Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-36 - Local Health Departments › Section 3701-36-05 - Collect, report, and share public health quality indicators

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								 General and city health districts shall collect and
			 report public health quality indicator information as categorized and defined
			 in paragraph (B) of this rule. The information shall be submitted to the
			 director on an annual basis in an approved format. The director shall not
			 require general and city health districts to report information for public
			 health quality indicators if such indicators have previously been reported to
			 the director.
(B)
								 For purposes of this rule information regarding the
			 following public health quality indicators and associated measurements shall be
			 collected pursuant to paragraph (A) of this rule:
(1)
									 Access to birth
			 and death records: measured by the access and usage of the secure Ohio public
			 health information warehouse.
(2)
									 Communicable
			 disease control:
(a)
										 Measured by meeting the median number of days between
			 date of diagnosis and report to the health department in the Ohio disease
			 reporting system for the following reportable infectious diseases:
(i)
											
			 Campylobacteriosis;
(ii)
											 Cryptosporidiosis;
(iii)
											 E. coli
			 O157:H7 and shiga toxin-producing (STEC) E. coli;
(iv)
											
			 Giardiasis;
(v)
											 Influenza-associated hospitalization;
(vi)
											 Legionnaires'
			 disease;
(vii)
											 Pertussis;
(viii)
											
			 Salmonellosis; and
(ix)
											 Shigellosis.
(b)
										 Measured by
			 increasing the per cent completeness for the following reportable infectious
			 diseases in the Ohio disease reporting system by age, race, ethnicity, and
			 gender:
(i)
											
			 Campylobacteriosis;
(ii)
											 Cryptosporidiosis;
(iii)
											 E. coli
			 O157:H7 and shiga toxin-producing (STEC) E. coli (iv)
			 Giardiasis;
(v)
											 Influenza-associated hospitalization;
(vi)
											 Legionnaires'
			 disease;
(vii)
											 Pertussis;
(viii)
											
			 Salmonellosis; and
(ix)
											 Shigellosis.
(3)
									 Community
			 engagement: measured by reporting engagement with the community (clinical and
			 non-clinical) about policies and/or strategies that will promote the public's
			 health.
(4)
									 Emergency preparedness: measured by the ability to
			 receive and respond to an emergency preparedness twenty-four hours per day,
			 seven days per week on-call drill initiated by the department of health within
			 one hour.
(5)
									 Environmental health services: measured by meeting the
			 annual required inspection frequency and providing verification of registered
			 sanitarian/sanitarian in training conducting inspections for food safety,
			 public swimming pools and campground programs.
(6)
									 Epidemiology:
			 measured by demonstrating one full-time equivalent epidemiologist per three
			 hundred thousand population.
(7)
									 Health promotion
			 and prevention- chronic disease:
(a)
										 Measured by the reporting of at least one
			 evidence-based tobacco prevention or control intervention; and
(b)
										 Measured by the
			 reporting of at least one evidence-based healthy eating and/or active living
			 intervention for children birth to eighteen years.
(8)
									 Health promotion
			 and prevention- injury prevention: measured by the reporting of at least one
			 evidence-based injury prevention intervention.
(9)
									 Health promotion
			 and prevention- infant mortality/preterm birth prevention:
measured by the infant mortality rate
				by race.
(10)
									 Immunizations: measured by increasing the percentage
			 of children entering kindergarten who are fully vaccinated.
(11)
									 Information
			 management and analysis: measured by expanding the use of electronic data
			 management system(s) in the administration of public health programs (e.g.,
			 clinical, environmental and/or administration).
(12)
									 Linking people
			 to health services: measured by the participation in the medicaid
			 administrative claiming program to promote access to
			 healthcare.