Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3701 - Department Of Health

• Section 3701.01 - Department Of Health Definitions.
  As used in sections 3701.01, 3701.04, 3701.08, 3701.09, and 3701.37 to 3701.45 of the Revised Code: (A) "The federal act" means Title VI of...
• Section 3701.02 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §105.01, eff. 9/10/2012. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 3701.021 - Director Of Health To Adopt Rules.
  (A) The director of health shall adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, such rules as are necessary to carry out...
• Section 3701.0211 - Application For Federal Abstinence Education Funds.
  For each year that federal funds are made available to states under Title V of the "Social Security Act," 124 Stat. 352 (2010), 42...
• Section 3701.022 - Medically Handicapped Children Definitions.
  As used in sections 3701.021 to 3701.0210 of the Revised Code: (A) "Medically handicapped child" means an Ohio resident under twenty-one years of age...
• Section 3701.023 - Program For Medically Handicapped Children.
  (A) The department of health shall review applications for eligibility for the program for medically handicapped children that are submitted to the department by...
• Section 3701.024 - County's Share For Program For Medically Handicapped Children.
  (A) (1) Under a procedure established in rules adopted under section 3701.021 of the Revised Code, the department of health shall determine the amount...
• Section 3701.025 - Medically Handicapped Children's Medical Advisory Council.
  There is hereby created the medically handicapped children's medical advisory council consisting of twenty-one members to be appointed by the director of health for...
• Section 3701.026 - Right Of Subrogation Against Liable Third Party.
  (A) The acceptance of assistance under the program for medically handicapped children gives a right of subrogation to the department of health against the...
• Section 3701.027 - Grant Programs.
  The department of health shall administer funds received from the "Maternal and Child Health Block Grant," Title V of the "Social Security Act," 95...
• Section 3701.028 - Confidentiality.
  (A) The following records of the program for medically handicapped children and of programs funded with funds received from the "Maternal and Child Health...
• Section 3701.029 - Hemophilia Program To Provide Payment Of Health Insurance Premiums For Ohio Residents.
  Subject to available funds, the department of health shall establish and administer a hemophilia program to provide payment of health insurance premiums for Ohio...
• Section 3701.0210 - Hemophilia Advisory Subcommittee.
  The medically handicapped children's medical advisory council shall appoint a hemophilia advisory subcommittee to advise the director of health and council on all matters...
• Section 3701.03 - General Duties Of Director Of Health.
  (A) The director of health shall perform duties that are incident to the director's position as chief executive officer of the department of health....
• Section 3701.031 - Federal Grants For Monitoring, Studying And Preventing Pregnancy Losses.
  (A) The director of health shall accept and administer grants received from the federal government or other sources, public or private, that are made...
• Section 3701.032 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §105.01, eff. 9/10/2012. Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.
• Section 3701.033 - Distribution Of Funds For Family Planning Services.
  (A) This section establishes the order of priority to be followed by the department of health when distributing funds for the purpose of providing...
• Section 3701.04 - Director Of Health - Powers And Duties.
  (A) The director of health shall: (1) Require reports and make inspections and investigations that the director considers necessary; (2) Provide administration, appoint personnel,...
• Section 3701.041 - [Renumbered].
  Renumbered as § 124.88 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
• Section 3701.042 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1998
• Section 3701.043 - Medicare Initial Certification Fund - Fees.
  If authorized by federal statute or regulation, the director of health may establish and collect fees for conducting the initial certification of any person...
• Section 3701.044 - Contract To Conduct Competency Examination Or Evaluation.
  When the director of health or department of health is required or authorized to conduct or administer an examination or evaluation of individuals for...
• Section 3701.045 - Child Fatality Review Boards Conducting Reviews.
  (A) The department of health, in consultation with the children's trust fund board established under section 3109.15 of the Revised Code and any bodies...
• Section 3701.046 - Grants For Women's Health Services - Application.
  The director of health is authorized to make grants for women's health services from funds appropriated for that purpose by the general assembly. None...
• Section 3701.047 - Agreement To Promote Federally Qualified Health Centers.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Federally qualified health center" means a health center that receives a federal public health services grant under...
• Section 3701.048 - Protocols For The Administration Of Drugs In A Declared Emergency.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the...
• Section 3701.05 - Annual Report To Health Officials And Public.
  The director of health shall keep health officials and the general public fully informed in a printed annual report in regard to the work...
• Section 3701.06 - Right Of Entry To Investigate Violations.
  The director of health and any person the director authorizes may, without fee or hindrance, enter, examine, and survey all grounds, vehicles, apartments, buildings,...
• Section 3701.07 - Rules Defining And Classifying Hospitals And Dispensaries - Reporting Of Information - Residents' Rights Advocates To Register With Department.
  (A) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code defining and classifying hospitals and dispensaries and...
