exposed. (B) "Chiropractor" means an individual licensed under Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code to practice chiropractic. (C) "Ionizing radiation" means any electromagnetic or particulate radiation that interacts with atoms to produce ionization in matter, including x-rays, gamma rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, and other nuclear...

...ate of entrance or commitment of every patient in the institutions governed by it, the date, cause, and terms of discharge and the condition of such person at the time of leaving, and also a record of all transfers from one institution to another, and, if such person dies while in the care or custody of the department, the date and cause of death. These and such other facts as the department requires shall be ...

...diagnosis, release, or discharge of any patient; (2) Visit each institution regularly to review its operations and to investigate complaints made by any patient or by any person on behalf of a patient, provided these duties may be performed by a person designated by the director. (E) The department of mental health and addiction services may provide or contract to provide addiction services for offenders incarcer...

...or the entertainment and welfare of the patients of the institution. The director shall establish rules for the operation of the industrial and entertainment fund. (B) Commissary fund created and maintained for the benefit of patients in the institution. Commissary revenue over and above operating costs and reserve shall be considered profits. All profits from the commissary fund operations shall be paid into t...

...ty of relatives for the support of any patient or resident in a benevolent institution under the control of the department of mental health and addiction services or the department of developmental disabilities accrued prior to January 1, 1956, including the liability of the patient personally, is hereby canceled, provided that this section does not abrogate any written agreements or security arrangement for t...

...All patients shall be maintained at the expense of the state. The traveling and incidental expenses in conveying them to a hospital shall be paid by the county of commitment. On admission, patients shall be neatly and comfortably clothed. Thereafter, the expense of necessary clothing shall be borne by the responsible relatives or guardian if they are financially able. If not furnished, the state shall bear the expens...

... and addiction services shall charge a patient, patient's estate, or liable relative an amount discounted from the amount the department charges under section 5121.33 of the Revised Code if the department determines through the application process described in section 5121.36 of the Revised Code or through the financial assessment process described in section 5121.37 of the Revised Code that the patient, estat...

...After a patient's admittance to a hospital, the department of mental health and addiction services shall conduct a financial assessment to determine whether the patient, patient's estate, or liable relative will be charged an amount discounted from the amount the department charges under section 5121.33 of the Revised Code. The department shall make the determination in accordance with sections 5121.40 and 5121...

...ded in division (B) of this section, a patient, patient's estate, or liable relative shall cease to be eligible for a discount under section 5121.36 or 5121.37 of the Revised Code on accumulation of countable assets in excess of an amount equal to fifty per cent of the difference between the following: (1) The gross annual income that corresponds with a family size of two persons at one hundred per cent of th...

...Irrespective of the number of patients for which the department of mental health and addiction services may charge a liable relative under sections 5121.33 and 5121.35 of the Revised Code, the department shall not charge a liable relative or group of liable relatives who are members of the same family unit for the support of more than one patient during the same period of time.

...mediately shall notify the board of the patient's county of residence. To assist the hospital in determining whether the patient is subject to involuntary hospitalization and whether alternative services are available, the board or an agency the board designates promptly shall assess the patient unless the board or agency already has performed such assessment, or unless the commitment is pursuant to section 2945.38, ...

...is consistent with treatment goals is inpatient hospitalization, the court's order shall so state. (F) During the ninety-day period the entity or person shall examine and treat the respondent. If the respondent is receiving treatment in an outpatient setting, or receives treatment in an outpatient setting during a subsequent period of continued commitment under division (H) of this section, the entity or person to ...

...o court order or becomes an involuntary patient other than one who is a patient only for purposes of observation, the probate judge who made the adjudication or the chief clinical officer of the hospital, community mental health services provider, or facility in which the person is an involuntary patient shall notify the office of the attorney general, on the form described in division (C) of this section, of the ide...

... utilization review including access to patient care records, patient care assessment records, and medical and mental health records, medical and mental health resource management, mortality and morbidity review, and identification and prevention of medical or mental health incidents and risks, whether performed by a quality assurance committee or by persons who are directed by a quality assurance committee. (4) "Qu...

...h respect to a mental health client or patient and except as otherwise provided in section 2305.51 of the Revised Code, no person shall be liable for any harm that results to any other person as a result of failing to disclose any confidential information about the mental health client or patient, or failing to otherwise attempt to protect such other person from harm by such client or patient. (C) This section...

...able to reasonably ascertain, for every patient who was buried, entombed, or inurned prior to March 31, 2005, in a cemetery located on the grounds of or adjacent to the grounds of a public hospital: (1) Name; (2) Date of birth; (3) Date of death or burial; (4) Specific physical location of the burial, entombment, or inurnment, including the plot or grave site number if available. (B) "Patient" means an indiv...

..., the probate judge shall see that each patient hospitalized under section 5123.76 of the Revised Code is properly attired for transportation, and, in addition, the institution shall be furnished a complete change of clothing for such patient, which shall be paid for on the certificate of the probate judge and the order of the county auditor from the county treasury. Such clothing shall be new or as good as new.

...odes) for those procedures for when the patient is in a residence or other off-site location from the patient's medicaid provider. (B) The coverage under division (A) of this section applies only under the following circumstances: (1) The medicaid provider responsible for the procedure uses digital technology that meets both of the following criteria: (a) The technology is used only to collect medical and ot...

...Ohio children's hospital solutions for patient safety, which was formed for the purpose of improving pediatric patient care in this state, which performs functions that are included within the functions of a peer review committee as defined in section 2305.25 of the Revised Code, and which consists of all of the following members: Akron children's hospital, Cincinnati children's hospital medical center, Clevel...

... 5168.56 of the Revised Code. (X) "Inpatient days" means both of the following: (1) All days during which a resident, regardless of payment source, occupies a licensed bed in a nursing facility; (2) Fifty per cent of the days for which payment is made under section 5165.34 of the Revised Code. (Y) "Involuntary termination" means the department of medicaid's termination of the operator's provider agreement...