Ohio Administrative Code

19.03 PDF: (A) A provider of a hospice care program may arrange for another person or public agency to furnish a component or components of the hospice care program pursuant to a written contract in compliance with 42 C.F.R. 418.64 (2008).(B) Any contract executed under paragraph…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall use trained volunteers to assist with the provision of administrative or direct patient care services and shall have trained volunteers available to provide services to hospice patients and the patients' families as needed. Volunteer…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall provide nursing care and services by or under the supervision of a registered nurse. The program shall direct and staff nursing services to meet the nursing needs of all of the hospice care program's patients. The program shall speci…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall make medical social services available to each patient and the patient's family as needed. Medical social services shall be provided by a social worker under the direction of a physician. For the purposes of this rule, a physician's …

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall provide or make available home care services in the scope and frequency required to meet the needs of the hospice care program's patients and their families. Home care services include assistance with activities of daily living, pers…

19.03 PDF: (A) A hospice care patient may identify their own attending physician or may designate the hospice care program medical director or another hospice care program physician to be their attending physician.(B) Each hospice care program shall provide:(1) Effective palliati…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall make available counseling services to the hospice patient and the hospice patient's family. Counseling services shall include dietary, spiritual, bereavement and any other necessary counseling services while the patient is enrolled i…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall provide or arrange for the provision of physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech or language therapy unless the provision of those services is waived by the director pursuant to division (A)(7) of section 3712.03 of the Revi…

19.03 PDF: (A) A hospice care program shall not admit any individual who does not meet the diagnosis and life expectancy requirements of a hospice patient defined in paragraph (K) of rule 3701-19-01 of the Administrative Code.(B) A hospice care program shall admit patients, provi…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall arrange for provision of medical supplies, appliances, drugs, and biologicals to hospice patients as needed for the palliation and management of the patient's terminal illness and related conditions. The program shall ensure that dru…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall provide or arrange for the provision of short-term inpatient care to patients who require it for pain control, symptom management, or respite care.(1) The program may operate its own inpatient facility or may contract with one or mor…

19.03 PDF: (A) A hospice care program that operates an inpatient hospice facility or unit may admit non-hospice palliative care patients to the inpatient hospice facility or unit for medically necessary care on a short-term basis in accordance with section 3712.10 of the Revised …

19.03 PDF: (A) Each hospice care program shall establish and maintain a central clinical record for each hospice patient receiving care and services from the program and his or her family. The record shall be established and maintained in accordance with accepted standards of pra…

19.03 PDF: (A) The director may grant a variance or waiver from any requirement established by Chapter 3701-19 of the Administrative Code, unless the requirement is mandated by statute.(B) A hospice care program seeking a variance or waiver must submit a written request to the di…

19.03 PDF: As used in rules 3701-19-30 to 3701-19-52 of the Administrative Code:(A) "Advanced Practice Nurse" means a registered nurse authorized to practice as a certified nurse specialist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, certified nurse midwife or certified nurse practi…

19.03 PDF: (A) Every person or public agency that proposes to provide a pediatric respite care program is obligated to apply to the director for a license in accordance with rule 3701-19-31 of the Administrative Code.(B) Except as provided in paragraph (C) of this rule, no person…

19.03 PDF: (A) Application for license as a pediatric respite care program shall be made on forms prescribed and provided by the director shall include such information as the director requests, including the information prescribed by paragraph (C) of this rule, and shall be acco…

19.03 PDF: (A) The director may grant a license for provision of a pediatric respite care program to an applicant that complies with Chapter 3712. of the Revised Code and this chapter. A pediatric respite care program is licensed to provide:(1) Short-term inpatient care, includin…

19.03 PDF: (A) Prior to issuing a license for a pediatric respite care program, the director will conduct an announced licensure inspection of the applicant's facilities and services.(B) The director will conduct an unannounced licensure inspection of each licensed pediatric resp…

19.03 PDF: (A) The department of health will petition the court of common pleas of any county in which a person or public agency, without a license granted under section 3712.041 of the Revised Code, is holding itself out as providing a pediatric respite care program, is providin…

19.03 PDF: (A) Any person or public agency licensed under section 3712.041 of the Revised Code and this chapter to provide a pediatric respite care program is obligated to:(1) Provide a planned and continuous pediatric respite care program, the medical components of which are und…

19.03 PDF: (A) The overall conduct and operation of the pediatric respite care program, including the quality of care and the provision of services, are the full legal responsibility of a clearly defined, organized governing body.(B) The governing body of a licensed hospice care …

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program is obligated to utilize personnel that have appropriate training and qualifications for the services that they provide. Any staff member, including a volunteer, who functions in a professional capacity, is obligated to meet the s…

