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Ohio Rev Code § 3721.032 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.032 | Fire Marshal to Enforce and Adopt Fire Safety Rules.

Effective: September 10, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|The state fire marshal shall enforce all statutes and rules pertaining to fire safety in homes and shall adopt rules pertaining to fire safety in homes as the marshal determines necessary. The rules adopted by the marshal shall be in addition to those fire safety rules that the board of building standards and the director of health are empowered to adopt. In the event of a dispute between the marshal and another officer having responsibilities under sections 3721.01 to 3721.09 of the Revised Code with respect to the interpretation or application of a specific fire safety statute or rule, the interpretation of the marshal shall prevail.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.041 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.041 | Vaccinations to Be Offered to Residents.

Effective: March 21, 2017|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 311 - 131st General Assembly|(A) As used in this section:(1) "Advisory committee" means the advisory committee on immunization practices of the United States centers for disease control and prevention or a successor committee or agency.(2) "Home" has the same meaning as in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code. ( 3) "Physician" means an individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.(B) (1) Each home shall, on an annual basis, offer to each resident, in accordance with guidelines issued by the advisory committee, vaccination against influenza, unless a physician has determined that vaccination of the resident is medically inappropriate. The vaccine shall be of a form approved by the advisory committee for that calendar year. A resident may refuse vaccination. (2) Each home shall obtain the influenza vaccine information sheet described in section 3701.138 of the Revised Code and post the sheet in a conspicuous location that is accessible to all residents, employees, and visitors. Not later than the first day of August each year, the home shall determine whether the information sheet it has posted is the most recent version available. If it is not, the home shall replace the information sheet with the updated version. Nothing in this division requires an older adult to be vaccinated against influenza. Failure to comply with the requirement to post the information sheet shall not be taken into account when any survey or inspection of the home is conducted and shall not be used as the basis for imposing any penalty against the home.(C) Each home shall offer to each resident, in accordance with guidelines issued by the advisory committee, vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia, unless the resident has already received such vaccination or a physician has determined that vaccination of the resident is medically inappropriate. Each vaccine shall be of a form approved by the advisory committee for that calendar year. A resident may refuse vaccination.(D) The director of health may adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as the director considers appropriate to implement this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.042 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.042 | Excluded Grounds for Denial of License.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|The director of health may not deny a nursing home license to a facility seeking a license under this chapter as a nursing home on the grounds that the facility does not satisfy a requirement established in rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code regarding the toilet rooms and dining and recreational areas of nursing homes if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The facility seeks a license under this chapter because it is a county home or district home being sold under section 5155.31 of the Revised Code to a person who may not operate the facility without a nursing home license under this chapter.(B) The requirement would not have applied to the facility had the facility been a nursing home first licensed under this chapter before October 20, 2001.(C) The facility was a nursing facility, as defined in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code, on the date immediately preceding the date the facility is sold to the person seeking the license.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.05 | Operating Home Requires License - Prohibited Activities.

Effective: June 30, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly|No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation shall:(A) Operate a home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code without obtaining a license from the director of health;(B) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued;(C) Operate a home after the license for such has been revoked by the director of health;(D) Interfere with the inspection of a licensed home by any state or local official when he is performing duties required of him by Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code. All licensed homes shall be open for inspection.(E) Violate any of the provisions of Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.051 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.051 | County or District - Prohibited Activities.

Effective: July 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 178 - 123rd General Assembly|No county home or district home licensed under section 3721.07 of the Revised Code shall do any of the following:(A) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued;(B) Continue operation after its license has been revoked by the director of health;(C) Fail to be open for an inspection, or interfere with an inspection, by a state or local official performing inspection duties under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code;(D) Violate any of the provisions of this chapter or any rules adopted thereunder.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.06 | Prohibition Against Placement of Person in Unlicensed Home.

