Ohio Revised Code Search

...cians, or dentists and their clients or patients; and transactions between veterinarians and their patients that pertain to medical treatment but not ancillary services. (B) "Person" includes an individual, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, cooperative, or other legal entity. (C) "Supplier" means a seller, lessor, assignor, fran...

...ities, diagnostic and treatment and out-patient facilities, facilities related to programs for home health services, clinics, laboratories, public health centers, research facilities, and rehabilitation facilities, for or pertaining to diagnosis, treatment, care, or rehabilitation of persons who are sick, ill, injured, infirm, or impaired or who have disabilities, or the prevention, detection, and control of disease,...

...r arrange for extended care services to patients of a hospital of such public hospital agency when such services are medically appropriate for them. Such agreements may require such extended care services to be provided under the supervision of the professional staff of the hospital of such public hospital agency or, where such facility in which the extended care is to be provided has an organized medical staff, for ...

...s, prognosis, or medical condition of a patient and that is generated and maintained in the process of medical treatment. (4) "Trial preparation record" means any record that contains information that is specifically compiled in reasonable anticipation of, or in defense of, a civil or criminal action or proceeding, including the independent thought processes and personal trial preparation of an attorney. (5) "I...

...o know is contrary to the wishes of the patient or of a person who is lawfully authorized to make informed medical decisions on the patient's behalf.

... the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients of free clinics and centers, as defined in division (D) of this section. (B) A free clinic or federally qualified health center look-alike is eligible to receive reimbursement under the medical liability insurance reimbursement program for the premiums that the clinic or center pays for medical liability insurance coverage for the clinic or center, its staff, an...

...of the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship. (B) A physician is not liable in damages in a civil action for harm that allegedly is incurred by an employee as a result of the physician reporting any of the following to the employer of the employee: (1) The physician has determined that the employee is using a drug of abuse dispensed pursuant to a prescription and that the employee's use of the drug ...

... exposed person and has or had a doctor-patient relationship with the person. (3) As the basis for the diagnosis, the medical doctor has not relied, in whole or in part, on any of the following: (a) The reports or opinions of any doctor, clinic, laboratory, or testing company that performed an examination, test, or screening of the claimant's medical condition in violation of any law, regulation, licensing requirem...

... exposed person and has or had a doctor-patient relationship with the person. (3) As the basis for the diagnosis, the medical doctor has not relied, in whole or in part, on any of the following: (a) The reports or opinions of any doctor, clinic, laboratory, or testing company that performed an examination, test, or screening of the claimant's medical condition in violation of any law, regulation, licensing requirem...

...er standard under any provision of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 124 Stat. 119 (2010), 42 U.S.C. 18001 et seq., as amended, Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq., as amended, and Title XIX of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq., as amended, shall not be construed to establish the standard of care or duty of care owed by a health care provider to a patient i...

...n 2907.13 of the Revised Code: (i) A patient who was the victim of the violation; (ii) The spouse or surviving spouse of a patient who was the victim of the violation; (iii) Any child born as a result of the violation. (6) A prosecution for a violation of division (A)(1) or (4) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, which is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, or a misdemeanor of the first degree under ...

...his section is guilty of filing a false patient abuse or neglect complaint, a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...d the offense against a child, student, patient, or other person with whom the offender had contact in the context of the offender's public employment, at the request of the victim the prosecutor shall file a motion with the sentencing court specifying the government deferred compensation program, alternative retirement plan, or public retirement system and requesting that the court issue an order requiring the gover...

... court order, and is not an involuntary patient other than one who is a patient only for purposes of observation, as described in division (D)(1)(i) of that section; is not currently subject to a civil protection order, a temporary protection order, or a protection order issued by a court of another state, as described in division (D)(1)(j) of that section; is not currently subject to a suspension imposed under divis...

...ily basis. (5) "Trial visit" means a patient privilege of a longer stated duration of unsupervised community contact with an expectation of return to the hospital or institution at designated times. (6) "Conditional release" means a commitment status under which the trial court at any time may revoke a person's conditional release and order the rehospitalization or reinstitutionalization of the person as descri...

...all be construed to waive the physician-patient or advanced practice registered nurse-patient privilege provided by section 2317.02 of the Revised Code. Falsification of a statement is grounds for suspension or termination of employment under sections 3311.82, 3319.081, and 3319.16 of the Revised Code. No sick leave shall be granted or credited to a teacher after the teacher's retirement or termination of employment....

...which a county hospital regularly draws patients. (2) "Appointing authority" means the board of county commissioners, the probate judge of the county senior in point of service, and the judge, other than the probate judge of the county senior in point of service, of the court of common pleas of the county senior in point of service. (B) Unless a board of county hospital trustees for the county is in existence in ...

...in this state shall keep records of all patients who receive medical, dental, or other health-related diagnosis, care, or treatment at the shelter or facility. The department of health shall monitor the quality of care provided to patients at nonprofit shelters or health care facilities. The monitoring program may be conducted by contracting with another entity or through any other method authorized by law. The depar...

... (1) Establish a system for identifying patients or residents who could benefit from palliative care; (2) Provide information on palliative care to patients and residents who could benefit from palliative care. (B) Division (A) of this section applies to all of the following: (1) A hospital registered under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code; (2) An ambulatory surgical facility, as defined in section 3702.30...

...ombination of documents pertaining to a patient's medical history, diagnosis, prognosis, or medical condition that is generated and maintained in the process of the patient's treatment. (B) All notes, orders, and observations entered into a health care record, including any interpretive reports of diagnostic tests or specific treatments, such as radiologic or electrocardiographic reports, operative reports, reports ...

...ns a clinical laboratory that refers a patient specimen to another clinical laboratory for an anatomic pathology service, but excludes a laboratory in the office of one or more physicians that refers a specimen and does not perform the professional component of the anatomic pathology service, as that component is defined in section 4731.72 of the Revised Code. (K) "Subcellular or molecular pathology" means ...

...by a hospital and is designed to accept patients for rehabilitation after an in-patient hospital stay; (9) Whether the long-term care facility in which the beds will be placed is or proposes to become a nurse aide training and testing site; (10) The rating, under the centers for medicare and medicaid services' five star nursing home quality rating system, of the long-term care facility in which the beds will be...

...o the system information concerning all patients under five years of age with a primary diagnosis of a congenital anomaly or abnormal condition. The director shall not require a hospital, freestanding birthing center, physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner to report to the system any information that is reported to the director or department of health under anot...

...is used exclusively for care of hospice patients or any other facility in which a hospice care program provides care for hospice patients. (B) During any declared disaster, epidemic, pandemic, public health emergency, or public safety emergency, each long-term care facility shall provide residents and their families with a video-conference visitation option if the governor, the director of health, other government ...

...e appropriate trauma centers all trauma patients in the hospital to whom the hospital is not permitted to provide trauma care. (b) Promptly comply with section 3727.10 of the Revised Code according to its current status. (c) Not later than one hundred eighty days after ceasing to operate under provisional status, comply with section 3727.09 of the Revised Code according to its current status. (3) A hospital that c...