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...The director of health shall collect information about violent deaths in Ohio only from existing sources related to violent crimes and shall not conduct independent criminal investigations in order to obtain information, data, or records for use by the Ohio violent death reporting system.

...At the request of the director of health, every department, agency, and political subdivision of the state shall provide information, data, records, and otherwise assist in the execution of sections 3701.93 to 3701.9314 of the Revised Code.

...At the request of the director of health, any individual or entity not specified in section 3701.936 of the Revised Code, at the individual's or entity's discretion, may provide information, data, records, and otherwise assist in the execution of sections 3701.93 to 3701.9314 of the Revised Code. Any information, data, and records provided to the director by any other individual or entity shall contain only inf...

...Notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, public social service agency, or public agency that provides services to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, coroner, or public entity that provided services to an individual whose death is the type of death specified by the director of health under section 3701.934 of the Revised Code shall provide infor...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3701.9212 of the Revised Code, all of the following are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, shall be confidential, and shall be published only in statistical form: (A) Information, data, and records collected for use and maintained by the Ohio violent death reporting system including, but not limited to, medical records, law enforcement investiga...

...Information, data, and records collected for use and maintained by, and all work products created in carrying out the purposes of, the Ohio violent death reporting system shall not be subject to subpoena or discovery while in the possession of the system or admissible in any criminal or civil proceeding if obtained through, or from, the system.

...The director of health, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall establish standards and procedures to make available to researchers confidential information collected by the Ohio violent death reporting system. Researchers complying with those standards and procedures also shall comply with the confidentiality requirements of section 3701.9310 of the Revised Code.

...The director of health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary to establish, maintain, and carry out the purposes of the Ohio violent death reporting system under sections 3701.93 to 3701.9314 of the Revised Code.

...There is hereby established the patient centered medical home program in the department of health. The patient centered medical home model of care is an advanced model of primary care in which care teams attend to the multifaceted needs of patients, providing whole person comprehensive and coordinated patient centered care.

...(A) As part of the patient centered medical home program established under section 3701.94 of the Revised Code, the department of health shall establish a voluntary patient centered medical home certification program. (B) Each primary care practice, that seeks a patient centered medical home certificate shall submit an application on a form prepared by the department. The department may require an application...

...(A) Each certified patient centered medical home shall report health care quality and performance information to the department of health, including any data necessary for monitoring compliance with certification standards and for evaluating the impact of patient centered medical homes on health care quality, cost, and outcomes. (B) The department may contract with a private entity to evaluate the effectivene...

...(A) The department of health shall submit a report to the governor and, in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code, the general assembly, evaluating the patient centered medical home program not later than three years after rules adopted pursuant to section 3701.944 of the Revised Code first become effective. The department shall submit a second report not later than five years after those rules firs...

...The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) Considering the goals set forth in section 3701.941 of the Revised Code, establish standards and procedures for certifying a primary care practice as a patient centered medical home; (B) Specify the types of medical practices that constitute primary care practices for the purpose of ...

...As used in this section, "board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or an authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. If a zoonotic disease program is administered by the department of health, the director of health may charge a board of health a fee for each service the program provides to the board. The fee amount shall be d...

...Not later than July 1, 2014, the director of health shall establish both of the following by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (A) A standardized process by which all general and city health districts shall collect and report to the director information regarding public health quality indicators. (B) A policy and procedures for the sharing of health data reported under this section with pay...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Assessment" means either of the following: (a) A hospital community health needs assessment that meets the requirements set forth in 26 C.F.R. 1.501(r)-3(b); (b) An assessment of community health conducted by a board of health. (2) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section...

...(A) Whoever violates division (C) of section 3701.23, division (C) of section 3701.232, division (C) of section 3701.24, division (D)(2) of section 3701.262, or sections 3701.46 to 3701.55 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section 3701.82 of the Revised Code is guilty ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Ambulatory surgical facility" means a facility in which surgical services are provided to patients who do not require hospitalization for inpatient care, the duration of services for any patient does not extend beyond twenty-four hours after the patient's admission, and to which any of the following apply: (a) The surgical services are provided in a building that is separate from...