Effective: October 20, 1965|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 710 - 106th General Assembly|No public official or employee shall place any person in, or recommend that any person be placed in, or directly or indirectly cause any person to be placed in any home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code which is being operated without a license from the director of health or from a political subdivision certified pursuant to section 3721.09 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.071 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.071 | Home Must Be Equipped With Both Automatic Fire Extinguishing and Fire Alarm Systems.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|The buildings in which a home is housed shall be equipped with both an automatic fire extinguishing system and fire alarm system. Such systems shall conform to standards set forth in the regulations of the board of building standards and the state fire marshal. The time for compliance with the requirements imposed by this section shall be January 1, 1975, except that the date for compliance with the automatic fire extinguishing requirements is extended to January 1, 1976, provided the buildings of the home are otherwise in compliance with fire safety laws and regulations and:(A) The home within thirty days after August 4, 1975, files a written plan with the state fire marshal's office that:(1) Outlines the interim safety procedures which shall be carried out to reduce the possibility of a fire;(2) Provides evidence that the home has entered into an agreement for a fire safety inspection to be conducted not less than monthly by a qualified independent safety engineer consultant or a township, municipal, or other legally constituted fire department, or by a township or municipal fire prevention officer;(3) Provides verification that the home has entered into a valid contract for the installation of an automatic fire extinguishing system or fire alarm system, or both, as required to comply with this section;(4) Includes a statement regarding the expected date for the completion of the fire extinguishing system or fire alarm system, or both.(B) Inspections by a qualified independent safety engineer consultant or a township, municipal, or other legally constituted fire department, or by a township or municipal fire prevention officer are initiated no later than sixty days after August 4, 1975, and are conducted no less than monthly thereafter, and reports of the consultant, fire department, or fire prevention officer identifying existing hazards and recommended corrective actions are submitted to the state fire marshal, the division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce, and the department of health.It is the express intent of the general assembly that the department of medicaid shall terminate the medicaid provider agreements of those homes that do not comply with the requirements of this section for the submission of a written fire safety plan and the deadline for entering into contracts for the installation of systems.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.072 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.072 | Biennial Participation in Quality Improvement Projects.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advance care planning" means providing an opportunity to discuss the goals that may be met through the care provided by a nursing home.(2) "Overhead paging" means sending audible announcements through an electronic sound amplification and distribution system throughout part or all of a nursing home to staff, residents, residents' families, or others.(B) Beginning July 1, 2013, each nursing home shall participate every two years in at least one of the quality improvement projects included on the list made available by the department of aging under the nursing home quality initiative established under section 173.60 of the Revised Code.(C) Beginning July 1, 2015, each nursing home shall participate in advance care planning with each resident or the resident's sponsor if the resident is unable to participate. For each resident, the advance care planning shall be provided on admission to the nursing home or, in the case of an individual residing in a nursing home on July 1, 2015, as soon as practicable. Thereafter, for each resident, the advance care planning shall be provided quarterly each year.(D) Beginning July 1, 2015, each nursing home shall prohibit the use of overhead paging within the nursing home, except that the nursing home may permit the use of overhead paging for matters of urgent public safety or urgent clinical operations. The nursing home shall develop a written policy regarding its use of overhead paging and make the policy available to staff, residents, and residents' families.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.09 | Local Regulations.

Effective: July 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 178 - 123rd General Assembly|Sections 3721.02, 3721.03, 3721.04, 3721.05, 3721.051, 3721.07, and 3721.08 of the Revised Code and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto are not applicable in political subdivisions which the director of health, by annual certification, determines have adopted and are enforcing their own standards which are equal to or greater in their requirements than those of sections 3721.02, 3721.03, 3721.04, 3721.05, 3721.051, 3721.07, and 3721.08 of the Revised Code and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto. Officials of political subdivisions shall cooperate fully with the director and provide the director with information which the director finds necessary in order to make a determination.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.11 | Director to Adopt Rules.

Effective: January 9, 1979|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 600 - 112th General Assembly|(A) The director of the department of health shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to govern procedures for the implementation of sections 3721.10 to 3721.17 of the Revised Code.(B) The director may adopt, amend, and repeal substantive rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code defining with reasonable specificity acts that violate division (A) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.122 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.122 | Screening and Accommodations for Sex Offenders.