• Section 3701.071 - Registering And Record Keeping For Nonprofit Shelters And Health Care Facilities.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Free clinic" means a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the "Internal...
• Section 3701.072 - Information Regarding Free Clinics.
  (A) As used in this section, "free clinic" has the same meaning as in section 3701.071 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of...
• Section 3701.073 - Department To Administer Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.
  (A) The department of health is hereby designated as the state agency responsible for administering the medicare rural hospital flexibility program, as established in...
• Section 3701.08 - Duties Of Department Regarding Hospitals And Medical Facilities.
  The department of health constitutes the sole agency of the state for the purpose of: (A) Making an inventory of existing hospitals and medical...
• Section 3701.09 - Program For Construction And Modernization Of Hospitals And Medical Facilities.
  The director of health shall make an inventory of existing hospitals and medical facilities including public, nonprofit, and proprietary hospitals and medical facilities, survey...
• Section 3701.10 - District Health Commissioner May Be Required To Attend School Of Instruction.
  The director of health may require any district health commissioner to attend, immediately after his appointment, a school of instruction to be conducted by...
• Section 3701.11 - Power To Administer Oath.
  The director of health shall have power to administer oaths in all parts of the state so far as the exercise of such power...
• Section 3701.12 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §105.01, eff. 9/10/2012. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 3701.13 - Department Of Health - Powers.
  The department of health shall have supervision of all matters relating to the preservation of the life and health of the people and have...
• Section 3701.131 - Director Of Health - Duties Regarding Sickle Cell Disease.
  The director of health shall: (A) Encourage and assist in the development of programs of education and research pertaining to the causes, detection, and...
• Section 3701.132 - Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants And Children.
  As used in this section, "WIC program" means the "special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children" established under the "Child Nutrition Act...
• Section 3701.133 - Meningococcal Meningitis And Hepatitis B Information.
  (A) The department of health shall make available on its web site information about the risks associated with meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B, the...
• Section 3701.134 - Director Of Health To Provide Means Of Immunization Against Chicken Pox.
  To the extent appropriations made by the general assembly make this possible, the director of health shall provide, for the purpose of section 3313.671...
• Section 3701.135 - Autism Diagnosis Education Pilot Program.
  (A) The autism diagnosis education pilot program is hereby established in the department of health. The program shall have the following goals: (1) To...
• Section 3701.136 - School-based Fluoride Mouth Rinse Program.
  (A) The director of health may establish a school-based fluoride mouth rinse program. If the director establishes the program, divisions (B) to (E) of...
• Section 3701.137 - Promotion Of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Education.
  (A) As used in this section, "complex regional pain syndrome" or "CRPS," also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, means a debilitating and progressively...
• Section 3701.14 - Special Duties Of Director Of Health.
  (A) The director of health shall investigate or make inquiry as to the cause of disease or illness, including contagious, infectious, epidemic, pandemic, or...
• Section 3701.141 - Office Of Women's Health Initiatives.
  (A) There is hereby created in the department of health the women's health program, . (B) To the extent funds are available, the women's...
• Section 3701.142 - Rules For Community Health Workers.
  (C) The director of health, in consultation with the medicaid director, shall adopt rules specifying The urban and rural communities, identified by zip code...
• Section 3701.143 - Analyzing Blood, Urine, Breath Or Other Bodily Substance To Determine Alcohol Or Drug Of Abuse Content.
  For purposes of sections 1547.11, 4511.19, and 4511.194 of the Revised Code, the director of health shall determine, or cause to be determined, techniques...
• Section 3701.144 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-26-2003
• Section 3701.145 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3701.0210.
  Effective Date: 09-26-2003
• Section 3701.146 - Duties And Powers Regarding Tuberculosis.
  (A) In taking actions regarding tuberculosis, the director of health has all of the following duties and powers: (1) The director shall maintain registries...
• Section 3701.15 - Annual Report.
  Each year, the director of health shall make a report to the governor, which shall include so much of the proceedings of the department...
• Section 3701.16 - Purchase, Storage, Distribution Of Pharmaceutical Agents Or Medical Supplies For Public Health Emergency.
  The director of health may purchase, store, and distribute antitoxins, serums, vaccines, immunizing agents, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies that the...
• Section 3701.161 - Diphtheria Antitoxin.
  The director of health shall make necessary arrangements for the production and distribution of diphtheria antitoxin. Such antitoxin shall in all respects be equal...
• Section 3701.162 - Antitoxin For Indigent Persons.
  Any licensed physician practicing in this state, or the superintendent of any state or county institution, may receive without charge the quantities of antitoxin...
• Section 3701.17 - Protected Health Information.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Protected health information"...
• Section 3701.18 - Testing Bacteria Level Of Water Adjacent To Public Swimming Beaches.
  The director of health shall establish techniques and procedures as appropriate for use by the division of parks and recreation in the department of...
