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...The director of health shall inspect each maternity home for which a person has applied for an initial license under section 3711.04 of the Revised Code prior to issuing the license. Inspections shall be conducted in accordance with inspection criteria, procedures, and guidelines adopted by the director under section 3711.12 of the Revised Code.

...A license issued under this chapter is valid for three years, unless earlier revoked or suspended under section 3711.14 of the Revised Code. The license may be renewed in the manner prescribed by the director of health in rules adopted under section 3711.12 of the Revised Code. The license renewal fee specified in the rules shall be paid not later than sixty days after the director of health mails an invoice fo...

...The director of health shall monitor compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. The director may conduct inspections of a maternity home as necessary to adequately monitor compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. The inspections may be scheduled or random. The board of health of the city or general health district in which a maternity home is located may conduct inspections of ...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as the director considers necessary to implement the requirements of this chapter for licensure and operation of maternity homes. The rules shall include provisions for the following: (1) Licensure application forms and procedures; (2) Renewal procedures, including procedures that address the right of the director of ...

...(A) A board of health may grant a variance from or waiver of any of the requirements established in rules adopted under section 3711.12 of the Revised Code regarding the operation of a maternity home. (B) Each maternity home seeking a variance or waiver shall file an application with the board of health of the city or general health district in which the maternity home is located. The application shall be mad...

... (A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of health may do any of the following: (1) Impose a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars on a person who violates a provision of this chapter or the rules adopted under it; (2) Summarily suspend, in accordance with division (B) of this section, a license issued under this ch...

...All initial license fees, renewal fees, late renewal penalties, fees for inspections conducted by the director of health, and civil penalties collected under this chapter shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created under section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. The moneys shall be used solely for purposes of administering and enforcing this chapter and the rules...

...(A) As used in this section, "opioid" means an opioid analgesic as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Each maternity home shall report to the department of health the number of newborns born to residents of this state in the home during the preceding calendar quarter that were diagnosed as opioid dependent at birth. The reports shall be submitted not later than thirty days after the end of each qua...

... As used in this chapter: (A) "Hospice care program" means a coordinated program of home, outpatient, and inpatient care and services that is operated by a person or public agency and that provides the following care and services to hospice patients, including services as indicated below to hospice patients' families, through a medically directed interdisciplinary team, under interdisciplinary plans of care establi...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of health shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules: (1) Providing for the licensing of persons or public agencies providing hospice care programs within this state by the department of health and for the suspension and revocation of licenses; (2) Establishing a license fee and license renewal fee for hospice care programs, neither of which s...

... (A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of health shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules: (1) Providing for the licensing of persons or public agencies providing pediatric respite care programs within this state by the department of health and for the suspension and revocation of licenses; (2) Establishing a license fee and license renewal fee for pediatric respite care prog...

... (A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of health shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules: (1) Providing for the registration of persons and public agencies that provide pediatric transition care programs within this state and for the suspension and revocation of registrations; (2) Establishing fees for initial registration and registration renewal for pediatric transition car...

...(A) Every person or public agency that proposes to provide a hospice care program shall apply to the department of health for a license. Application shall be made on forms prescribed and provided by the department, shall include such information as the department requires, and shall be accompanied by the license fee established by rules of the director of health adopted under division (A) of section 3712.03 of the Re...

...(A) Every person or public agency that proposes to provide a pediatric respite care program shall apply to the department of health for a license. Application shall be made on forms prescribed and provided by the department, shall include such information as the department requires, and shall be accompanied by the license fee established by rules adopted by the director of health under division (A) of section 3...

... (A) Every person or public agency that proposes to provide a pediatric transition care program shall register with the department of health. Registration shall be made on forms prescribed and provided by the department and shall include such information as the department requires. The department shall register a pediatric transition care program if the program is in compliance with this chapter and rules adopted u...

...(A) No person or public agency, other than a person or public agency licensed pursuant to section 3712.04 of the Revised Code, shall hold itself out as providing a hospice care program, or provide a hospice care program, or use the term "hospice" or any term containing "hospice" to describe or refer to a health program, facility, or agency. A hospital, home providing nursing care, or home health agency that provides...

...(A) As used in this division, "person" does not include a member of an interdisciplinary team, as defined in section 3712.01 of the Revised Code, or any individual who is employed by a person or public agency licensed under section 3712.041 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person or public agency, other than a person or public agency licensed pursuant to section 3712...

... Any person or public agency licensed under section 3712.04 of the Revised Code to provide a hospice care program shall: (A) Provide a planned and continuous hospice care program, the medical components of which shall be under the direction of a physician; (B) Ensure that care is available twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week; (C) Establish an interdisciplinary plan of care for each hospice patient and...

... (A) Any person or public agency licensed under section 3712.041 of the Revised Code to provide a pediatric respite care program shall do all of the following: (1) Provide a planned and continuous pediatric respite care program, the medical components of which shall be under the direction of a physician; (2) Ensure that care commensurate with a pediatric respite care patient's needs is available twenty-four hours...

...(A) Each hospice care program licensed under this chapter that provides hospice care and services in a hospice patient's home shall establish a written policy establishing procedures to be followed in preventing the diversion of controlled substances containing opioids that are prescribed to its hospice patients. The policy shall include procedures for the disposal of any such drugs prescribed to a hospice patient as...

... All of the following apply to a person or public agency registered under section 3712.042 of the Revised Code to provide a pediatric transition care program: (A) The program shall ensure that the medical care components of the program are under the direction of a physician. (B) When a program arranges for a home health agency to furnish a component or components of the program to a pediatric transition care pati...

...(A) As used in this section, "terminal care facility for the homeless" means a facility that provides accommodations to homeless individuals who are terminally ill. (B) A person or public agency licensed under this chapter to provide a hospice care program may enter into an agreement with a terminal care facility for the homeless under which hospice care program services may be provided to individuals residing...

...The department of health shall not issue a license to conduct a new inpatient hospice care program if the program is to be conducted by a nursing home licensed under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Applicant" means a person who is under final consideration for employment with a hospice care program or pediatric respite care program in a full-time, part-time, or temporary position that involves providing direct care to an older adult or pediatric respite care patient. "Applicant" does not include a person who provides direct care as a volunteer without receiving or expec...

... (A) In addition to providing palliative care to hospice patients, a hospice care program may provide palliative care in an inpatient facility or unit operated by the program to patients who are not hospice patients, but only if the care is provided to each patient on a short-term basis and the care is medically necessary for the patient receiving the care. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter describing...