Ohio Revised Code Search

...(A)(1) The department of health shall create a Down syndrome information sheet that includes all of the following: (a) A description of Down syndrome, including its causes, effects on development, and potential complications; (b) Diagnostic tests; (c) Options for treatment and therapy; (d) Contact information for local, state, and national organizations that provide Down syndrome educational and support servi...

...(A) The director of health shall establish guidelines for a state-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 communicat...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, public children services agency, private child placing agency, or agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a child whose death is being reviewed by the director of health pursua...

...(A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to the director of health 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 parti...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and sections 5153.171 to 5153.173 of the Revised Code, any information, document, or report presented to the director of health 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 sha...

...To comply with the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950, known as Public Law 734-81st Congress, the Ohio department of health is hereby designated as the state authority responsible for establishing and maintaining minimum standards for voluntary and governmental hospitals and in units providing medical and nursing care in city and county institutions.

...Subject to the provisions of sections 119.01 to 119.13 inclusive, of the Revised Code, the Ohio department of health shall have the power to adopt reasonable rules and regulations to establish and maintain such minimum standards.

...Sections 3701.71 and 3701.72 of the Revised Code shall not be applicable to institutions licensed or approved under other existing statutes.

...(A) As used in this section and section 3701.741 of the Revised Code: (1) "Ambulatory care facility" means a facility that provides medical, diagnostic, or surgical treatment to patients who do not require hospitalization, including a dialysis center, ambulatory surgical facility, cardiac catheterization facility, diagnostic imaging center, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy center, home health agency, inpatien...

...(A) Each health care provider and medical records company shall provide copies of medical records in accordance with this section. (B) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (E) of this section, a health care provider or medical records company that receives a request for a copy of a patient's medical record shall charge not more than the amounts set forth in this section. (1)(a) Except as provided in division...

...The amounts specified in division (B) of section 3701.741 of the Revised Code shall be adjusted annually in accordance with this section. These amounts plus any amounts previously computed by annual adjustments made under this section shall be increased or decreased by the average percentage of increase or decrease in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (United States city average, all items), prep...

... device. (3) The entity takes steps to safeguard against unauthorized access to the system and forgery of electronic signatures. (4) The system includes a process to verify that the individual affixing the electronic signature has reviewed the contents of the entry and determined that the entry contains what that individual intended. (5) The policy adopted by the entity pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section ...

...(A) The director of health shall establish and maintain a statewide public information campaign on the effects of diethylstilbestrol or other nonsteroidal synthetic estrogens for the purpose of educating the public concerning the potential hazards related to exposure to diethylstilbestrol or other nonsteroidal synthetic estrogens and encouraging persons exposed to diethylstilbestrol or other nonsteroidal synthetic es...

...(A) The department of health may establish, promote, and maintain a lupus education and awareness program with an emphasis on at-risk communities to raise public awareness, educate consumers, and educate and train health professionals, human services providers, and other audiences. (B) The department, in creating and implementing the program, may do all of the following: (1) Provide sufficient staff and appropriate...

...(A)(1) The department of health may conduct a needs assessment to identify all of the following: (a) The level of statewide health professional and public awareness about lupus; (b) The existence of lupus education, awareness, and treatment programs and related technical assistance available in the state and nationwide; (c) The lupus-related educational and support service needs of health care providers in t...

...(A) The department of health may establish a program to award grants to educate and train physicians, health professionals, and other service providers on the most current, accurate scientific and medical information on lupus diagnosis, treatment, and therapeutic decision-making, including medical best practices for detecting and treating the disease in special populations, risks and benefits of medications, an...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the lupus education and awareness program fund. If the department of health establishes the lupus education and awareness program, as authorized under section 3701.77 of the Revised Code, all moneys accepted under division (C) of that section shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund shall be used solely to administer the lupus education and awareness program...

...(A) There is hereby created the commission on minority health, consisting of twenty-two members. The governor shall appoint to the commission nine members from among health researchers, health planners, and health professionals. The governor also shall appoint two members who are representatives of the lupus awareness and education program. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint to the commission t...

...(A) As used in this section and in sections 3701.791 and 3701.792 of the Revised Code : (1) "Abortion" has the same meaning as in section 2919.11 of the Revised Code. (2) "Abortion report" means a form completed pursuant to division (C) of this section. (3) "Ambulatory surgical facility" has the same meaning as in section 3702.30 of the Revised Code. (4) "Department" means the department of health. (5) "Hos...

...(A) As used in this section, "medical emergency" means a condition of a pregnant woman that, in the reasonable judgment of the physician who is attending the woman, creates an immediate threat of serious risk to the life or physical health of the woman from the continuation of the pregnancy necessitating the immediate performance or inducement of an abortion. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this sec...

...(A) The director of health shall develop a child survival form to be submitted to the department of health in accordance with division (B) of this section each time a child is born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. In developing the form, the director may consult with obstetricians, maternal-fetal specialists, or any other professionals the director considers appropriate. The form shall include areas for...

...The department of health shall cooperate with the director of children and youth when the director promulgates rules pursuant to Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code governing the health and sanitary practices of meal preparation and service for type A family child care homes, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, recommend procedures for inspecting type A family child care homes to determine whether they a...

...(A) No person, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the person has a dangerous, contagious disease, shall knowingly fail to take reasonable measures to prevent exposing self to other persons, except when seeking medical aid. (B) No person, having charge or care of a person whom the person having charge or care knows or has reasonable cause to believe has a dangerous, contagious disease, shall reckless...

...at is equipped with an oxygen depletion safety shutoff system, and that has its fuel piped from a source outside of the building in which it is located, that are approved by an authoritative source recognized by the state fire marshal in the state fire code adopted by him under section 3737.82 of the Revised Code. (E) The state fire marshal may make rules to ensure the safe use of unvented kerosene, natural gas, or ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the general operations fund. Moneys in the fund shall be used for the purposes specified in sections 3701.04, 3701.344, 3711.16, 3717.45, 3718.06, 3721.02, 3721.022, 3729.07, 3733.43, 3748.04, 3748.05, 3748.07, 3748.12, 3748.13, 3749.04, 3749.07, 3776.08, and 4769.09 of the Revised Code.