• Section 3701.181 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-07-1993
• Section 3701.19 - Poison Control Network Definitions.
  As used in sections 3701.19 to 3701.201 of the Revised Code: (A) "Poison prevention and treatment center" means an entity designated as a poison...
• Section 3701.20 - Poison Control Network - Purposes.
  (A) In accordance with rules adopted under division (C) of this section, the director of health shall establish, promote, and maintain the Ohio poison...
• Section 3701.201 - Rules For Reporting Bioterrorism, Epidemic Or Pandemic Disease, Infectious Agents, Toxins Posing Risk Of Human Fatality Or Disability.
  (A) As used in this section, "bioterrorism" has the same meaning as in section 3701.232 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health...
• Section 3701.21 - Save Our Sight Fund.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Amblyopia" means reduced vision in an eye that has not received adequate use during early childhood. (2)...
• Section 3701.22 - Public Health Laboratory.
  The department of health shall maintain a public health laboratory for the following: (A) Examination of public water supplies and the effluent of sewage...
• Section 3701.221 - Chemical And Bacteriological Laboratory.
  (A) The director of health shall have charge of the public health laboratory authorized by section 3701.22 of the Revised Code. The director may...
• Section 3701.23 - Reporting Contagious Or Infectious Diseases, Illnesses, Health Conditions, Or Unusual Infectious Agents Or Biological Toxins.
  (A) As used in this section, "health care provider" means any person or government entity that provides health care services to individuals. "Health care...
• Section 3701.231 - Laboratory Compliance With Reporting And Confidentiality Requirements.
  If a medical laboratory outside this state performs a test or other diagnostic or investigative analysis that results in information pertaining to a resident...
• Section 3701.232 - Reporting Significant Changes In Medication Usage That May Be Caused By Bioterrorism, Epidemic Or Pandemic Disease.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bioterrorism" means the intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product that may be...
• Section 3701.24 - Report As To Contagious Or Infectious Diseases - Aids And Hiv.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 3701.241 to 3701.249 of the Revised Code: (1) "AIDS" means the illness designated as acquired immunodeficiency...
• Section 3701.241 - Director To Develop And Administer Aids And Hiv Related Programs.
  (A) The director of health shall develop and administer the following: (1) A surveillance system to determine the number of cases of AIDS and...
• Section 3701.242 - Informed Consent To Hiv Test Required.
  (A) An HIV test may be performed by or on the order of a health care provider who, in the exercise of the provider's...
• Section 3701.243 - Disclosing Of Hiv Test Results Or Diagnosis.
  (A) Except as provided in this section or section 3701.248 of the Revised Code, no person or agency of state or local government that...
• Section 3701.244 - Civil Actions.
  (A) As used in this section, "violation" means an occasion of noncompliance involving a single injured individual. (B) A person or an agency of...
• Section 3701.245 - Public Agencies May Not Require Hiv Results To Obtain Services.
  (A) No state agency as defined in section 1.60 of the Revised Code, political subdivision, agency of local government, or private nonprofit corporation receiving...
• Section 3701.246 - Hiv Testing Of Donated Body Parts Or Fluids.
  Any human body part donated for transplantation, including an organ, tissue, eye, bone, artery, or other part, and any body fluid donated for transfusion...
• Section 3701.247 - Order Compelling Hiv Testing.
  (A) (1) Any of the following persons may bring an action in a probate court for an order compelling another person to undergo HIV...
• Section 3701.248 - Emergency Medical Or Funeral Services Worker Exposed To Contagious Or Infectious Disease May Request Notice Of Test Results.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Contagious or infectious disease" means a disease specified in rules adopted by the director of health pursuant...
• Section 3701.249 - Immunity Of Employer.
  (A) As used in this section, "employer" and "employee" have the same meanings as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The employer...
• Section 3701.2410 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-02-1996
• Section 3701.25 - Occupational Diseases - Report By Physician To Department Of Health.
  (A) Every physician attending on or called in to visit a patient whom the physician believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, cadmium,...
• Section 3701.26 - Blanks For Report Furnished.
  The department of health shall prepare and furnish, free of cost, to the physicians included in section 3701.25 of the Revised Code and to...
• Section 3701.261 - Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System.
  (A) As used in this section, "state university" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of...
• Section 3701.262 - Cancer Incidence Surveillance System Rules.
  (A) As used in this section : (1) "Physician" means a person who holds a valid certificate issued under Chapter 4731. of the Revised...
• Section 3701.263 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 11-11-1991
• Section 3701.264 - Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System Advisory Board.
  There is hereby created the Ohio cancer incidence surveillance system advisory board. The board shall consist of the director of health, who shall serve...
• Section 3701.27 - Copy Of Reports To Be Transmitted To Administrator Of Workers' Compensation.
  The department of health shall transmit a copy of all reports of occupational disease, required to be filed by section 3701.25 of the Revised...
