2018 Ohio Revised Code
Title [37] XXXVII HEALTH - SAFETY - MORALS
Chapter 3727 - HOSPITALS
Section 3727.13 - Satisfaction of requirements.

(A)

(1) The department of health shall recognize as a comprehensive stroke center a hospital that satisfies the requirements of division (B)(1) of section 3727.12 of the Revised Code and submits a complete application.

(2)

(a) The department shall recognize as a primary stroke center a hospital that satisfies the requirements of division (B)(2) of section 3727.12 of the Revised Code and submits a complete application.

(b) If a hospital satisfying the requirements of division (B)(2) of section 3727.12 of the Revised Code has attained supplementary levels of stroke care distinction as identified by an accrediting organization approved by the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services or an organization accepted by the department under section 3727.12 of the Revised Code, including by offering patients mechanical endovascular therapy, the department shall include that distinction in its recognition.

(3) The department shall recognize as an acute stroke ready hospital a hospital that satisfies the requirements of division (B)(3) of section 3727.12 of the Revised Code and submits a complete application.

(B) The department shall end its recognition of a hospital made under division (A) of this section if the accrediting organization described in division (B) of section 3727.12 of the Revised Code that certified the hospital revokes, rescinds, or otherwise terminates the hospital's certification with that organization or the certification expires.

(C) Not later than the first day of January and July each year, the department shall compile and send a list of hospitals recognized under division (A) of this section to the medical director and cooperating physician advisory board of each emergency medical service organization, as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. The department also shall maintain a comprehensive list of recognized hospitals on its internet web site and update the list not later than thirty days after a hospital is recognized under division (A) of this section or its recognition ends under division (B) of this section.

Added by 132nd General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 464, §1, eff. 3/20/2019.