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... The board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with one or more corporations or associations organized for charitable purposes or for the purpose of maintaining and operating a hospital in any county in which such hospital has been established, for the care of indigent persons who are sick or have disabilities, including indigent persons receiving the tuberculosis treatment specified in section 339.73...

...The board of county commissioners may, upon such terms as are agreed upon between such board and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, lease, acquire, operate, and maintain, as and for a county hospital, the lands, buildings, and equipment of a general hospital owned by any such municipal corporation in the county. The terms of such agreement may provide that operation and maintenance of said hospit...

...If the board of county commissioners has, prior to June 18, 1925, leased the lands, buildings, and equipment of any such general hospital as provided by section 339.12 of the Revised Code, as and for a county hospital, and has expended money or funds to operate and maintain the hospital, such acts and expenditures of the board may be ratified and confirmed by resolution of the board, by and with the consent of the mu...

...(A) Upon application to the board of county commissioners by an Ohio corporation or corporations, organized for charitable hospital purposes and not for profit, in this section called participating hospital corporations, the board of county commissioners may, after a determination that the preservation of the public health requires additional hospital facilities in the county, appoint a hospital commission of not les...

...The hospital commission of any county or the board of county hospital trustees established pursuant to section 339.02 of the Revised Code may issue revenue obligations of the county pursuant to section 140.06 of the Revised Code.

...(A) A board of trustees of any county hospital may contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure on behalf of any or all of its employees, the employees of the hospital, or such employees and their immediate dependents the following types of fringe benefits: (1) Group or individual insurance contracts which may include life, sickness, accident, disability, annuities, endowment, health, medical expense, hospital, dent...

...(A) Sections 140.03 and 140.05 of the Revised Code are alternatives to sections 339.02 to 339.13 of the Revised Code. Sections 339.02 to 339.14 of the Revised Code are not applicable with respect to hospital facilities and services provided for under leases or agreements entered into pursuant to section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code, except to the extent made applicable by section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revis...

...Notwithstanding the amendment of sections 339.38, 339.39, 339.42, and 339.43 of the Revised Code, the repeal of sections 339.20, 339.21, 339.22, 339.23, 339.231, 339.24, 339.25, 339.26, 339.27, 339.28, 339.29, 339.30, 339.31, 339.32, 339.33, 339.34, 339.35, 339.36, 339.37, 339.40, 339.41, 339.45, 339.46, and 339.99 of the Revised Code, and any other changes made by Substitute Senate Bill No. 173 of the 123rd general ...

...As used in this section and sections 339.72 to 339.89 of the Revised Code: (A) "Active tuberculosis" means tuberculosis that has been demonstrated by clinical, bacteriological, or radiographic evidence to be present in an individual who has not completed an appropriate course of antituberculosis medication, regardless of the stage of communicability of the tuberculosis, and includes both pulmonary and extrapulmonary...

...(A) Each board of county commissioners shall provide for the county to be served by a tuberculosis control unit by designating a county tuberculosis control unit or by entering into an agreement with one or more boards of county commissioners of other counties under which the boards jointly designate a district tuberculosis control unit. The entity designated as the county or district tuberculosis control unit may be...

...Each county or district tuberculosis control unit shall ensure that tuberculosis treatment is made available to all individuals with tuberculosis who reside in the area served by the unit. In making treatment available, the tuberculosis control unit may provide the treatment or make referrals for receipt of treatment from other entities. The unit may make referrals for receipt of temporary housing. The tuberculosis ...

...Each county or district tuberculosis control unit shall establish a tuberculosis record bureau, appoint a director thereof, and appoint such assistants as are required to maintain adequate records with respect to all known cases of tuberculosis within the area served by the unit.

...The board of county commissioners of any county may contract with the board of health of a city or general health district or any hospital or other health care facility for the provision of the tuberculosis treatment specified under section 339.73 of the Revised Code. The board shall pay to the board of health or health care facility with which it contracts the amount provided in the contract.

...The board of county commissioners of any county may establish and maintain one or more tuberculosis clinics in the county and may employ physicians, public health nurses, and other persons for the operation of such clinics or other means as are provided for the prevention, cure, and treatment of tuberculosis. The board may provide by tax levies, or otherwise, the necessary funds for such clinics to be established, ma...

...(A) When a physician completes diagnostic studies confirming that an individual has tuberculosis, the physician shall report the confirmed case of tuberculosis to the county or district tuberculosis control unit. A physician shall make a report to the tuberculosis control unit prior to completion of diagnostic studies if the signs and symptoms demonstrated by an individual are sufficient for the physician to suspect ...

...A county or district tuberculosis control unit shall make a report to the Ohio department of health each time the unit receives a report under section 339.78 of the Revised Code of a suspected or confirmed case of tuberculosis or a case of tuberculosis that is resistant to one or more drugs. If the report pertains to an individual who is not a resident of this state, the department shall make a report to the state o...

...When a county or district tuberculosis control unit receives a report under section 339.78 of the Revised Code of a confirmed or suspected case of tuberculosis, the unit shall conduct an investigation that includes personal contact with the individual with tuberculosis. The investigation shall commence not later than three working days after the unit receives the report.

...Any information, data, and reports with respect to a case of tuberculosis that are furnished to, or procured by, a county or district tuberculosis control unit or the department of health shall be confidential and used only for statistical, scientific, and medical research for the purpose of controlling tuberculosis in this state. No physician, hospital, or other entity furnishing information, data, or reports pursua...

...Except as provided in section 339.89 of the Revised Code, all of the following apply to individuals with tuberculosis: (A)(1) An individual who has been diagnosed as having active tuberculosis shall complete the entire tuberculosis treatment regimen prescribed for the individual by a physician. The regimen prescribed shall include a course of antituberculosis medication, recommendations for management of tuberculosi...

...When a county or district tuberculosis control unit becomes aware that an individual with active or communicable tuberculosis is not in compliance with section 339.82 of the Revised Code, the unit shall inform the individual that section 339.82 of the Revised Code requires compliance and that the unit may issue an order under section 339.84 of the Revised Code compelling the individual to comply.

...If an individual fails to comply with section 339.82 of the Revised Code, the county or district tuberculosis control unit may issue an order compelling the individual to comply.

...If an individual fails to comply with an order issued under section 339.84 of the Revised Code, the county or district tuberculosis control unit may apply to the probate court of the appropriate county for an injunction prohibiting the individual from continuing to violate the unit's order. If the tuberculosis control unit believes that an individual's failure to comply with its order involves an immediate danger to ...

...(A) If an individual fails to comply with an injunction issued under section 339.85 of the Revised Code, the county or district tuberculosis control unit may request that the probate court of the appropriate county issue an order under which the unit is granted the authority to detain the individual in a hospital or other place to be examined or treated for tuberculosis. In the request, the unit shall provide the fol...

...(A) When a tuberculosis control unit has reasonable grounds to believe that an individual who has, or is suspected of having, active tuberculosis poses a substantial danger to the health of other individuals, the tuberculosis control unit may issue an emergency detention order directing a sheriff or other law enforcement officer to remove the individual to a hospital or other place to be examined and treated for tube...

...The expenses incurred for detention under section 339.86 or 339.87 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the individual detained or if the individual is indigent, by the board of county commissioners of the county from which the individual was removed.