• Section 3701.28 - Powers Of Department When Local Authorities Fail To Act.
  When a contagious or infectious disease becomes or threatens to become epidemic in a municipal corporation or township, and the local authorities neglect or...
• Section 3701.29 - Annual Conference - Expenses.
  The department of health shall make provision for annual conferences of district health commissioners for the consideration of the cause and prevention of dangerous...
• Section 3701.30 - Blood Bank For Civilian Use.
  The department of health may devise a suitable program for establishing a blood bank for civilian use, embracing if necessary, methods for the registration...
• Section 3701.31 - Administration Of Blood Bank.
  In formulating and administering the blood bank program, the department of health may establish necessary standards, promulgate necessary rules and regulations, utilize the facilities...
• Section 3701.32 - Rooms Provided.
  Suitable rooms for conducting the business of the department of health shall be provided and maintained by the state. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 3701.33 - Ohio Public Health Advisory Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio public health advisory board. The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The following members appointed...
• Section 3701.34 - Ohio Public Health Advisory Board; Powers And Duties.
  (A) The Ohio public health advisory board shall review and make recommendations to the director of health on all of the following: (1) Developing...
• Section 3701.341 - Rules Relating To Abortions.
  (A) The director of health , pursuant to Chapter 119. and consistent with section 2317.56 of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules relating to...
• Section 3701.342 - Minimum Standards And Optimum Achievable Standards For Boards Of Health And Local Health Departments.
  The director of health shall adopt rules establishing minimum standards and optimum achievable standards for boards of health and local health departments. The minimum...
• Section 3701.343 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §101.01, eff. 9/10/2012....
• Section 3701.344 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Rules For Private Water Systems.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 3701.345, 3701.346, and 3701.347 of the Revised Code , "private water system" means any water system...
• Section 3701.344 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Rules For Private Water Systems.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 3701.345, 3701.346, and 3701.347 of the Revised Code, "private water system" means any water system for...
• Section 3701.345 - Applying For Variance From Rules.
  Any applicant for a permit to construct, develop, install, or modify a private water system required by rules adopted by the director of health...
• Section 3701.346 - Private Water Systems Advisory Council.
  There is hereby created within the department of health the private water systems advisory council. The council shall have nine members, who shall be...
• Section 3701.347 - Rules To Remain In Effect Until Repealed Or Superseded.
  Notwithstanding division (E) of section 6111.42 of the Revised Code, rules adopted under such division and in effect on December 14, 1978, shall continue...
• Section 3701.35 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §105.01, eff. 9/10/2012. Effective Date: 02-12-2004
• Section 3701.351 - Standards, Procedures For Hospital Staff Membership.
  (A) The governing body of every hospital shall set standards and procedures to be applied by the hospital and its medical staff in considering...
• Section 3701.352 - Violations Prohibited.
  No person shall violate any rule the director of health or department of health adopts or any order the director or department of health...
• Section 3701.36 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-02-1996
• Section 3701.37 - Construction And Modernization Program To Provide Adequate Hospital And Medical Facilities For People In State.
  The state construction and modernization program shall provide, in accordance with regulations prescribed under the federal act, for adequate hospital and medical facilities for...
• Section 3701.38 - Application To Surgeon General For Federal Funds.
  The director of health may make application to the surgeon general for federal funds to assist in carrying out the survey and planning activities...
• Section 3701.39 - Submission Of State Plan To Surgeon General - Publicity And Public Hearing Of Plan.
  The director of health shall prepare and submit to the surgeon general a state plan which shall include the hospital and medical facilities construction...
• Section 3701.40 - Minimum Standards For Hospitals Receiving Federal Aid.
  The director of health shall by rule prescribe minimum standards for the maintenance and operation of hospitals and medical facilities which shall receive federal...
• Section 3701.41 - Priority Of Construction And Modernization.
  The state plan provided for by section 3701.39 of the Revised Code shall set forth the relative need for the several projects included in...
• Section 3701.42 - Application For Construction Or Modernization Projects.
  Applications for grants, loans, or loan guarantees under the federal act for hospital and medical facilities construction or modernization projects shall be submitted to...
• Section 3701.43 - Hearing To Be Given Applicant.
  The director of health shall afford to every applicant for a construction project an opportunity for a fair hearing. If the director, after affording...
• Section 3701.44 - Inspection Of Construction Projects - Certification To Surgeon General.
  The director of health shall inspect each construction project approved by the surgeon general and, if the inspection so warrants, the director shall certify...
• Section 3701.45 - Hospital And Medical Facilities Construction Fund - Federal Grant Funds.
  The director of health may receive federal grant funds in behalf of, and transmit them to, applicants for hospital and medical facilities construction and...
• Section 3701.46 - Statement On Certificate.
  In reporting every birth and fetal death, physicians, certified nurse-midwives, and others required to make the reports shall state on the birth or fetal...
