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...te, and maintain, as and for a county hospital, the lands, buildings, and equipment of a general hospital owned by any such municipal corporation in the county. The terms of such agreement may provide that operation and maintenance of said hospital shall be under the direction and control of a public university having a college of medicine and located within the county. For such purposes the board may expend any avai...

...gs, and equipment of any such general hospital as provided by section 339.12 of the Revised Code, as and for a county hospital, and has expended money or funds to operate and maintain the hospital, such acts and expenditures of the board may be ratified and confirmed by resolution of the board, by and with the consent of the municipal corporation owning such general hospital. When such acts and expenditures have been...

...orporations, organized for charitable hospital purposes and not for profit, in this section called participating hospital corporations, the board of county commissioners may, after a determination that the preservation of the public health requires additional hospital facilities in the county, appoint a hospital commission of not less than three members, in this section called the county hospital commission. Not less...

...The hospital commission of any county or the board of county hospital trustees established pursuant to section 339.02 of the Revised Code may issue revenue obligations of the county pursuant to section 140.06 of the Revised Code.

...(A) A board of trustees of any county hospital may contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure on behalf of any or all of its employees, the employees of the hospital, or such employees and their immediate dependents the following types of fringe benefits: (1) Group or individual insurance contracts which may include life, sickness, accident, disability, annuities, endowment, health, medical expense, hospital, dent...

...de are not applicable with respect to hospital facilities and services provided for under leases or agreements entered into pursuant to section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code, except to the extent made applicable by section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code and the leases and agreements made thereunder. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, the requirements of section 339.091 of the Revised Co...

...nd operation of a county tuberculosis hospital, a county tuberculosis hospital that was operating under those sections on the effective date of that act, October 10, 2000, may continue to exist and operate on and after that date as though the provisions of those sections were neither amended nor repealed and had remained in full force and effect.

...As used in this section and sections 339.72 to 339.89 of the Revised Code: (A) "Active tuberculosis" means tuberculosis that has been demonstrated by clinical, bacteriological, or radiographic evidence to be present in an individual who has not completed an appropriate course of antituberculosis medication, regardless of the stage of communicability of the tuberculosis, and includes both pulmonary and extrapulmonary...

...on 339.76 of the Revised Code; (3) A hospital that provides tuberculosis clinic services under a contract with a board of county commissioners pursuant to section 339.75 of the Revised Code. (B) The entity designated under division (A) of this section as the tuberculosis control unit shall accept that designation and fulfill its duties as the tuberculosis control unit specified under sections 339.71 to 339.89 of th...

...Each county or district tuberculosis control unit shall ensure that tuberculosis treatment is made available to all individuals with tuberculosis who reside in the area served by the unit. In making treatment available, the tuberculosis control unit may provide the treatment or make referrals for receipt of treatment from other entities. The unit may make referrals for receipt of temporary housing. The tuberculosis ...

...Each county or district tuberculosis control unit shall establish a tuberculosis record bureau, appoint a director thereof, and appoint such assistants as are required to maintain adequate records with respect to all known cases of tuberculosis within the area served by the unit.

...ity or general health district or any hospital or other health care facility for the provision of the tuberculosis treatment specified under section 339.73 of the Revised Code. The board shall pay to the board of health or health care facility with which it contracts the amount provided in the contract.

...ed by a board of trustees of a county hospital, or by a city or general district board of health within the county, as the board of county commissioners designates. The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may join together to establish a joint county tuberculosis clinic. Clinics so established shall be under the control of the joint boards of county commissioners of the member counties and shall b...

... follows: (1) The administrator of a hospital, clinic, or other facility that is providing services to an individual who is confirmed to have or is suspected of having tuberculosis shall report the case to the tuberculosis control unit; (2) The administrator of a laboratory that performs tests for tuberculosis on human specimens shall report to the tuberculosis control unit each positive tuberculosis test result ob...

...A county or district tuberculosis control unit shall make a report to the Ohio department of health each time the unit receives a report under section 339.78 of the Revised Code of a suspected or confirmed case of tuberculosis or a case of tuberculosis that is resistant to one or more drugs. If the report pertains to an individual who is not a resident of this state, the department shall make a report to the state o...

...When a county or district tuberculosis control unit receives a report under section 339.78 of the Revised Code of a confirmed or suspected case of tuberculosis, the unit shall conduct an investigation that includes personal contact with the individual with tuberculosis. The investigation shall commence not later than three working days after the unit receives the report.

...rculosis in this state. No physician, hospital, or other entity furnishing information, data, or reports pursuant to this chapter shall by reason of such furnishing be deemed to have violated any confidential relationship, be held to answer for willful betrayal of a professional confidence, or be held liable in damages to any person.

... communicable tuberculosis who is not hospitalized or otherwise confined shall not attend any public gathering or be in any public place that the county or district tuberculosis control unit determines cannot be maintained in a manner adequate to protect others from the spread of the disease. An individual with communicable tuberculosis who cannot be maintained outside of a hospital in a manner adequate to protect ot...

...When a county or district tuberculosis control unit becomes aware that an individual with active or communicable tuberculosis is not in compliance with section 339.82 of the Revised Code, the unit shall inform the individual that section 339.82 of the Revised Code requires compliance and that the unit may issue an order under section 339.84 of the Revised Code compelling the individual to comply.

...If an individual fails to comply with section 339.82 of the Revised Code, the county or district tuberculosis control unit may issue an order compelling the individual to comply.

...If an individual fails to comply with an order issued under section 339.84 of the Revised Code, the county or district tuberculosis control unit may apply to the probate court of the appropriate county for an injunction prohibiting the individual from continuing to violate the unit's order. If the tuberculosis control unit believes that an individual's failure to comply with its order involves an immediate danger to ...

...thority to detain the individual in a hospital or other place to be examined or treated for tuberculosis. In the request, the unit shall provide the following information: (1) The name of the individual; (2) The purpose of making the request for detention; (3) An individualized assessment that contains a description of the circumstances and behavior of the individual that constitutes the basis for making the reque...

...officer to remove the individual to a hospital or other place to be examined and treated for tuberculosis. (B) Not later than the end of the third business day after detention of an individual under division (A) of this section, the tuberculosis control unit shall apply to the probate court of the county from which the individual was removed for a detention order under division (B) of section 339.86 of the Revised C...

...The expenses incurred for detention under section 339.86 or 339.87 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the individual detained or if the individual is indigent, by the board of county commissioners of the county from which the individual was removed.

... medical treatment, or detention in a hospital or other place for treatment if the person, or, in the case of a child, the child's parents, rely exclusively on spiritual treatment through prayer, in lieu of medical treatment, in accordance with a recognized, religious method of healing. The person may be quarantined or otherwise safely isolated in the home or another place that is suitable to the health of the person...