19.03 PDF: (A) The medical director of a pediatric respite care program will be a physician with overall responsibility for the medical component of the program.(B) The duties of the medical director include:(1) Reviewing patient medical eligibility for pediatric respite care ser…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program is obligated to have an interdisciplinary team or teams that provides or supervises the provision of pediatric respite care and services. The governing body of the pediatric respite care program is obligated to designate a regist…

19.03 PDF: (A) A provider of a pediatric respite care program may arrange for another person or public agency to furnish a component or components of the pediatric respite care program pursuant to a written contract.(B) When a provider of a pediatric respite care program arranges…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program may use volunteers to assist with the provision of administrative or direct patient care services and may have trained volunteers available to pediatric respite patients and pediatric respite patients' families as needed. Volunte…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program will provide nursing care and services by or under the supervision of a registered nurse. The program will direct and staff nursing services to meet the nursing needs of all of the pediatric respite care program's patients. The p…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program will make medical social services available to each patient and his or her family as needed. Medical social services will be provided by a social worker under the direction of a physician.(B) The medical social service needs of e…

19.03 PDF: (A) A pediatric respite care patient may identify his or her own attending physician or may designate the pediatric respite care program medical director to be their attending physician.(B) Each pediatric respite care program will provide or coordinate:(1) Effective pa…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program will provide counseling services to the pediatric respite patient and the pediatric respite patient's family upon request. Counseling services will include dietary, spiritual, bereavement and any other necessary counseling servic…

19.03 PDF: (A) A pediatric respite care program won't admit any individual who does not meet the definition of a pediatric respite patient.(B) A pediatric respite care program will admit patients, provide care and services, and discharge or transfer patients without discriminatio…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each new pediatric respite care program facility will be inspected by the director to determine compliance with provisions of this rule. The new pediatric respite care program facility won't admit patients until the director has determined that the facility is in c…

19.03 PDF: (A) A pediatric respite care program will ensure that nursing services are available twenty-four hours per day and seven days a week in each facility used to provide care to its patients.(1) These services will be sufficient enough to meet the nursing needs of the pedi…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program will establish and maintain a clinical record for each pediatric respite care patient receiving care and services from the program and his or her family. The record will be established and maintained in a central location in acco…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each pediatric respite care program will arrange for provision of medical supplies, appliances, drugs, and biologicals to pediatric respite patients as needed for the palliation and management of the patient's life-threatening disease or condition and related condi…

19.03 PDF: (A) The director may grant a variance or waiver from any requirement established in rules 3701-19-30 to 3701-19-52 of the Administrative Code, unless the requirement is mandated by statute.(B) A pediatric respite care program seeking a variance or waiver will submit a …

19.03 PDF: As used in Chapter 3701-21 of the Administrative Code:(A) "aw" means water activity, which is a measure of the free moisture in a food, is the quotient of the water vapor pressure of the substance divided by the vapor pressure of pure water at the same temperature.(B) …

19.03 PDF: (A) During the month of February of each year, and not later than March first, except as hereinafter provided, every operator of a food service operation proposing to operate during any part of the licensing year will apply for a license for that year from the board of…

19.03 PDF: (A) The licensor will establish fees for:(1) Food service operations in which the interior premises is under twenty-five thousand square feet for each risk level specified in rule 3701-21-02.3 of the Administrative Code;(2) Food service operations in which the interior…

19.03 PDF: (A) A cost analysis will be conducted each fiscal year. The licensor will use data from the previous fiscal year to calculate the actual cost of administering and enforcing Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code and the rules adopted thereunder for food service operations a…

19.03 PDF: The licensor will determine the risk level based on the highest risk level activity of the food service operation in accordance with the following criteria:(A) Risk level I poses potential risk to the public in terms of sanitation, food labeling, sources of food, stora…

19.03 PDF: (A) Except as specified in paragraph (B) of this rule, a licensor will inspect food service operations at least every fifteen months as follows:(1) Risk level I: at least one standard inspection each licensing period.(2) Risk level II: at least one standard inspection …

19.03 PDF: (A) The licensor will accept for investigation complaints regarding food service operations. Complaints will be investigated in accordance with a written policy developed by the licensor. The policy is to include at a minimum:(1) A complaint form or electronic database…

19.03 PDF: A license holder may request a meeting with Ohio department of health on a licensor's proposed action regarding the food service operation, if the license holder believes that the action is in conflict with this chapter or any provision of Chapter 3717. of the Revised …

19.03 PDF: Upon request, the director of health is available to provide enforcement support to local boards of health to assist in the prosecution of any person for any violation of this chapter or the provisions of Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code applicable to food service ope…

19.03 PDF: No person, association, organization, corporation, or government operation will construct, install, provide, equip, or extensively alter a food service operation until facility layout and equipment specifications have been submitted to and approved in writing by the li…