• Section 3701.47 - Standard Tests For Syphilis And Gonorrhea.
  As used in sections 3701.46 to 3701.50 of the Revised Code, the standard tests for syphilis and gonorrhea are tests approved by the department...
• Section 3701.48 - Laboratory Report.
  The approved laboratory making the standard tests for syphilis and gonorrhea shall make a report to the physician or health commissioner submitting the specimens....
• Section 3701.49 - Duty In Case Physician Is Not In Attendance.
  If any pregnant woman is attended during the period of gestation by any person authorized to attend pregnant women, other than a licensed physician,...
• Section 3701.50 - Duty Of Physician To Submit Specimens For Tests - Health Commissioner May Waive Requirements.
  Every physician who attends any pregnant woman for conditions relating to pregnancy during the period of gestation shall take specimens of such woman at...
• Section 3701.501 - Newborns Screened For Genetic, Endocrine, And Metabolic Disorders.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, all newborn children shall be screened for the presence of the genetic, endocrine,...
• Section 3701.502 - Programs Of Education, Detection, And Treatment Of Genetic Diseases.
  The director of health shall do all of the following: (A) Encourage and assist in the development of programs of education, detection, and treatment...
• Section 3701.503 - Testing Newborns Definitions.
  As used in sections 3701.504 to 3701.509 of the Revised Code: (A) "Parent" means either parent, unless the parents are separated or divorced or...
• Section 3701.504 - Program To Identify Newborn And Infant Hearing Impairment.
  (A) The department of health shall establish and maintain a statewide hearing screening, tracking, and early intervention program to identify newborn and infant hearing...
• Section 3701.505 - Hospitals And Freestanding Birthing Centers Duties Concerning Hearing Screening.
  (A) (1) Each hospital and each freestanding birthing center shall do all of the following: (a) Conduct a hearing screening on each newborn or...
• Section 3701.506 - Preparing And Distributing Of Information Concerning Hearing Loss.
  The department of health shall prepare and distribute to all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers required to provide hearing screenings under the program established...
• Section 3701.507 - Infant Hearing Screening Subcommittee.
  (A) To assist in implementing sections 3701.503 to 3701.509 of the Revised Code, the medically handicapped children's medical advisory council created in section 3701.025...
• Section 3701.508 - Statewide Hearing Screening, Tracking, And Early Intervention Program Rules.
  (A) The director of health shall adopt rules governing the statewide hearing screening, tracking, and early intervention program established under section 3701.504 of the...
• Section 3701.509 - Analyzing And Interpreting Hearing Screening Information.
  (A) The department of health shall develop a mechanism to analyze and interpret the hearing screening information to be reported under division (B) of...
• Section 3701.5010 - Critical Congenital Heart Defects Screening.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Critical congenital heart defects screening" means the identification of a newborn that may have a critical congenital...
• Section 3701.51 - Inflammation Of The Eyes Of The Newborn And Gonorrheal Ophthalmia.
  Any inflammation, swelling, or redness in either one or both eyes of any infant, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from...
• Section 3701.511 - Use Of Program Funds To Counsel Or Refer For Abortion.
  None of the funds appropriated to administer the programs authorized by sections 3701.501 and 3701.502 of the Revised Code shall be used to counsel...
• Section 3701.52 - Condition To Be Reported.
  Every physician, surgeon, obstetrician, certified nurse-midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital of any nature, parent, relative, or any others attendant on any person with...
• Section 3701.53 - Duties Of Health Commissioner.
  The health commissioner of a city or general health district shall: (A) Investigate each case of inflammation of eyes of the newborn or gonorrheal...
• Section 3701.54 - Duties Of Department Of Health.
  The department of health shall: (A) Enforce sections 3701.51 to 3701.55 of the Revised Code; (B) Promulgate rules as necessary for the purpose of...
• Section 3701.55 - Use Of Prophylactic Against Inflammation - Record.
  Every physician, certified nurse-midwife, or other person in attendance at childbirth shall, immediately after the birth, use in the eyes of the newborn child...
• Section 3701.56 - Enforcement Of Rules And Regulations.
  Boards of health of a general or city health district, health authorities and officials, officers of state institutions, police officers, sheriffs, constables, and other...
• Section 3701.57 - Prosecutions And Proceedings - Injunctive Or Other Relief.
  All prosecutions and proceedings by the department of health for the violation of sections 3701.01 to 3701.56, 3705.01 to 3705.29, 3707.06, 3709.01 to 3709.04,...
• Section 3701.571 - Establishing Graduated System Of Fines.
  (A) The director of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a graduated system of fines based...
• Section 3701.58 - Prosecuting Attorney To Prosecute Violations.
  The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all violations of sections 3701.51 to 3701.55 and 3705.01 to 3705.29 of the Revised Code. Effective Date: 03-16-1989
• Section 3701.59 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-23-1972
• Section 3701.60 - Offer Of Uterine Cytologic Examination For Cancer To Every Female In-patient.
