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...The department of medicaid, the department of health, and any contracting agency shall deliver a written notice, statement, or order to a nursing facility under sections 5165.60 to 5165.66 and 5165.69 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code by certified mail, hand delivery, or other means reasonably calculated to provide prompt actual notice. If the notice, statement, or order is mailed, it shall be addressed to the administr...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the following remedies are subject to appeal under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (1) An order issued under section 5165.71, 5165.72, 5165.77, or 5165.85 of the Revised Code terminating a nursing facility's participation in the medicaid program; (2) Appointment of a temporary manager of a facility under division (A)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of section 5165.72, o...

...(A)(1) Except as required by court order, as necessary for the administration or enforcement of any statute relating to nursing facilities, or as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of medicaid and any contracting agency shall not release any of the following information without the permission of the individual or the individual's legal representative: (a) The identity of any resident of ...

...The department of health shall be the designee of the department of medicaid for the purpose of conducting a hearing pursuant to section 3721.162 of the Revised Code concerning a nursing facility's decision to transfer or discharge a resident if the resident is a medicaid recipient or medicare beneficiary.

...(A) Whoever violates section 5165.102 or division (E) of section 5165.08 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for the first offense and not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each subsequent offense. Fines paid under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. (...

...quarter, the department of children and youth shall determine the state's preliminary infant mortality and preterm birth rates, as well as the stillbirth rate, delineated by race and ethnic group. The rates shall be determined using a simple rolling average. The department shall publish the rates in a quarterly report, which shall also include a description of the data sources and methodology used to determine the ra...

...es. (B) The director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (1) Publish stillbirth data compiled from the department of health's fetal death statistical file and make it available on the department of children and youth's internet web site; (2) Review the stillbirth data described in division (B)(1) of this section and identify potential trends in the incidence of stillbirth and the possible ca...

..., to an expectant parent who uses their services; (2) By the staff of pediatric physicians' offices, to any of the following who use their services: an infant's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant; (3) By the staff of a hospital or freestanding birthing center, to an infant's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant, before the child is discharged from the facility t...

...The director of children and youth shall require each recipient of a grant the department of children and youth administers that pertains to safe crib procurement to report annually to the department both of the following: (A) Demographic information specified by the director of children and youth regarding the individuals to whom safe cribs were distributed; (B) If known, the extent to which distributed cribs ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a population-based questionnaire designed to examine maternal behaviors and experiences before, during, and after a woman's pregnancy, as well as during the early infancy of the woman's child. The questionnaire shall collect information that is similar to the information collected by the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system (PRAMS) questionnaire that the de...

...ished in the department of children and youth a pregnancy-associated mortality review (PAMR) board to identify and review all pregnancy-associated deaths statewide for the purpose of reducing the incidence of those deaths.

...The PAMR board may not conduct a review of a pregnancy-associated death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecutio...

...government entity, agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, health care provider, or other public or private entity that provided services to a woman whose death is being reviewed by the PAMR board shall submit to the board a copy of any record it possesses that the board requests. In addition, such an individual or entity may make available to the board additiona...

...itted to the department of children and youth by the board, other than the biennial reports described in section 5180.277 of the Revised Code, are confidential and not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Such materials shall be used by the board and department only in the exercise of the proper functions of the board and department. (B) No person shall permit or encourage the unauthorized dis...

...(A) An individual or public or private entity providing records, documents, reports, or other information to the PAMR board is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the records, documents, reports, or information to the board. (B) Each board member is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or...

... report to the director of children and youth, the general assembly, and the governor. The copy to the general assembly shall be submitted in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. The initial report shall be submitted not later than March 1, 2020, with subsequent reports submitted not later than March 1 every two years thereafter. The director shall make a copy of each report available on the departm...

...The director of children and youth shall adopt rules that are necessary for the implementation of sections 5180.27 to 5180.277 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (A) Establish a procedure for the PAMR board to follow in conducting pregnancy-associated death reviews; (B) Specify the data and other relevant information the board must use when conducting pregnancy-associated death r...

...ves; (4) The director of children and youth, who shall serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member, or the director's designee. (D) Members shall not be compensated for work as members of the advisory board to the extent that serving on the board is considered a part of the member's regular duties of employment. (E) Each voting member appointed to the board shall serve a term of three years, each term ending on th...

...Except as provided in section 5180.402 of the Revised Code, information contained in or obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code is confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to section 149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised Code.

...No person shall access or use information contained in the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code other than in accordance with section 5180.402 of the Revised Code or rules authorized by that section. No person shall disclose information obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code in a manner not specifie...

...requests the department of children and youth to conduct a search of whether that person's name has been placed or remains in the statewide automated child welfare information system as an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect and a search reveals that a "substantiated" disposition exists, the department shall send a letter to the person who requested the search indicating a "match."

...The department of children and youth shall work with stakeholders to establish an expungement policy regarding dispositions of child abuse or neglect in Ohio's central registry on child abuse and neglect by March 1, 2024.

...l deposit all funds its public children services agency receives from appropriations made by the board of county commissioners or any other source for the purpose of providing children services into a special fund in the county treasury known as the children services fund. A county shall use money in the fund only for the purposes of meeting the expenses of providing children services.

...Money from the children services fund shall not be used to provide a personal loan to any individual.

...ent with the department of children and youth, or its representative, for the emancipated young adult's care and placement. The agreement shall stay in effect until one of the following occurs: (1) The emancipated young adult enrolled in the program notifies the department, or its representative, that they want to terminate the agreement. (2) The emancipated young adult becomes ineligible for the program. (B...