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...ed nurse-midwife, or other person in attendance at childbirth shall, immediately after the birth, use in the eyes of the newborn child some prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes of such child, and shall make a record on the birth certificate of the prophylactic used.

...ers and employees of the state or any county, city, or township, shall enforce quarantine and isolation orders, and the rules the department of health adopts.

... to the credit of the general revenue fund. The director of health, the board of health of a general or city health district, or any person charged with enforcing the rules of the department of health as provided in section 3701.56 of the Revised Code may petition the court of common pleas for injunctive or other appropriate relief requiring any person violating a rule adopted by or any order issued by the di...

...eposited into the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created under section 3701.83 of the Revised Code.

...The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all violations of sections 3701.51 to 3701.55 and 3705.01 to 3705.29 of the Revised Code.

...n services: (1) Physicians authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery; (2) Registered nurses licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code, including certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse practitioners, and licensed practical nurses licensed under that chapter; (3) Physician assistants licensed un...

...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.

...ctly to the fund in addition to or independently of the income tax refund contribution system established in section 5747.113 of the Revised Code. The director of health shall distribute the contributed funds to the Ohio breast and cervical cancer project administered under section 3701.144 of the Revised Code. The contributed funds shall be used specifically for the provision of breast and cervical cancer screenin...

... is exempt from federal income taxation under subsection 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (2) For at least ten years before September 29, 2015, the primary purpose of the nonprofit corporation, or the nonprofit corporation's predecessor in interest, has been granting the wishes of individuals under the age of eighteen who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. (3) The nonprofit corp...

...alth care facilities. (2) To be eligible to participate in the grant program, an entity must demonstrate to the department that it can meet all of the following requirements: (a) Has space to host groups of at least twelve pregnant women; (b) Has adequate in-kind resources, including existing medical staff, to provide necessary prenatal health care services on both an individual and group basis; (c) Provides ...

...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) A physi...

...tate-level review of deaths of children under eighteen years of age who, at the time of death, were residents of this state. (B) The purpose of a review conducted pursuant to guidelines adopted under this section is to decrease the incidence of preventable child deaths by doing all of the following: (1) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities th...

...t shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from the child's medical record created by the health care entity. (b) With respect to a request made to any other individual or entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from any record involving the child that the individual or entity develops in the normal course of business. (c) On the request of the di...

...alth pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code is immune from civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, document, or reports to the director. (B) Each person participating in a review conducted pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code is i...

...alth pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code, all statements made by persons participating in a review conducted pursuant to those guidelines, and all work products of the director are confidential and shall be used by the director only in the exercise of the proper functions of the department of health. (B) The director may disclose the confidential information described in divi...

...nd maintaining minimum standards for voluntary and governmental hospitals and in units providing medical and nursing care in city and county institutions.

...h shall have the power to adopt reasonable rules and regulations to establish and maintain such minimum standards.

...le to institutions licensed or approved under other existing statutes.

...de; (d) A dispensing optician, spectacle dispensing optician, or spectacle-contact lens dispensing optician licensed under Chapter 4725. of the Revised Code; (e) A pharmacist licensed under Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code; (f) A physician; (g) A physician assistant authorized under Chapter 4730. of the Revised Code to practice as a physician assistant; (h) A practitioner of a limited branch of medicine is...

...elated to those copies shall be reasonable, cost-based amounts permitted to be charged to the patient under federal laws and regulations. Any per page charges shall not exceed the sum of the per page charges authorized in division (B)(2)(b) and (c) of this section. (b) If the request is made by a person identified in division (B)(1)(a) of this section and the request is for access to digital records or electronica...

...lable to the public on the internet web site maintained by the department of health.

...ectronic record by an individual to authenticate the record: (a) A code consisting of a combination of letters, numbers, characters, or symbols that is adopted or executed by an individual as that individual's electronic signature; (b) A computer-generated signature code created for an individual; (c) An electronic image of an individual's handwritten signature created by using a pen computer. (3) "Health care re...

...fectiveness of the programs established under this section, and shall make recommendations concerning the programs and possible legislation relating to them. (E) No insurance company doing business under Title XXXIX and no health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code shall cancel or refuse to renew a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement or limit benef...

... (B) The department, in creating and implementing the program, may do all of the following: (1) Provide sufficient staff and appropriate training to implement the program; (2) Establish a grant program to support nonprofit voluntary health organizations with expertise in lupus to increase public awareness and enhance health professional education and understanding of the symptoms and consequences of lupus and the p...

...pus, families, representatives from voluntary organizations, health professionals, health plans, and state and local health agencies. (B) The department may undertake activities to raise public awareness about the symptoms of lupus, personal risk factors, and options for diagnosing and treating the disease with a particular focus on populations at elevated risk for lupus. Such activities may include, but are n...