All of the following apply to a person or public agency registered under section 3712.042 of the Revised Code to provide a pediatric transition care program:

Terms Used In Ohio Code 3712.063

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Pediatric transition care patient: means a patient, other than a hospice patient, who is less than twenty-seven years of age and to whom all of the following conditions apply:

    (1) The patient has been diagnosed with a disease or condition that is life-threatening and is expected to shorten the life expectancy that would have applied to the patient absent the patient's diagnosis, regardless of whether the patient is terminally ill. See Ohio Code 3712.01

  • Pediatric transition care program: means a program operated by a person or public agency that arranges for the provision of health care and related services in a private home setting, including all of the following services, only to pediatric transition care patients, who are not related by birth or adoption to the person that arranges for the provision of health care and related services, and, as indicated below, the parents of pediatric transition care patients, in order to meet the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and other special needs of children who have been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases and conditions:

    (1) Inpatient care and procedures;

    (2) Skilled nursing care;

    (3) Nursing care by or under the supervision of a registered nurse;

    (4) Physician's services;

    (5) Medical supplies, including drugs and biologicals, and the use of medical appliances;

    (6) For a pediatric transition care patients' parents, counseling, education, and visitation to promote reunification. See Ohio Code 3712.01

  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Physician: means a person authorized under Chapter 4731 of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. See Ohio Code 3712.01

(A) The program shall ensure that the medical care components of the program are under the direction of a physician.

(B) When a program arranges for a home health agency to furnish a component or components of the program to a pediatric transition care patient, the care shall be provided by a home health agency pursuant to a written contract that includes both of the following conditions:

(1) All care, treatment, and services furnished by the contractor are entered into the patient’s medical record.

(2) The program ensures conformance with the patient’s established plan of care and physician orders.

(C) Care commensurate with a pediatric transition care patient’s needs shall be available twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week.

(D) The program shall maintain in the home central clinical records on all pediatric transition care patients.

(E) The program shall maintain in the home birth certificates, certified guardianship letters of authority, or other documentation related to health care decision-making, as applicable, for any pediatric transition care patient who receives care for longer than thirty days, unless, on written request by the program, this requirement is waived by the director of health.

(F) The program shall not provide pediatric transition care services to more than fifteen pediatric transition care patients at any time, unless, on written request by the program, additional patients are authorized by the director of health.

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