Ohio Administrative Code|Rule 173-45-01 | Introduction and definitions.

                                                
(A) Introduction: This chapter governs
		  the Ohio long-term care consumer guide that ODA electronically publishes to
		  provide the public with detailed information on Ohio's long-term care
		  facilities, including nursing homes, residential care facilities, skilled
		  nursing facility units of hospitals, county homes certified to receive medicare
		  and medicaid reimbursement, and residential facilities. The information
		  includes a facility's size, location, services offered, customer
		  satisfaction data, regulatory compliance performance data, and, in the case of
		  nursing facilities, quality measures. The guide's information allows the
		  public to compare two or more facilities. The guide may also include detailed
		  information about other types of long-term care providers.
(B) Definitions for this
		  chapter:
"CMS" means "centers for medicare
		  and medicaid services."
"Facility" means a nursing facility.
		  residential care facility, or residential facility.
"Guide" means the "Ohio long-term
		  care consumer guide," which was created by ODA in accordance with section
		  173.46 of the Revised Code.
"Medicaid" has the same meaning as in
		  section 5162.01 of the Revised Code.
"Medicare" has the same meaning as in
		  section 5162.01 of the Revised Code.
"Nursing facility" means either of the
		  following:
(1) A facility, or a
			 distinct part of a facility, that is certified a nursing facility or a skilled
			 nursing facility for purposes of the medicare or medicaid program.
(2) A nursing home
			 licensed under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code that is not certified as a
			 nursing facility or skilled nursing facility.
"ODA" means "the Ohio department
		  of aging."
"ODH" means "the Ohio department
		  of health."
"Quality measure" means an aspect of
		  the physical or mental conditions of the residents of a nursing facility that
		  is derived from the resident assessment instruments submitted by nursing
		  facilities to CMS for the purposes of the medicare and medicaid
		  programs.
"Residential care facility" has the
		  same meaning as in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code.
"Residential facility" has the same
		  meaning as in section 173.45 of the Revised Code.