  Every hospital agency, as defined in section 140.01 of the Revised Code, may offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient...
• Section 3701.601 - Breast And Cervical Cancer Project Income Tax Contribution Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the breast and cervical cancer project income tax contribution fund, which shall consist of money contributed...
• Section 3701.602 - Wishes For Sick Children Income Tax Contribution Fund.
  (A) As used in this section, "eligible nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that meets all of the following requirements: (1) The nonprofit corporation...
• Section 3701.61 - Help Me Grow Program.
  (A) The department of health shall establish the help me grow program to encourage early prenatal and well-baby care, provide parenting education to promote...
• Section 3701.611 - Help Me Grow Advisory Council.
  (A) The governor shall create the help me grow advisory council in accordance with 20 U.S.C. 1441, which shall serve as the state interagency...
• Section 3701.62 - Data Verification Code For Help Me Grow Students.
  The director of health shall request a student data verification code from the independent contractor engaged by the department of education to create and...
• Section 3701.63 - Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Program.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 3701.64, 3701.66, and 3701.67 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child day-care center," "type A family day-care...
• Section 3701.64 - Distribution Of Shaken Baby Syndrome Educational Materials.
  (A) A copy of the shaken baby syndrome educational materials developed under section 3701.63 of the Revised Code shall be distributed in the following...
• Section 3701.65 - Choose Life Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the "choose life" fund. The fund shall consist of the contributions that are paid to...
• Section 3701.66 - Safe Sleep Education Program.
  (A) As used in this section, "sudden unexpected infant death" means the death of an infant that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, the cause of...
• Section 3701.67 - Infant Safe Sleep Screening Procedure.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Contractor" means a person who provides personal services pursuant to a contract. (2) "Critical access hospital" means...
• Section 3701.68 - Commission On Infant Mortality.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Academic medical center" means a medical school and its affiliated teaching hospitals. (2) "State registrar" has the...
• Section 3701.69 - Down Syndrome Information Sheet.
  (A) (1) The department of health shall create a Down syndrome information sheet that includes all of the following: (a) A description of Down...
• Section 3701.70 - Guidelines For A State-level Review Of Deaths Of Resident Children Under Eighteen Years Of Age.
  (A) The director of health shall establish guidelines for a state-level review of deaths of children under eighteen years of age who, at the...
• Section 3701.701 - Summary Sheet.
  (A) (1) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, public children services agency, private child...
• Section 3701.702 - Immunity.
  (A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to the director of health pursuant to guidelines established under section...
• Section 3701.703 - Confidentiality.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and sections 5153.171 to 5153.173 of the Revised Code, any information, document, or report...
• Section 3701.71 - Minimum Standards For Voluntary And Governmental Hospitals.
  To comply with the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950, known as Public Law 734-81 st Congress, the Ohio department of health is hereby...
• Section 3701.72 - Department To Adopt Rules And Regulations To Establish And Maintain Minimum Standards.
  Subject to the provisions of sections 119.01 to 119.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the Ohio department of health shall have the power to...
• Section 3701.73 - Exceptions To Act.
  Sections 3701.71 and 3701.72 of the Revised Code shall not be applicable to institutions licensed or approved under other existing statutes. Effective Date: 01-10-1961
• Section 3701.74 - Patient Or Patient's Representative To Submit Request To Examine Or Obtain Copy Of Medical Record.
  (A) As used in this section and section 3701.741 of the Revised Code: (1) "Ambulatory care facility" means a facility that provides medical, diagnostic,...
• Section 3701.741 - Fees For Providing Copies Of Medical Records.
  (A) Each health care provider and medical records company shall provide copies of medical records in accordance with this section. (B) Except as provided...
• Section 3701.742 - Consumer Price Index Adjustment To Fees For Providing Medical Records.
  The amounts specified in division (B) of section 3701.741 of the Revised Code shall be adjusted annually in accordance with this section. These amounts...
• Section 3701.75 - Authenticating Health Care Records.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Electronic record" means a record communicated, received, or stored by electronic, magnetic, optical, or similar means for...
• Section 3701.76 - Programs To Raise Awareness Of Hazards Of Nonsteroidal Synthetic Estrogens - Annual Report Of Director.
  (A) The director of health shall establish and maintain a statewide public information campaign on the effects of diethylstilbestrol or other nonsteroidal synthetic estrogens...
• Section 3701.77 - Lupus Education And Awareness Program.
  (A) The department of health may establish, promote, and maintain a lupus education and awareness program with an emphasis on at-risk communities to raise...
• Section 3701.771 - Needs Assessment Regarding Lupus.
  (A) (1) The department of health may conduct a needs assessment to identify all of the following: (a) The level of statewide health professional...
