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...Any person who believes a health care facility is operating without a license in violation of division (E) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the facility is located for an order enjoining the facility from continuing to operate without a license. The court shall grant the order on a showing that the facility named in the petition is violating division...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a freestanding birthing center shall modify operational processes to ensure that a woman giving birth in the freestanding birthing center has the option of having a long- acting reversible contraceptive placed after delivery and before the woman is discharged. (B) A freestanding birthing center is exempt from the requirement in division (A) of this section if ...

...ry service areas to which the long-term care facility is, or will be, providing long-term care services. (E) "Primary service area" means the geographic region, usually comprised of the Ohio zip code in which the long-term care facility is located and contiguous zip codes, from which approximately seventy-five to eighty per cent of the facility's residents currently originate or are expected to originate. (F) "Se...

...ent, or construction of a new long-term care facility; (2) Replacement of an existing long-term care facility; (3) Renovation of or addition to a long-term care facility that involves a capital expenditure of four million dollars or more, not including expenditures for equipment, staffing, or operational costs; (4) An increase in long-term care bed capacity; (5) A relocation of long-term care beds from on...

...e addition of twenty or fewer long-term care beds to a nursing home is not a reviewable activity under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code, and therefore does not require a certificate of need, if all of the following apply: (1) The nursing home is 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 nursing home ...

... of determining the number of long-term care beds that may be needed within the state. (3) No beds shall be approved under this division unless the hospital certifies and demonstrates in the application that the beds will be dedicated to patients with a length of stay of no more than thirty days. (4) No beds shall be approved under this division unless the hospital can satisfactorily demonstrate in the applicatio...

...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...

...e of need. The transfer of a long-term care facility after the completion of a reviewable activity for which a certificate of need was issued is not a transfer of the certificate of need, unless the facility is transferred pursuant to an agreement entered into prior to the completion of the reviewable activity.

...sting 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 cer...

...irector determines, in accordance with standards specified in the rules, that reasonable progress is not being made, the director shall withdraw the certificate of need.

... Code. (3) The source of any long-term care beds to be relocated is the same as in the approved certificate of need. (4) The application for the approved certificate of need was not subject to comparative review under section 3702.593 of the Revised Code. (B) The director shall not accept an application for a replacement certificate that proposes to increase the number of long-term care beds to be relocated s...

...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.

... in which 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...

...pacity previously granted to, a hospice care program under section 3712.04 of the Revised Code; a nursing home, residential care facility, or home for the aging under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code; or any beds within any of those facilities that are involved in the activity; (B) A political subdivision certified under section 3721.09 of the Revised Code may refuse to license, or may revoke a license or reduc...

...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...

...xisting 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 long-term care facility if the beds are proposed to be licensed as nursing home beds under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code; (2) Approval of beds in a new county home or new county nursing home, or an increase of beds in an existing county home ...

...xisting 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 fewer long-term care beds than the county's bed need: (1) Approval of beds in a new long-term care facility or an increase of beds in an existing long-term care facility if the beds are proposed to be licensed as nursing home beds under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code; ...

...(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...

...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.