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...at has been approved by the director of health under division (B) of section 3701.241 of the Revised Code. (5) "Health care facility" has the same meaning as in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code. (6) "Director" means the director of health or any employee of the department of health acting on the director's behalf. (7) "Physician" means a person authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice m...

...ty leaders, education programs for the public; (5) Pilot programs for the long-term care of individuals with AIDS or AIDS-related condition, including care in nursing homes and in alternative settings; (6) Programs to expand regional outpatient treatment of individuals with AIDS or AIDS-related condition; (7) A program to assist communities, including communities of less than one hundred thousand population, ...

...n an individual by or on the order of a health care provider if the individual or the individual's parent or guardian has given general consent to the provider for medical or other health care treatment and if the health care provider or an authorized representative of the health care provider has notified the individual that the HIV test is planned. The notification may be verbal or written, in person or electronic,...

...ested and against any disservice to the public interest that might result from the disclosure, such as discrimination against the individual or the deterrence of others from being tested. (c) If the court issues an order, it shall guard against unauthorized disclosure by specifying the persons who may have access to the information, the purposes for which the information shall be used, and prohibitions against futu...

...orting requirement of the department of health or any federal agency. (H) No person with knowledge that an individual other than himself has or may have AIDS, and AIDS-related condition, or a positive HIV test shall be held liable for failing to disclose that information to any person unless disclosure is expressly required by law.

...IDS-related condition to an appropriate health care provider or facility, if the referral is based on reasonable professional judgment and not solely on grounds of the refusal of the individual to consent to an HIV test or to disclose the result of an HIV test.

...Any human body part donated for transplantation, including an organ, tissue, eye, bone, artery, or other part, and any body fluid donated for transfusion or injection into another person, including blood, plasma, a blood product, semen, or other fluid, shall be given an HIV test before being transplanted, transfused, or injected to determine that the part or fluid is not infected with the HIV virus unless, in an emer...

...posed to HIV infection while rendering health or emergency care to the other person; (b) A peace officer who believes the peace officer may have been exposed to HIV infection while dealing with the other person in the performance of official duties. (2) The complaint in the action shall be accompanied by an affidavit in which the plaintiff attests to all of the following: (a) While rendering health or emergen...

...ied in rules adopted by the director of health pursuant to division (F) of this section. (2) "Patient" means either of the following: (a) A person, whether alive or dead, who has been treated, or handled, or transported for medical care by an emergency medical services worker; (b) A deceased person whose body is handled by a funeral services worker. (3) "Significant exposure" means: (a) A percutaneous or muc...

...(A) As used in this section, "employer" and "employee" have the same meanings as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The employer of a person with HIV infection is immune from liability to any person in a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property on a claim arising out of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from the infected employee to another employee or to any ...

...e date of this section, the director of health shall establish and maintain a Parkinson's disease registry for the collection and monitoring of the incidence of Parkinson's disease in Ohio. (C) The director shall supervise the registry and the collection and dissemination of data included in the registry. The director may enter into contracts, grants, or other agreements as necessary to maintain the registry, incl...

... (E) This section does not prohibit the publication of reports and aggregate statistical data by the director that do not identify individual cases or individual sources of data.

...(4) A physician informaticist; (5) A public health professional; (6) A population health researcher familiar with disease registries; (7) A Parkinson'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...

...nd annually thereafter, the director of health shall submit a report to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code summarizing the following: (A) The incidence of Parkinson's disease in Ohio by county; (B) The number of new cases reported to the Parkinson's disease registry in the previous year; (C) Demographic information including age, gender, and race.

...The director of health shall describe the registry and provide any information regarding the registry the director deems relevant on the department of health's internet web site.

...The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to specify the data to be collected and the format in which it is to be submitted to the registry.

...e federal government or other sources, public or private, for carrying out any of the functions enumerated in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section. (C) The Ohio cancer incidence surveillance system shall follow a model of cancer data collection as set forth by the survey epidemiology and end results system (SEERS). (D) The department may, by contract, designate a state university as an agent to implement s...

...artment may use information compiled by public or private cancer registries and may contract for the collection and analysis of, and research related to, the information recorded under this section. (D)(1) Each physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, dentist, hospital, or person providing diagnostic or treatment services to patients with cancer shall report each...

...res for its prevention, the director of health may appoint a medical or sanitary officer and such assistants as he may require, and authorize him to enforce such orders or regulations as the director deems necessary.

...her measures to protect and improve the public health. Each board of health or other body or person appointed or acting in place of a board of health shall appoint its health commissioner or health officer a delegate to such conferences. The district board of health shall pay the necessary expenses of such delegate upon presentation of a certificate from the director of health that the delegate attended the sessions ...

...The department of health may devise a suitable program for establishing a blood bank for civilian use, embracing if necessary, methods for the registration of blood donors, for the collection of blood from donors, for the processing or procurement of blood plasma or other substitutes for whole blood, and for the distribution of pool blood, blood plasma, or other blood substitutes to meet civilian needs, to communitie...

...e blood bank program, the department of health may establish necessary standards, promulgate necessary rules and regulations, utilize the facilities and services of other official agencies and of voluntary organizations which may be made available to the department, and co-operate, if requested, with agencies and organizations engaged in a similar program on a local or state basis.

...cting the business of the department of health shall be provided and maintained by the state.

...There is hereby created the Ohio public health advisory board. The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The following members appointed by the director of health from among individuals who are not employed by the state and are recommended by statewide trade or professional organizations that represent interests in public health: (a) One individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code ...

...(A) The Ohio public health advisory board shall review and make recommendations to the director of health on all of the following: (1) Developing and adopting proposed rules under Chapters 3701 and 3717 of the Administrative Code; (2) Prescribing proposed fees for services provided by the office of vital statistics and the bureau of environmental health; (3) Any proposed policy changes that pertain to entiti...