• Section 3701.772 - Program To Award Grants For Lupus Diagnosis, Treatment, And Therapeutic Decision-making.
  (A) The department of health may establish a program to award grants to educate and train physicians, health professionals, and other service providers on...
• Section 3701.773 - Coordination Of Lupus Education And Awareness Efforts.
  (A) If the department of health establishes the intergovernmental council as permitted by division (B)(3) of section 3701.77 of the Revised Code, the department...
• Section 3701.774 - Advisory Panel.
  (A) If the department of health establishes the advisory panel as permitted by division (B)(3) of section 3701.77 of the Revised Code, the department...
• Section 3701.775 - Lupus Education And Awareness Program Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the lupus education and awareness program fund. If the department of health establishes the lupus education...
• Section 3701.78 - Commission On Minority Health.
  (A) There is hereby created the commission on minority health, consisting of twenty-one members. The governor shall appoint to the commission nine members from...
• Section 3701.79 - Physician, Hospital, And Department Abortion Reports.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Abortion" has the same meaning as in section 2919.11 of the Revised Code. (2) "Abortion report" means...
• Section 3701.791 - Notice To Be Posted Where Abortions Performed.
  (A) As used in this section, "medical emergency" means a condition of a pregnant woman that, in the reasonable judgment of the physician who...
• Section 3701.80 - Cooperation For Health And Sanitary Practices Of Meal Preparation And Service For Type A Family Day-care Homes.
  The department of health shall cooperate with the director of job and family services when the director promulgates rules pursuant to Chapter 5104. of...
• Section 3701.81 - Exposing Others To Contagion.
  (A) No person, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that he is suffering from a dangerous, contagious disease, shall knowingly fail to take...
• Section 3701.82 - Rules And Prohibitions For Use Of Burners Or Heaters.
  (A) A brazier, salamander, space heater, room heater, furnace, water heater, or other burner or heater using wood, coal, coke, fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline,...
• Section 3701.83 - General Operations Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the general operations fund. Moneys in the fund shall be used for the purposes specified in...
• Section 3701.831 - Director To Assess Operating Funds To Pay Share Of Department's Administrative Costs.
  The director of health may assess the operating funds of the department to pay a share of the department's administrative costs. The assessments shall...
• Section 3701.832 - Department Of Health Medicaid Fund.
  There is created in the state treasury the department of health medicaid fund. All funds the department of health receives for the purpose of...
• Section 3701.834 - Public Health Emergency Preparedness Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the public health emergency preparedness fund. All federal funds the department of health receives to conduct...
• Section 3701.84 - Plan For Reduction Of Tobacco Use.
  The department of health may prepare a plan to reduce tobacco use by Ohioans, with emphasis on reducing the use of tobacco by youth,...
• Section 3701.841 - Tobacco Use Prevention Fund.
  The tobacco use prevention fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money deposited by the treasurer of state...
• Section 3701.85 - Automated External Defibrillator - Requirements For Use.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Automated external defibrillation" has the same meaning as in section 2305.235 of the Revised Code. (2) "Emergency...
• Section 3701.86 - Anatomical Pathology Services Billing Definitions.
  As used in this section and in section 3701.861 of the Revised Code: (A) "Anatomic pathology services" means all of the following: (1) Histopathology...
• Section 3701.861 - Laboratory Bill For Anatomical Pathology Services.
  (A) No clinical laboratory shall present or cause to be presented a claim, bill, or demand for payment for anatomic pathology services to any...
• Section 3701.87 - Agreement To Review Proposed Capital Expenditures By Health Care Facilities.
  The governor may authorize the department of health to enter into an agreement on behalf of the state with the United States secretary of...
• Section 3701.88 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-05-2001
• Section 3701.881 - Criminal Records Check.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Applicant" means a person who is under final consideration for employment with a home health agency in...
• Section 3701.89 - Ohio Medical Quality Foundation.
  (A) There is hereby re-created a foundation as described in section 170 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C....
• Section 3701.90 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.901 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.902 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.903 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.904 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.905 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.906 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.907 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 02-13-2001
• Section 3701.91 - Toll-free Patient Safety Telephone Line.
  The department of health shall make available to the public a toll-free patient safety telephone line. The department may make the toll-free patient safety...
• Section 3701.911 To 3701.914 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3748.06, 3748.07, 3748.12, 3748.10.
  Effective Date: 09-08-1995
• Section 3701.915 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3748.121.
  Effective Date: 03-22-2001
• Section 3701.92 - Definitions Relating To Patient Centered Medical Home Education.
  As used in sections 3701.921 to 3701.929 of the Revised Code: (A) "Advanced practice registered nurse" has the same meaning as in section 4723.01...
• Section 3701.921 - Patient Centered Medical Home Education Program.
  There is hereby established the patient centered medical home education program in the department of health. For the purpose of advancing education in the...
• Section 3701.922 - Implementation By Director.
