Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-40 - Hearing Evaluations › Section 3701-40-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter of the
				Administrative Code:
(A)
								"Address", in the case of an individual, means the
			 individual's residence and, in the case of a government agency, means the
			 office at which the records pertaining to a particular child are
			 maintained.
(B)
								"Attending physician" means the newborn's or infant's
			 primary care physician who will provide care for the newborn or infant after
			 discharge. If there is no known primary care physician, the physician treating
			 the infant or newborn while the newborn or infant is in the hospital will be
			 deemed the attending physician.
(C)
								"Audiologist"
			 means an individual authorized under the section
			 4753.07 of the Revised Code to
			 practice audiology.
(D)
								"Birth clerk" means an integrated perinatal health
			 information system (IPHIS) user with the ability to enter data to create birth
			 records.
(E)
								"Board of health" means the board of health of a city
			 or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of
			 health under section 3709.05 of the Revised
			 Code.
(F)
								"Certified nurse-midwife" means a registered nurse who
			 holds a valid certificate of authority issued under Chapter 4723. of the
			 Revised Code that authorizes the practice of nursing as a certified nurse
			 midwife in accordance with section
			 4723.43 of the Revised Code and
			 rules adopted by the board of nursing.
(G)
								"Certified nurse
			 practitioner" means a registered nurse who holds a valid certificate of
			 authority issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code that authorizes the
			 practice of nursing as a certified nurse practitioner in accordance with
			 section 4723.43 of the Revised Code and
			 rules adopted by the board of nursing.
(H)
								"Custodian" means
			 a government agency, or an individual, other than a parent or guardian, with
			 legal or permanent custody of a child as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(I)
								"Department" means the Ohio department of
			 health.
(J)
								"Diagnostic hearing evaluation" means evaluation
			 through the use of a battery of pediatric audiology test procedures by an
			 audiologist that will result in type and degree of hearing
			 loss.
(K)
								"Director" means the director of health or
			 designee.
(L)
								"Discharge" means the release of a patient from a
			 hospital or freestanding birthing center to a non-institutional
			 setting.
(M)
								 "Early intervention services" means developmental
			 services selected in collaboration with the parents of a child, birth through
			 age two, who is eligible for services under part C and designed to meet the
			 developmental needs of the child and the needs of the child's family to assist
			 appropriately in the child's development as identified in the individualized
			 family service plan.
(N)
								"Freestanding birthing center" has the same meaning as
			 the term defined in section
			 3702.141 of the Revised
			 Code.
(O)
								"Filed" means received by the director.
(P)
								"Guardian" has
			 the same meaning as the term is defined in section
			 2111.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Q)
								"Healthcare facility" means any of the following:
(1)
									A hospital that
			 is registered under section
			 3701.07 of the Revised
			 Code;
(2)
									A freestanding birthing center as defined in section
			 3702.141 of the Revised Code;
			 or
(3)
									A building, office, clinic, or other location in which
			 a physician or an audiologist is licensed to practice in Ohio and provides
			 diagnostic hearing evaluations.