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...An ambulatory surgical facility shall notify the director of health when any of the following occurs: (A) The facility modifies any provision of its most recent written transfer agreement filed with the director under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. Notification under these circumstances shall occur not later than the business day after the modification is finalized. As used in this division, "business day" me...

...If any provision in sections 3702.302 to 3702.307 of the Revised Code is enjoined, the injunction does not affect any remaining provision of those sections, any provision of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, or any provision of the rules adopted under that section.

...(A) If a variance application is denied under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code, the license of such an ambulatory surgical facility is automatically suspended. The director of health shall reinstate the license if one of the following occurs: (1) The facility files with the director a copy of a written transfer agreement that meets the requirements of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. (2) The director grant...

...A local hospital shall not be further than thirty miles from an ambulatory surgical facility with which the local hospital has a written transfer agreement under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code.

...The director of health may impose conditions on any variance the director has granted under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code. The director may, at any time, rescind the variance for any reason, including a determination by the director that the facility is failing to meet one or more of the conditions or no longer adequately protects public health and safety. The director's decision to rescind a variance is final...

...(A) As used in this section, "surgical smoke" and "surgical smoke evacuation system" have the same meanings as in section 3727.25 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than one year after the effective date of this section, each ambulatory surgical facility shall adopt and implement a policy designed to prevent human exposure to surgical smoke during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical ...

... of health shall provide to each health care facility or provider inspected pursuant to section 3702.30 of the Revised Code a written statement of the fee. The statement shall itemize and total the costs incurred. Within fifteen days after receiving a statement from the director, the facility or provider shall forward the total amount of the fee to the director. (3) The fees described in divisions (B)(1) and (2) o...

...ctor of health determines that a health care facility is operating without a license in violation of division (E)(1) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, the director shall do one or more of the following: (1) Provide an opportunity for the health care facility to apply for a license within a specified time, not exceeding thirty days after the date of the facility's receipt of the order; (2) Issue an order that ...

...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...