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... ; (B) The business complies with all safety precautions that the order or rule requires of businesses that are permitted to continue operations under the order or rule. This section does not apply to an order or rule of the director or department of health that is issued under this chapter and applicable only to a particular business or business location due to circumstances uniquely present at that particular b...

...n who treats patients as an employee or contractor of such a hospital or system of hospitals. Not more than twenty individuals shall serve as members of the council at any one time. Not more than two members shall be employed by the same health care facility or provider or practice at or for the same health care facility or provider. In making appointments to the council, the director shall seek to include as mem...

...The palliative care consumer and professional information and education program is hereby established in the department of health. The purpose of the program is to maximize the effectiveness of palliative care initiatives in this state by ensuring that comprehensive and accurate information and education on palliative care is available to health care facilities, other health care providers, and the public. The depa...

...(A) Each of the health care facilities and providers identified in division (B) of this section shall do both of the following: (1) Establish a system for identifying patients or residents who could benefit from palliative care; (2) Provide information on palliative care to patients and residents who could benefit from palliative care. (B) Division (A) of this section applies to all of the following: (1) A ho...

...The state construction and modernization program shall provide, in accordance with regulations prescribed under the federal act, for adequate hospital and medical facilities for the people residing in this state and in so far as possible shall provide for their distribution throughout the state in such manner as to make all types of hospital and medical facilities service reasonably accessible to all persons.

...The director of health may make application to the surgeon general for federal funds to assist in carrying out the survey and planning activities provided in sections 3701.01, 3701.04, 3701.08, 3701.09, and 3701.37 to 3701.45 of the Revised Code. Such funds shall be deposited in the state treasury and shall be available to the director for expenditure for carrying out such sections. Any such funds received and not e...

...The director of health shall prepare and submit to the surgeon general a state plan which shall include the hospital and medical facilities construction and modernization program developed under sections 3701.01, 3701.04, 3701.08, 3701.09, and 3701.37 to 3701.45 of the Revised Code, and which shall provide for the establishment, administration, and operation of hospital and medical facilities construction and moderni...

...s, nurses, and other personnel, and no rules, regulations, or standards of the director of health adopted or promulgated severally or jointly shall be valid which, if enforced, would interfere in such selection or employment. The director of health may petition the common pleas court of the county in which any hospital or medical facility is located for an order enjoining any person, firm, partnership, associat...

...The state plan provided for by section 3701.39 of the Revised Code shall set forth the relative need for the several projects included in the construction and modernization program determined in accordance with regulations prescribed pursuant to the federal act and provide for the construction or modernization, in so far as financial resources are available therefor and maintenance and operations make possible, in th...

...Applications for grants, loans, or loan guarantees under the federal act for hospital and medical facilities construction or modernization projects shall be submitted to the director of health and may be submitted by the state or any political subdivision thereof or by any other public or nonprofit agency eligible under the federal act. Each application for a construction or modernization project shall conform to fed...

...The director of health shall afford to every applicant for a construction project an opportunity for a fair hearing. If the director, after affording reasonable opportunity for development and presentation of applications in the order of relative need, finds that a project application complies with section 3701.42 of the Revised Code and is otherwise in conformity with the state plan provided for in section 3701.39 o...

...The director of health shall inspect each construction project approved by the surgeon general and, if the inspection so warrants, the director shall certify to the surgeon general that work has been performed upon the project or purchases have been made in accordance with the approved plans and specifications and that payment of an installment of federal funds is due to the applicant.

...The director of health may receive federal grant funds in behalf of, and transmit them to, applicants for hospital and medical facilities construction and modernization projects. There is hereby established, separate and apart from all public moneys and funds of this state, a hospital and medical facilities construction fund. Grant moneys received from the federal government for a project approved by the surgeon gene...

...In reporting every birth and fetal death, physicians, certified nurse-midwives, and others required to make the reports shall state on the birth or fetal death certificate, as the case may be, whether approved tests for syphilis and gonorrhea have been made in an approved laboratory upon specimens taken from the woman who bore the child for which the certificate is filed, and the approximate date when the speci...

...As used in sections 3701.46 to 3701.50 of the Revised Code, the standard tests for syphilis and gonorrhea are tests approved by the department of health, and shall be made at a laboratory approved to make such tests by the department. Such tests as are required shall, on request of the physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner submitting the specimens, be made with...

...The approved laboratory making the standard tests for syphilis and gonorrhea shall make a report to the physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, or health commissioner submitting the specimens. Such laboratory shall forthwith report any reactive syphilis test or positive gonorrhea test to the department of health on forms prescribed and furnished by the director of ...

...If any pregnant woman is attended during the period of gestation by any person authorized to attend pregnant women, other than a licensed physician, but who is not permitted to take test specimens, then such authorized person shall notify immediately the health commissioner of the city or general health district of the residence of such pregnant woman. The health commissioner shall cause the test specimens to be take...

...Every physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner who attends any pregnant woman for conditions relating to pregnancy during the period of gestation shall take specimens of such woman at the time of first examination or within ten days thereof, and shall submit such specimens to an approved laboratory for standard syphilis and gonorrhea tests. If, in the opinion of t...

...e, and metabolic disorders specified in rules adopted pursuant to this section. (2) Division (A)(1) of this section does not apply in any of the following circumstances: (a) If the parents of the child object to the screening on the grounds that it conflicts with their religious tenets and practices; (b) With respect to the screening for Krabbe disease described in division (C)(1)(b) of this section, if the ...

...The director of health shall do all of the following: (A) Encourage and assist in the development of programs of education, detection, and treatment of genetic diseases and provide for habilitation, rehabilitation, and counseling of persons possessing a genetic trait of, or afflicted with, genetic disease; (B) Advise, consult, cooperate with, and assist, by contract or otherwise, agencies of this state and the fede...

...As used in sections 3701.504 to 3701.509 of the Revised Code: (A) "Parent" means either parent, unless the parents are separated or divorced or their marriage has been dissolved or annulled, in which case "parent" means the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian. (B) "Guardian" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Custodian" means, except as used in division (A)...

...ablished under this section pursuant to rules adopted under section 3701.508 of the Revised Code.

... of this section in accordance with the rules adopted under section 3701.508 of the Revised Code. A hospital or freestanding birthing center may commence taking these actions at any time after the effective date of the rules but not later than June 30, 2004, unless an extension is granted. The director may grant an extension to delay for up to one year after June 30, 2004, the requirement of compliance with the rules...

...The department of health shall prepare and distribute to all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers required to provide hearing screenings under the program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code and each board of health, information describing factors or conditions of hearing loss and the effect of such a loss on an infant or child's language development, and information on the importance of he...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules governing the statewide hearing screening, tracking, and early intervention program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Specify how hospitals and freestanding birthing centers are to comply with the requirements of section 3701.505 of the Revised Code, including methods to be used for hearing screenin...