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...The director of health shall evaluate and may investigate evidence that appears to demonstrate that any person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. If the director elects to conduct an investigation, the director shall mail to the alleged violator by certified mail, return receipt requested, a notice that an investigation is underway. When conducting an investigation under this section, the direc...

...When the director of health determines that a person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code, the director shall send a notice to the person by certified mail, return receipt requested, specifying the activity constituting the violation and the penalties imposed under section 3702.54 of the Revised Code.

...Divisions (A) and (B) of this section apply when the director of health determines that a person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. (A) The director shall impose a civil penalty on the person in an amount equal to the greatest of the following: (1) Three thousand dollars; (2) Five per cent of the operating cost of the activity that constitutes the violation during the period of time it was con...

...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...