Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-36 - Local Health Departments › Section 3701-36-03 - Minimum standards

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)Each health district must meet the minimum standards to receive
			 any state subsidy funds.
(B)These
			 minimum standards are:
(1) Submission of a
			 state health district subsidy fund application to the department due March
			 first of each year;
(2) Completion
			 and submission of the department's on-line report which incorporates the PHAB
			 standards on March first of every even numbered year;
(3)
									Submission of status of accreditation preparation and
			 application efforts by March first of each year;
(4) Submission of a completed annual
			 financial report to the department by March first of each year;
(5) Be represented by the health commissioner
			 or the health commissioner's designee at each conference provided by the Ohio
			 department of health pursuant to section
			 3701.29 of the Revised Code. The
			 health commissioner shall personally attend one of these conferences and the
			 medical director of a health district with a non-physician health commissioner
			 shall attend at least one session of one of the conferences. The director shall
			 review reasons for failure to comply with this paragraph and may grant an
			 excuse when good cause for the absence has been documented;
(6) Provide administrative leadership by:
(a) Employing a health
			 commissioner;
(b) Employing a
			 registered nurse as nursing director;
(c) Employing a registered sanitarian as
			 environmental health director;
(d)
			 Employing as medical director a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic
			 medicine who is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio and who is actively
			 involved in providing medical leadership to the local health department if the
			 health district has a non-physician health commissioner;
(7) Provision of services for health
			 education;
(8)
									 Annual
			 completion of two hours of continuing education by each member of a board of
			 health. Each continuing education credit shall pertain to one or more of the
			 following topics: ethics, public health principles, and a member's
			 responsibilities. Credits may be earned in these topics at pertinent
			 presentations that may occur during regularly scheduled board meetings
			 throughout the calendar year or at other programs available for continuing
			 education credit. The director of health may assist local boards of health of
			 general and city health districts in coordinating approved continuing education
			 programs sponsored by health care licensing boards, commissions, or
			 associations. Continuing education credits earned for the purpose of license
			 renewal or certification by licensed health professionals serving on boards of
			 health may be counted to fulfill the two-hour continuing education
			 requirement.
(a)
										 For purposes of paragraph (B)(8) of this rule,
			 "calendar year" means a period of twelve months beginning on January first and
			 ending on December thirty-first.
(b)
										 Continuing
			 education credits shall be reported as follows:
(i)
											 One hour of
			 continuing education credit is equal to sixty minutes. The smallest credit
			 increment a member of a board of health may accrue toward the completion of one
			 credit is one quarter credit or fifteen minutes. Each member of a board of
			 health shall submit all continuing education records to the health commissioner
			 along with all supporting documentation that the credit meets the requirements
			 of paragraph (B)(8) of this rule; and
(ii)
											 The health
			 commissioner of each district shall keep all board of health members'
			 continuing education credit records containing the date, topic, number of
			 credits earned, location and presenter's name or copies of certificates of
			 continuing education credits earned for the purpose of license renewal or
			 certification by a licensed health professional serving on the board of
			 health.
(c)
										 If a board of health member fails to comply with the
			 requirements of paragraph (B)(8) of this rule, the director of health may
			 provide:
(i)
											
			 One calendar year for the board of health member to correct the deficiencies;
			 or
(ii)
											 The health commissioner an opportunity to request an
			 in-person meeting or a telephone or video conference with a representative of
			 the director of health to show good cause for the deficiencies. If good cause
			 is not shown, the director may provide one calendar year for the board of
			 health member to correct the deficiencies or take other appropriate
			 action.
(9)
									 Expenditure of a minimum of three dollars per
			 capita in local funds for public health services per year.