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...(A) In addition to providing accommodations, supervision, and personal care services to its residents, a residential care facility may do the following: (1) Provide the following skilled nursing care to its residents: (a) Supervision of special diets; (b) Application of dressings, in accordance with rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code; (c) Subject to division (B)(1) of this section, admin...

...A residential care facility may enter into a risk agreement with a resident or the resident's sponsor. Under a risk agreement, the resident or sponsor and the facility agree to share responsibility for making and implementing decisions affecting the scope and quantity of services provided by the facility to the resident. The facility also agrees to identify the risks inherent in a decision made by a resident or spons...

...diting the inspection. The fee shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code and used solely for expediting inspections. (C) A single facility may be licensed both as a nursing home pursuant to this chapter and as a residential facility pursuant to section 5119.34 of the Revised Code if the director determines that the part or u...

...ding such reports that result from life safety code and health inspections during the preceding three years, and shall post prominently within the home a notice of this requirement.

...d under this section. The fee shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code for use in the implementation of this section. The second review shall be conducted by either of the following as selected by the facility: a hearing officer employed by the department or a hearing officer included on a list the department shall pr...

...Where a nursing home licensed under this Chapter is operated in a building that was leased pursuant to a written lease agreement entered into on or before January 1, 1970, and where the lease agreement does not expressly determine or state the identity of the party that owns the nursing home business, operating rights, certificate of need, or legal rights associated with ownership and operation of the nursing home be...

...As used in this section, "nursing facility" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. The department of health may establish a program of recognition of nursing facilities that provide the highest quality care to residents who are medicaid recipients. The program may be funded with public funds appropriated by the general assembly for the purpose of the program or any funds appropriated f...

...(A) Before the director of health can issue a license to operate a nursing home to an entering operator, all of the following requirements must be satisfied: (1) The entering operator completes a change of operator license application on a form prescribed by the director and pays the applicable fee as determined by the director. Any fee required by the director under division (A)(1) of this section shall be cre...

...(A) As used in this section, "survey" has the same meaning as in section 5165.60 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of health shall investigate within ten working days after referral, in accordance with procedures and criteria to be established by the department of health and the department of aging, any unresolved complaint that the office of the state long-term care ombudsman has investigated and found ...

...(A) As used in this section, "person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall enforce the provisions of sections 3721.01 to 3721.13 and 3721.99 of the Revised Code and may issue orders to secure compliance with the provisions of these sections and the rules adopted under them. The director may hold hearings, issue subpoenas, compel testimony, and make adjudicatio...

...(A) The director of health may investigate any complaint the director receives concerning a home. (1) Except as required by court order, as necessary for the administration or enforcement of any statute relating to homes, or as provided in division (C) of this section, the director and any employee of the department of health shall not release any of the following information without the permission of the individual...

... statutes and rules pertaining to fire safety in homes and shall adopt rules pertaining to fire safety in homes as the marshal determines necessary. The rules adopted by the marshal shall be in addition to those fire safety rules that the board of building standards and the director of health are empowered to adopt. In the event of a dispute between the marshal and another officer having responsibilities under...

... are housed so as to ensure healthful, safe, sanitary, and comfortable conditions for all residents, so long as they are not inconsistent with Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code or with any rules adopted by the board of building standards and by the state fire marshal; (2) The number and qualifications of personnel, including management and nursing staff, for each class of home, and the qualification...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advisory committee" means the advisory committee on immunization practices of the United States centers for disease control and prevention or a successor committee or agency. (2) "Certified nurse-midwife," "clinical nurse specialist," and "certified nurse practitioner" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Physician" means an individual authoriz...

...The director of health may not deny a nursing home license to a facility seeking a license under this chapter as a nursing home on the grounds that the facility does not satisfy a requirement established in rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code regarding the toilet rooms and dining and recreational areas of nursing homes if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The facility seeks a ...

...No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation shall: (A) Operate a home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code without obtaining a license from the director of health; (B) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (C) Operate a home after the license for such has been revoked by the director of health; (D) Interfere with the ins...

...No county home or district home licensed under section 3721.07 of the Revised Code shall do any of the following: (A) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (B) Continue operation after its license has been revoked by the director of health; (C) Fail to be open for an inspection, or interfere with an inspection, by a state or local official performi...

...No public official or employee shall place any person in, or recommend that any person be placed in, or directly or indirectly cause any person to be placed in any home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code which is being operated without a license from the director of health or from a political subdivision certified pursuant to section 3721.09 of the Revised Code.

...dized a resident's health, welfare, or safety nor has the applicant had a long-standing pattern of violations of this chapter or rules adopted under it that caused physical, emotional, mental, or psychosocial harm to one or more residents. (D) The buildings in which the home is housed have been approved by the state fire marshal or a township, municipal, or other legally constituted fire department approved by...

... are otherwise in compliance with fire safety laws and regulations and: (A) The home within thirty days after August 4, 1975, files a written plan with the state fire marshal's office that: (1) Outlines the interim safety procedures which shall be carried out to reduce the possibility of a fire; (2) Provides evidence that the home has entered into an agreement for a fire safety inspection to be conducted not ...

...ead paging for matters of urgent public safety or urgent clinical operations. The nursing home shall develop a written policy regarding its use of overhead paging and make the policy available to staff, residents, and residents' families.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Independent living facility" has the same meaning as in section 5709.12 of the Revised Code. (2) "Residential facility" has the same meaning as in section 5119.34 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, an independent living facility or residential facility that applies to the director of health pursuant to section 3721.07 ...

...(A) The director of health may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the home is located for an order enjoining any person from operating a home without a license or enjoining a county home or district home that has had its license revoked from continuing to operate. The court shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunctive relief upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is operat...

...s collected under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created by section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. (F) A home subject to an order or action under this section may request a hearing under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The request must be received by the director within fifteen days after the notice of the order was mailed. If the home timely reque...

...Sections 3721.02, 3721.03, 3721.04, 3721.05, 3721.051, 3721.07, and 3721.08 of the Revised Code and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto are not applicable in political subdivisions which the director of health, by annual certification, determines have adopted and are enforcing their own standards which are equal to or greater in their requirements than those of sections 3721.02, 3721.03, 3721.04, 3721.05, 3721.0...