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...The department of medicaid may offset the amount of a hospital's unpaid penalty imposed under section 5168.99 of the Revised Code from one or more payments due the hospital under the medicaid program. The total amount that may be offset from one or more payments shall not exceed the amount of the unpaid penalty.

...ead start, preschool special education, publicly funded child care, and the step up to quality program; (4) Maternal and child physical health, including, but not limited to, infant vitality, home visiting, maternal and child health, maternal and infant support, and Medicaid-funded child health services.

...ting, disbursing, or accounting for any funds awarded; (6) Any other action as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (B) Whenever by law a duty is imposed on or an action is required of the department, the director or director's designee shall fulfill the duty or perform the action. (C) The director may organize the department for its efficient operation, including by creating as necessary any...

...dministered by local or community-based public or private entities and, to the extent they do not, whether they should. (3) With assistance from academic medical centers, track and analyze infant mortality rates by county for the purpose of determining the impact of state and local initiatives to reduce those rates. (C) The commission shall consist of the following members: (1) Two members of the senate, one...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Preliminary infant mortality and preterm birth rates" means infant mortality and preterm birth rates that are derived from vital records as defined in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code, are not considered finalized by the department of health, and are subject to modification as additional birth and death data are received by the department and added to vital records. (2) "Sti...

...(A) As used in this section, "stillbirth" means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception of at least twenty weeks of gestation, which after such expulsion or extraction does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. (B) The director of children a...

...eal time on a data dashboard to be made publicly available. (C) The scorecard shall include a description of the data sources and methodology used to complete the scorecard.

...(A) As used in this section and sections 5180.15, 5180.16, and 5180.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child care center," "type A family child care home," and "licensed type B family child care home" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Child care facility" means a child care center, a type A family child care home, or a licensed type B family child care home. (3) "Foster caregiv...

..., to each of its employees; (6) By a public children services agency, when the agency has initial contact with an infant's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant. (B) An entity or person required to distribute educational materials pursuant to division (A) of this section is not liable for damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly arises from...

...(A) As used in this section, "sudden unexpected infant death" means the death of an infant that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, the cause of which is not immediately obvious prior to investigation. (B) The department of children and youth shall establish the safe sleep education program by doing all of the following: (1) Developing educational materials that present readily comprehendible information on safe ...

...e of charge from that source; (4) If funds are available for the cribs for kids program or a successor program administered by the department of children and youth, refer the parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant to a site, designated by the department for purposes of the program, at which a safe crib may be obtained at no charge. If a safe crib is procured as described in division (C)(1)...

...The director of children and youth shall require each recipient of a grant the department of children and youth administers that pertains to safe crib procurement to report annually to the department both of the following: (A) Demographic information specified by the director of children and youth regarding the individuals to whom safe cribs were distributed; (B) If known, the extent to which distributed cribs ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a population-based questionnaire designed to examine maternal behaviors and experiences before, during, and after a woman's pregnancy, as well as during the early infancy of the woman's child. The questionnaire shall collect information that is similar to the information collected by the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system (PRAMS) questionnaire that the de...

...al reporting requirements for federally funded home visiting services. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...erhood commission, and children's trust fund board, to implement the help me grow program, to ensure coordination of early childhood programs, and to maximize reimbursement for the help me grow program from any federal source. In addition to creating the central intake and referral system as described in section 5180.22 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall ensure there is a consistent co...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a central intake and referral system for all home visiting programs operating in this state. Through a competitive bidding process, the department of children and youth may select one or more persons or government entities to operate the system. In its oversight of the one or more system operators, the department shall streamline the system to ensure families and ...

...abilities regarding how to leverage all funding sources available for home visiting services, including medicaid, to accomplish both of the following in this state: (i) Expand the use of evidence-based home visiting program models, including models used by home visiting contractors who provide services within one or more community HUBs that fully or substantially comply with the pathways community HUB certificatio...

...and youth shall facilitate and allocate funds for a biennial summit on home visiting programs. The purpose of each summit is to convene persons and government entities involved with the delivery of home visiting services in this state, as well as other interested persons, to do all of the following: (A) Share the latest research on evidence-based and innovative, promising home visiting models; (B) Discuss strat...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall develop educational materials describing the health risks of lead-based paint and measures that may be taken to reduce those risks. (B) As part of the home visiting services described in section 5180.21 of the Revised Code, each eligible family residing in a house, apartment, or other residence built before January 1, 1979, shall receive a copy of the educational mate...

...The department of children and youth shall serve as the "lead agency," as described by 20 U.S.C. 1435(a)(10), to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, through which early intervention services are provided to eligible infants and toddlers in accordance with part C of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 20 U.S.C. 1431 et seq., and regulations implementing that part in 34 C.F....

...ood programs; (B) Distribute program funds through contracts, grants, or subsidies to entities that are program service providers; (C) Establish a system of payment to program service providers.

...The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, including rules that specify all of the following: (A) Eligibility requirements to receive program services; (B) Eligibility requirements to be a program service provider; (C) Operating standards and procedures for pro...

...child's data verification code is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

...The governor shall establish the early intervention services advisory council, which shall serve as the state interagency coordinating council, as described in 20 U.S.C. 1441. In establishing the council, the governor shall comply with the requirements of 20 U.S.C. 1441, including the requirement to ensure that the membership of the council reasonably represents the population of the state. The governor shall appo...

...ion with the state director, act as the public representatives of the Dolly Parton's imagination library of Ohio; (5) Not sooner than July 1, 2025, and subject to funds appropriated by the general assembly for that purpose, enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Dollywood foundation to operate Dolly Parton's imagination library of Ohio for the fiscal biennium that begins on that date; (6) Enter into a...