Effective: September 15, 2014|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly|Before an individual is admitted as a resident to a home, the home's administrator shall search for the individual's name in the internet-based sex offender and child-victim offender database established under division (A)(11) of section 2950.13 of the Revised Code. If the search results identify the individual as a sex offender and the individual is admitted as a resident to the home, the administrator shall provide for the home to do all of the following: (A) Develop a plan of care to protect the other residents' rights to a safe environment and to be free from abuse;(B) Notify all of the home's other residents and their sponsors that a sex offender has been admitted as a resident to the home and include in the notice a description of the plan of care developed under division (A) of this section;(C) Direct the individual in updating the individual's address under section 2950.05 of the Revised Code and, if the individual is unable to do so without assistance, provide the assistance the individual needs to update the individual's address under that section.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.14 | Implementation of Residents' Rights.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|To assist in the implementation of the rights granted in division (A) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code, each home shall provide: (A) Appropriate staff training to implement each resident's rights under division (A) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, explaining:(1) The resident's rights and the staff's responsibility in the implementation of the rights;(2) The staff's obligation to provide all residents who have similar needs with comparable service.(B) Arrangements for a resident's needed ancillary services;(C) Protected areas outside the home for residents to enjoy outdoor activity, within the capacity of the facility, consistent with applicable laws and rules;(D) Adequate indoor space, which need not be dedicated to that purpose, for families of residents to meet privately with families of other residents;(E) Access to the following persons to enter the home during reasonable hours, except where such access would interfere with resident care or the privacy of residents:(1) Employees of the department of health, department of mental health and addiction services, department of developmental disabilities, department of aging, department of job and family services, and county departments of job and family services;(2) Prospective residents and their sponsors;(3) A resident's sponsors;(4) Residents' rights advocates;(5) A resident's attorney;(6) A minister, priest, rabbi, or other person ministering to a resident's religious needs.(F) In writing, a description of the home's grievance procedures.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.15 | Authorization to Handle Residents' Financial Affairs.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 444 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) Authorization from a resident or a sponsor with a power of attorney for a home to manage the resident's financial affairs shall be in writing and shall be attested to by a witness who is not connected in any manner whatsoever with the home or its administrator. The home shall maintain accounts pursuant to division (A)(27) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code. Upon the resident's transfer, discharge, or death, the account shall be closed and a final accounting made. All remaining funds shall be returned to the resident or resident's sponsor, except in the case of death, when all remaining funds shall be transferred or used in accordance with section 5162.22 of the Revised Code.  (B) A home that manages a resident's financial affairs shall deposit the resident's funds in excess of one thousand dollars, and may deposit the resident's funds that are one thousand dollars or less, in an interest-bearing account separate from any of the home's operating accounts. Interest earned on the resident's funds shall be credited to the resident's account. A resident's funds that are one thousand dollars or less and have not been deposited in an interest-bearing account may be deposited in a noninterest-bearing account or petty cash fund. (C) Each resident whose financial affairs are managed by a home shall be promptly notified by the home when the total of the amount of funds in the resident's accounts and the petty cash fund plus other nonexempt resources reaches two hundred dollars less than the maximum amount permitted a recipient of medicaid. The notice shall include an explanation of the potential effect on the resident's eligibility for medicaid if the amount in the resident's accounts and the petty cash fund, plus the value of other nonexempt resources, exceeds the maximum assets a medicaid recipient may retain. (D) Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, each home that manages the financial affairs of residents shall purchase a surety bond or otherwise provide assurance satisfactory to the director of health, or, in the case of a home that participates in the medicaid program, to the medicaid director, to assure the security of all residents' funds managed by the home.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.161 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.161 | Hearing Challenging Proposed Transfer or Discharge.

Effective: September 5, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly|(A) Not later than thirty days after the date a resident or the resident's sponsor receives notice of a proposed transfer or discharge, whichever is later, the resident or resident's sponsor may challenge the proposed transfer or discharge by submitting a written request for a hearing to the state department of health. On receiving the request, the department shall conduct a hearing in accordance with section 3721.162 of the Revised Code to determine whether the proposed transfer or discharge complies with division (A)(30) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code.(B) Except in the circumstances described in divisions (A)(1)(a) to (e) of section 3721.16 of the Revised Code, if a resident or resident's sponsor submits a written hearing request not later than ten days after the resident or the resident's sponsor received notice of the proposed transfer or discharge, whichever is later, the home shall not transfer or discharge the resident unless the department determines after the hearing that the transfer or discharge complies with division (A)(30) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code or the department's determination to the contrary is reversed on appeal.(C) If a resident or resident's sponsor does not request a hearing pursuant to division (A) of this section, the home may transfer or discharge the resident on the date specified in the notice required by division (A) of section 3721.16 of the Revised Code or thereafter, unless the home and the resident or, if the resident is not competent to make a decision, the home and the resident's sponsor, agree to an earlier date.(D) If the resident or resident's sponsor requests a hearing in writing pursuant to division (A) of this section and the home transfers or discharges the resident before the department issues a hearing decision, the home shall readmit the resident in the first available bed if the department determines after the hearing that the transfer or discharge does not comply with division (A)(30) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code or the department's determination to the contrary is reversed on appeal.
Ohio Rev Code § 3721.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Residential Care Facilities|Section 3721.18 | Attorney General Duties.

Effective: April 9, 1979|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 600 - 112th General Assembly|The attorney general may investigate alleged violations of Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code or rules, policies, or procedures adopted thereunder. When it appears, as the result of the investigation, that there is cause to prosecute for the commission of a crime, the attorney general shall refer the evidence to the prosecuting attorney having jurisdiction in the matter.