  (A) The director of health may do any of the following to implement and administer the patient centered medical home education program: (1) Develop...
• Section 3701.923 - Patient Centered Medical Home Education Pilot Project.
  (A) To the extent that funds are available, the director of health shall establish the patient centered medical home education pilot project. If the...
• Section 3701.924 - Patient Centered Medical Home Education Advisory Group.
  (A) The patient centered medical home education advisory group is hereby created for the purpose of advising the director of health on the implementation...
• Section 3701.925 - Applications From Primary Care Practices With Educational Affiliations.
  (A) The patient centered medical home education advisory group shall accept applications for inclusion in the patient centered medical home education pilot project from...
• Section 3701.926 - Eligibility Requirements.
  (A) To be eligible for inclusion in the patient centered medical home education pilot project, a primary care practice led by physicians shall meet...
• Section 3701.927 - Contracts With Selected Practices; Terms And Conditions.
  The director of health shall enter into a contract with each primary care practice selected by the director for inclusion in the patient centered...
• Section 3701.928 - Development Of Curricula.
  (A) The director of health or, at the director's request, the patient centered medical home education advisory group may work with medical, nursing, and...
• Section 3701.929 - Reports.
  (A) If the director of health establishes the patient centered medical home education pilot project, the director shall prepare reports of its findings and...
• Section 3701.93 - Ohio Violent Death Reporting System.
  Subject to available funds, the director of health shall establish the Ohio violent death reporting system to collect and maintain information, data, and records...
• Section 3701.931 - Purpose Of System.
  The Ohio violent death reporting system shall do all of the following regarding violent death information, data, and records maintained in the system: (A)...
• Section 3701.9310 - Confidential Information.
  Except as otherwise provided in section 3701.9212 of the Revised Code, all of the following are not public records under section 149.43 of the...
• Section 3701.9311 - Information Not Subject To Subpoena Or Discovery.
  Information, data, and records collected for use and maintained by, and all work products created in carrying out the purposes of, the Ohio violent...
• Section 3701.9312 - Standards And Procedures For Accessing Information.
  The director of health, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall establish standards and procedures to make...
• Section 3701.9314 - Adoption Of Rules.
  The director of health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary to establish, maintain, and carry out the...
• Section 3701.932 - Violent Death Advisory Group.
  The director of health shall establish an advisory group of interested parties and stakeholders to recommend actions to relevant entities to prevent violent deaths,...
• Section 3701.933 - Data Collection Model.
  The data collection model used by the Ohio violent death reporting system shall follow the data collection model used by the United States centers...
• Section 3701.934 - Specification Of Type, Sources, And Methods Of Collecting Data.
  The director of health, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall do all of the following: (A)...
• Section 3701.935 - Collection From Existing Sources.
  The director of health shall collect information about violent deaths in Ohio only from existing sources related to violent crimes and shall not conduct...
• Section 3701.936 - Provision Of Data By State Agencies.
  At the request of the director of health, every department, agency, and political subdivision of the state shall provide information, data, records, and otherwise...
• Section 3701.937 - Provision Of Data By Other Entities And Individuals.
  At the request of the director of health, any individual or entity not specified in section 3701.936 of the Revised Code, at the individual's...
• Section 3701.938 - Duty To Provide Information.
  Notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, public social service agency, or public agency that provides services to individuals...
• Section 3701.94 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-28-1985
• Section 3701.94 - Patient Centered Medical Home Program.
  There is hereby established the patient centered medical home program in the department of health. The patient centered medical home model of care is...
• Section 3701.96 - Fees For Zoonotic Disease Programs.
  As used in this section, "board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or an authority having...
• Section 3701.941 - Voluntary Patient Centered Medical Home Certification Program.
  (A) As part of the patient centered medical home program established under section 3701.94 of the Revised Code, the department of health shall establish...
• Section 3701.942 - Reporting Requirements For Certified Patient Centered Medical Homes.
  (A) Each certified patient centered medical home shall report health care quality and performance information to the department of health, including any data necessary...
• Section 3701.943 - Report To Governor And General Assembly.
  (A) The department of health shall submit a report to the governor and, in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code, the general...
• Section 3701.944 - Rules.
  The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) Considering...
• Section 3701.95 - Programs To Reduce Negative Birth Outcomes And Disparities Among Women Of Racial Or Ethnic Minority; Assessments.
  (A) As used in this section, "government program providing public benefits" has the same meaning as in section 191.01 of the Revised Code. (B)...
• Section 3701.96 To 3701.97 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3748.19, 3748.14, 3748.17.
  Effective Date: 09-08-1995
• Section 3701.98 - Standards, Policies And Procedures.
  Not later than July 1, 2014, the director of health shall establish both of the following by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the...
• Section 3701.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (C) of section 3701.23, division (C) of section 3701.232, division (C) of section 3701.24, division (B) of section 3701.25, division...

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