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...t by any individual used by a long-term care facility or residential care facility to provide services to residents. (B) The director shall make findings regarding alleged abuse, neglect, exploitation, or misappropriation of property after doing both of the following: (1) Investigating the allegation and determining that there is a reasonable basis for it; (2) Giving notice to the individual named in the allegatio...

...holding of services, failure to provide care in a timely manner, and any other action intended to retaliate against the resident. (C) Any person has a cause of action against a person or government entity for harm resulting from violation of division (A) or (B) of this section. If it finds that a violation has occurred, the court may award damages and order injunctive relief. The court may award court costs and reas...

...y statute or rule relating to long-term care facilities or residential care facilities, or as provided in division (D) of this section, the director of health shall not disclose any of the following without the consent of the individual or the individual's legal representative: (a) The name of an individual who reports suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a resident or misappropriation of a resident's proper...

...The director of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement sections 3721.21 to 3721.25 of the Revised Code, including rules prescribing requirements for the notice and hearing required under section 3721.23 of the Revised Code. The notice and hearing required under section 3721.23 of the Revised Code are not subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; however, the rules may pr...

...(1) Each nurse aide used by a long-term care facility on a full-time, temporary, per diem, or other basis on July 1, 1989, shall be provided by the facility a competency evaluation program approved by the director of health under division (A) of section 3721.31 of the Revised Code or conducted by the director under division (C) of that section. Each long-term care facility using a nurse aide on July 1, 1989, shall pr...

...quired by this chapter, each long-term care facility shall provide both of the following to each nurse aide it uses: (A) An orientation program that includes at least an explanation of the organizational structure of the facility, its policies and procedures, its philosophy of care, a description of its resident population, and an enumeration of its employee rules; (B) Regular performance review and in-servic...

...e programs conducted by or in long-term care facilities, or by any government agency or person, including an employee organization. (3) The director shall not approve or reapprove a training and competency evaluation program conducted by or in a long-term care facility that was determined by the director or the United States secretary of health and human services to have been out of compliance with the requirements...

...llowing: (1) Were used by a long-term care facility as nurse aides on a full-time, temporary, per diem, or other basis at any time during the period commencing July 1, 1989, and ending January 1, 1990, and successfully completed, not later than October 1, 1990, a competency evaluation program approved by the director under division (A) of section 3721.31 of the Revised Code or conducted by the director under divisi...

...Except for any fee collected and retained by a testing service under contract pursuant to division (C) of section 3721.31 of the Revised Code, all fees collected under section 3721.31 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the nurse aide training fund, which is hereby created. The moneys in the fund shall be used solely for the purposes set forth in sections 3721.28 to 3721.32 o...

...For purposes of implementing sections 3721.28 to 3721.33 of the Revised Code, the director of health may advise, consult or cooperate with, or enter into agreements with state agencies, political subdivisions, the federal government, or any person. The director may enter into agreements that provide for a state agency to do any of the following: (A) Approve or reapprove, in accordance with division (A) of section 3...

...Nothing in sections 3721.28 to 3721.34 of the Revised Code shall be construed to permit any individual to engage in the practice of nursing as a registered nurse or the practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse if the individual does not hold a valid license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code.

... a durable power of attorney for health care executed pursuant to sections 1337.11 to 1337.17 of the Revised Code. (B) "Electronic monitoring device" means a surveillance instrument with a fixed position video camera or an audio recording device, or a combination thereof, that is installed in a resident's room and broadcasts or records activities or sounds occurring in the room. (C) "Guardian" has the same meani...

...e in the resident's room in a long-term care facility. (B) The installation and use of an electronic monitoring device may be authorized only if both of the following conditions are met: (1) If a long-term care facility has prescribed a form described in section 3721.63 of the Revised Code, the resident or resident's guardian or attorney in fact completes the form and submits it to the facility. (2) The cost of...

...es with another resident in a long-term care facility, the consent of the other resident or the other resident's guardian or attorney in fact to the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in the room is required before any installation or use of such a device may occur. If the long-term care facility has prescribed a form described in section 3721.63 of the Revised Code, the other resident or other r...

...A long-term care facility may prescribe a form for use by a resident or resident's guardian or attorney in fact seeking to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in the resident's room in a long-term care facility. If a long-term care facility prescribes a form, it shall, at a minimum, include all of the following: (A) An explanation of sections 3721.60 to 3721.67 of the Revised Code;...

...A long-term care facility may post a notice in a conspicuous place at the entrance to a resident's room with an electronic monitoring device stating that an electronic monitoring device is in use in that room.

...ssion to or discharged from a long-term care facility or otherwise discriminated or retaliated against because of the decision to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in a resident's room in the facility.

...e in the resident's room in a long-term care facility shall intentionally obstruct, tamper with, or destroy the device or a recording made by the device. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no person other than the following shall intentionally view or listen to the images displayed or sounds recorded by an electronic monitoring device installed in a resident's room: (1) The resident; (2) Th...

...The director of health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement sections 3721.60 to 3721.66 of the Revised Code.

...Sections 3721.60 to 3721.67 of the Revised Code do not apply if an electronic monitoring device is installed by a law enforcement agency and used solely for a bona fide law enforcement purpose.

...(A) As used in this section, "long-term care facility" means all of the following: (1) A home, as defined in section 3721.10 of the Revised Code; (2) A residential facility licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code; (3) A residential facility licensed by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; (4...

...ns by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services, which shall reduce any civil monetary penalty imposed under this section by the same amount; (5) The home's history of compliance. (D) If the director determines the need for a civil monetary penalty under this section, the director may enter into settlement negotiations with the affected home. Settlements may include any of the following: (...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agent" means any person licensed by a county auditor or the tax commissioner to purchase and affix adhesive or meter stamps on packages of cigarettes pursuant to Chapter 5743. of the Revised Code. (B) "Brand family" means all styles of cigarettes sold under the same trademark and differentiated from one another by means of additional modifiers or descriptors, including, but not l...

...(B) The cigarettes meet the performance standard specified under division (B) of section 3739.03 of the Revised Code or the performance standard approved by the state fire marshal under section 3739.04 of the Revised Code. (C) The manufacturer has marked the packaging of the cigarettes as required in section 3739.06 of the Revised Code. (D) The manufacturer files a written certification with the state fire mar...

... to the international organization for standardization and international electrotechnical commission standard 17025 of the international organization for standardization, or another comparable accreditation standard required by the state fire marshal. The laboratory shall implement a quality control and quality assurance program and shall use that program when conducting the testing required under division (B) ...