...dance with at least the minimum patient safety monitoring and evaluation requirements established in rules adopted under division (D) of this section. (5) The center meets the quality assessment and improvement standards established in rules adopted under division (D) of this section. (B) If the director determines that a freestanding birthing center is no longer exempt from the requirement to obtain a license unde...

...In the case of an ambulatory surgical facility not certified by the centers for medicare and medicaid services as an ambulatory surgical center, the director of health shall conduct an inspection of the facility each time the facility submits an application for license renewal. The director shall not renew the license unless all of the following conditions are met: (A) The inspector conducting the inspection c...

...ecifies an effective procedure for the safe and immediate transfer of patients from the facility to the hospital when medical care beyond the care that can be provided at the ambulatory surgical facility is necessary, including when emergency situations occur or medical complications arise. A copy of the agreement shall be filed with the director of health. (B) An ambulatory surgical facility shall update a w...

...ance will not jeopardize the health and safety of any patient; (2) A letter, contract, or memorandum of understanding signed by the facility and one or more consulting physicians who have admitting privileges at a minimum of one local hospital that is located within a twenty-five mile radius of the facility, memorializing the physician or physicians' agreement to provide back-up coverage when medical care beyond th...

...(A) In addition to the attachments specified in division (B)(3)(a) of section 3702.304 of the Revised Code, a variance application must contain or include as attachments, for each consulting physician described in division (B)(2) of that section, a signed statement in which the physician attests to both of the following: (1) The physician does not teach or provide instruction, directly or indirectly, at a medical s...

...A variance the director of health grants under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code is effective for the period of time specified by the director, except that it shall not be effective beyond the date the ambulatory surgical facility's license expires. If a variance is to expire on the date the facility's license expires, the facility may submit to the director an application for a new variance with its next li...

...An ambulatory surgical facility shall notify the director of health when any of the following occurs: (A) The facility modifies any provision of its most recent written transfer agreement filed with the director under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. Notification under these circumstances shall occur not later than the business day after the modification is finalized. As used in this division, "business day" me...

...aid to the director. The director shall deposit them into the certificate of need fund created by section 3702.52 of the Revised Code.

...A person that the director of health determines has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code shall cease conducting the activity that constitutes the violation or utilizing the facility resulting from the violation not later than thirty days after the person receives the notice mailed under section 3702.532 of the Revised Code or, if the person appeals the director's determination under section 3702.60 of the Rev...

...No third-party payer or other person is required to pay, and no person shall seek or accept payment or reimbursement for, any service rendered or costs incurred in conducting an activity during the period of time in which the activity was conducted in violation of section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. Each person that accepts any amount in violation of this division shall refund that amount on request of the per...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules establishing procedures and criteria for reviews of applications for certificates of need and issuance, denial, or withdrawal of certificates. (1) In adopting rules that establish criteria for reviews of applications of certificates of need, the director shall consider the availability of and need for long-term care beds to provide care and treatment to persons diagnose...

...placed has one or more waivers for life safety code deficiencies, one or more state fire code violations, or one or more state building code violations, and the project identified in the application does not propose to correct all life safety code deficiencies for which a waiver has been granted, all state fire code violations, and all state building code violations at the existing long-term care facility in which th...

...(A) The director of health shall accept, for review under section 3702.52 of the Revised Code, certificate of need applications for any of the following purposes if the proposed increase in beds is attributable to a replacement or relocation of existing beds from an existing long-term care facility within the same county: (1) Approval of beds in a new long-term care facility or an increase of beds in an existing lo...

...(A) At the times specified in this section, the director of health shall accept, for review under section 3702.52 of the Revised Code, certificate of need applications for any of the following purposes if the proposed increase in beds is attributable solely to relocation of existing beds from an existing long-term care facility in a county with excess beds to a long-term care facility in a county in which there are f...

...(A) As used in this section, "long-term care facility" means either of the following: (1) A nursing home licensed under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code or by a political subdivision certified under section 3721.09 of the Revised Code; (2) The portion of any facility, including a county home or county nursing home, that is certified as a skilled nursing facility under the medicare program, Title XVIII of the "So...

