Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-67 - Child Fatality Review Board › Section 3701-67-03 - Child fatality review board meetings

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The board of county commissioners shall
			 designate either the health commissioner that establishes the CFR board
			 or a
			 representative of the health commissioner to convene and be the chairperson of
			 the CFR board. If a regional CFR board is established, the health commissioner
			 appointed to establish the regional CFR board or his or her designee shall
			 convene the CFR board meetings and be the chairperson of the CFR board. In any
			 county that has a body acting as a CFR board on the effective date of this
			 rule, the board of county commissioners of that county, in lieu of having a
			 health commissioner establish a CFR board, shall appoint that body to function
			 as the CFR board for the county. The body shall have the same duties,
			 obligations, and protections as a CFR board appointed by the health
			 commissioner. The board of county commissioners or an individual designated by
			 the CFR board shall convene the body as required by section
			 307.624 of the Revised
			 Code.
(B) If a regional CFR board
			 includes a county with more than one health district, the CFR board meeting
			 shall be convened in that county. If more than one of the counties
			 participating in a regional CFR board has more than one health district, the
			 person convening the meeting shall select one of the counties containing more
			 than one health district as the county in which to convene the CFR board
			 meeting.
(C) Each CFR board shall
			 be convened at least once a year to review the deaths of all children who, at
			 the time of death, were residents of the county or, in the case of a regional
			 board, were residents of one of the participating counties.
(D) If a child dies in an Ohio county other
			 than the child's county of residence, the review shall be conducted in
			 accordance with this paragraph. For purposes of this paragraph, the CFR board
			 with jurisdiction over the county of residence shall be referred to as the lead
			 CFR board. The CFR board with jurisdiction over the county in which the child
			 died shall be referred to as the secondary CFR board.
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (D)(2) of
			 this rule, the lead CFR board shall conduct the child death review;
(2) The lead CFR board may delegate the
			 responsibility for conducting a child death review to the secondary CFR board
			 if the lead CFR board and the secondary CFR board both agree that the secondary
			 CFR board will conduct the review;
(3) The lead and secondary CFR boards shall
			 cooperate with each other to make relevant information available for the
			 review. The CFR board which conducts the review shall provide a complete copy
			 of the review to the CFR board not conducting the review;
(4) Regardless of which CFR board conducts
			 the review, only the lead CFR board shall include the review information in its
			 annual report to the department.