Effective: September 17, 2002
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 - 124th General Assembly
(A) If the director of health determines that a health care facility is operating without a license in violation of division (E)(1) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, the director shall do one or more of the following:
(1) Provide an opportunity for the health care facility to apply for a license within a specified time, not exceeding thirty days after the date of the facility's receipt of the order;
(2) Issue an order that the health care facility cease its operations;
(3) Issue an order that prohibits the health care facility from performing certain types of services;
(4) Impose a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars upon the health care facility for operating without a license;
(5) Impose an additional civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars for each day that the health care facility operates without a license.
(B)(1) If a health care facility subject to an order issued under division (A)(1) of this section continues to operate, the director of health may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which the health care facility is located for an injunction enjoining the facility from operating. The court shall grant an injunction upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is operating without a license.
(2) If a health care facility subject to an order issued under division (A)(2) of this section continues to provide the types of services prohibited by the order, the director of health may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which the health care facility is located for an injunction enjoining the facility from performing those types of services. The court shall grant an injunction upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is providing the types of services prohibited by the director's order.
(C) If, after making its reports as provided in division (E)(2) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, the department of health finds that a physician has continued to engage at the same health care facility in a pattern of repeating the same violation and that the health care facility has failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that the physician does not continue the same violation at the health care facility, the department may, after providing the health care facility an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, impose a civil penalty on the health care facility. The penalty shall be not less than one thousand dollars and not more than fifty thousand dollars.
(D) If the director of health determines that a health care facility has violated any provision of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, other than a violation of division (E)(1) or (2) of that section, any provision of Chapter 3701-83 of the Administrative Code, or any other rule adopted by the director of health under section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, the director may do any or all of the following:
(1) Provide an opportunity for the health care facility to correct the violation within a specified period of time;
(2) Revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew the health care facility's license;
(3) Prior to or during the pendency of an administrative hearing under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, issue an order that prohibits the health care facility from performing certain types of services;
(4) Provide an opportunity for the health care facility to correct the violation;
(5) Impose a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars upon the health care facility for the violation;
(6) Impose an additional civil penalty of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars for each day that the health care facility fails to correct the violation.
(E) If a health care facility subject to an order issued under division (C)(2) of this section continues to provide the types of services prohibited by the order, the director of health may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which the facility is located for an injunction enjoining the facility from performing those types of services. The court shall grant an injunction upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is providing the types of services prohibited by the director's order.
(F) The director shall deposit all moneys collected as civil penalties under this section into the quality monitoring and inspection fund created under section 3702.31 of the Revised Code for use in accordance with that section.