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...(A) Reviews of applications for certificates of need to recategorize hospital beds to skilled nursing beds shall be conducted in accordance with this division and rules adopted by the director of health. (1) No hospital recategorizing beds shall apply for a certificate of need for more than twenty skilled nursing beds. (2) No beds for which a certificate of need is requested under this division shall be reviewed ...

...A person who has an application for a certificate of need pending with the director of health may revise the application to change the site of the proposed project unless either of the following applies: (A) The director, under section 3702.52 of the Revised Code, has mailed the applicant a written notice that the application is complete. (B) The application is subject to a comparative review under section 3...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a certificate of need is not transferable prior to the completion of the reviewable activity for which it was granted. If any person holding a certificate of need transfers the certificate of need to another person before the reviewable activity is completed, or enters into an agreement that contemplates the transfer of the certificate of need on the comp...

... structures, provide the long-term care service by the means specified in the approved application for the certificate; (4) If the project for which the certificate of need was granted primarily involves leasing a building or space that requires only minor renovations to the existing space, execute a lease and provide the long-term care service by the means specified in the approved application for the certific...

...Every six months after complying with section 3702.524 of the Revised Code, the holder of the certificate of need shall demonstrate to the director of health, in the form and manner required by rules adopted under section 3702.57 of the Revised Code, that reasonable progress is being made toward the completion of the reviewable activity. If the director determines, in accordance with standards specified in the ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the director of health shall accept an application for a replacement certificate of need for an activity described in division (A) of section 3702.511 of the Revised Code to replace an approved certificate of need if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The applicant requests the replacement certificate of need so that the reviewable activity for...

...A bed described in division (O)(5) of section 3702.51 of the Revised Code may be converted to a bed described in division (O)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of that section only as provided in the certificate of need under which the beds were approved or its replacement certificate of need.

...(A) No person shall carry out any reviewable activity unless a certificate of need for such activity has been granted under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code or the person is exempted by division (B) of section 3702.511 or section 3702.512 or 3702.62 of the Revised Code from the requirement that a certificate of need be obtained. No person shall carry out any reviewable activity if a certificate of need...

...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.

...hich the person provides long-term care services. The director's finding of community hardship shall not affect the granting or denial of any future certificate of need application filed by the person.

...Each person required by section 3702.54 of the Revised Code to pay a civil penalty shall do so not later than sixty days after receiving the notice mailed under section 3702.532 of the Revised Code or, if the person appeals under section 3702.60 of the Revised Code the director of health's determination that a violation has occurred, not later than sixty days after the issuance of an order upholding the director's de...

...es to seek payment or reimbursement for services rendered or costs incurred in conducting the activity as prohibited by section 3702.56 of the Revised Code, in addition to the penalties imposed under section 3702.54 of the Revised Code: (A) The director of health may refuse to license, or may revoke a license or reduce bed capacity previously granted to, a hospice care program under section 3712.04 of the Revised ...

...cept 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 person that paid it.

... the cost and quality of long-term care services in the relevant service area, including, but not limited, to the historical and projected utilization of the services to which the application pertains and the effect of the reviewable activity on utilization of other providers of similar services; (b) The quality of the services to be provided as the result of the activity, as evidenced by the historical performanc...

...(A) The director of health shall accept for review certificate of need applications as provided in sections 3702.592, 3702.593, and 3702.594 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The director shall not approve an application for a certificate of need for the addition of long-term care beds to an existing long-term care facility or for the development of a new long-term care facility if any of the following apply: (a) The exi...

...(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...

...ndependent living, or congregate living services; (4) Whether the long-term care facility's owner or operator will participate in medicaid waiver programs for alternatives to institutional care; (5) Whether the project in which the beds will be included will reduce alternatives to institutional care by converting residential care beds or other alternative care beds to long-term care beds; (6) Whether the fac...

...(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.

... 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 Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery and is board certified or board e...

...e 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 required for board certification in a primary care ...

...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...