...(A) The applicant for a certificate of need may appeal to the director of health a decision issued by the director to grant or deny a certificate of need application. The person that requested a reviewability ruling may appeal to the director with respect to the resulting ruling issued by the director. The appeal by the applicant or person shall be made in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, and the ...

...In addition to the sanctions imposed under sections 3702.54 and 3702.55 of the Revised Code, if any person violates section 3702.53 of the Revised Code, the attorney general may commence necessary legal proceedings in the court of common pleas of Franklin county to enjoin the person from such violation until the requirements of sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code have been satisfied. At the request of the...

...Sections 3702.51 to 3702.61 of the Revised Code do not apply to any part of a long-term care facility's campus that is certified as an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, as defined in section 5124.01 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 3702.71 to 3702.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Full-time practice" means working a minimum of forty hours per week for a minimum of forty-five weeks each service year. (B) "Part-time practice" means working a minimum of twenty and a maximum of thirty-nine hours per week for a minimum of forty-five weeks per service year. (C) "Primary care physician" means an individual who is authorized under Cha...

...(A) A primary care physician who will not have an outstanding obligation for medical service to the federal government, a state, or other entity at the time of participation in the physician loan repayment program and meets one of the following requirements may apply for participation in the physician loan repayment program: (1) The primary care physician is enrolled in the final year of an accredited program requir...

...If funds are available in the physician loan repayment fund created under section 3702.78 of the Revised Code and the general assembly has appropriated funds for the physician loan repayment program, the director of health shall approve an applicant for participation in the program if the director finds that, in accordance with the priorities established under section 3702.77 of the Revised Code, the applicant i...

...(A) A primary care physician who has signed a letter of intent under section 3702.73 of the Revised Code and the director of health may enter into a contract for the physician's participation in the physician loan repayment program. The physician's employer or other funding source may also be a party to the contract. (B) The contract shall include all of the following obligations: (1) The primary care physician agr...

...There is hereby created the physician loan repayment program. Under the program, the department of health, by means of a contract provision under division (B)(3) of section 3702.74 of the Revised Code, may agree to repay all or part of the principal and interest of a government or other educational loan taken by a primary care physician for the following expenses, so long as the expenses were incurred while the...

...(A) The director of health shall designate, as health resource shortage areas, areas in this state that experience special health problems and physician practice patterns that limit access to medical care. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the designations shall be made by rule. The designations may apply to a geographic area, one or more facilities within a particular area, or a population group wi...

...The director of health, by rule, shall establish priorities among health resource shortage areas for use in recruiting primary care physicians to sites within particular areas under the physician loan repayment program. In establishing priorities, the director shall consider the ratio of primary care physicians to the population in the health resource shortage area, the distance to primary care physicians outside the...

...The director of health may accept gifts of money from any source for the implementation and administration of sections 3702.72 to 3702.77 of the Revised Code. The director shall pay all gifts accepted under this section into the state treasury, to the credit of the health resource shortage area fund, which is hereby created, and all damages collected under division (B)(4) of section 3702.74 of the Revised C...

...The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer sections 3702.71 to 3702.78 of the Revised Code.

...refundable. All fees collected shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code.

...There is hereby created the dentist loan repayment program, which shall be administered by the department of health in cooperation with the dentist loan repayment advisory board. The program shall provide loan repayment on behalf of individuals who agree to provide dental services in areas designated as dental health resource shortage areas by the director of health pursuant to section 3702.87 of the Revis...

...The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer sections 3702.85 to 3702.95 of the Revised Code. In preparing rules, the director shall consult with the dentist loan repayment advisory board.

...(A) The director of health shall designate, as dental health resource shortage areas, areas in this state that experience special dental health problems and dentist practice patterns that limit access to dental care. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the designations shall be made by rule. The designations may apply to a geographic area, one or more facilities within a particular area, or a populati...

...The director of health, by rule, shall establish priorities among dental health resource shortage areas for use in recruiting dentists to sites within particular areas under the dentist loan repayment program. In establishing priorities, the director shall consider the ratio of dentists to the population in the dental health resource shortage area, the distance to dentists outside the area, dental health status indic...