Ohio Administrative Code|Rule 4723-26-14 | Procedures for obtaining approval or reapproval of community health worker training programs.

                                                
[Comment: Information regarding the availability
		and effective date of the materials incorporated by reference in this rule can
		be found in paragraph (G) of rule 4723-1-03 of the Administrative Code.]
The board shall approve and reapprove community
		health worker training programs as follows:
(A) A community health worker training
		  program that seeks to be approved by the board shall submit to the board all of
		  the following:
(1) A completed
			 "Community Health Worker Training Program Approval
			 Application";
(2) Payment of a program
			 approval fee of three hundred dollars; and
(3) Any other information
			 requested by the board.
(B) A community health worker training
		  program seeking reapproval by the board shall submit the following to the board
		  within ninety days prior to the expiration of its current
		  approval:
(1) A completed
			 "Community Health Worker Training Program Re-Approval
			 Application";
(2) Payment of a program
			 reapproval fee of three hundred dollars; and
(3) Any other information
			 requested by the board.
(C) If the board determines that
		  additional information is necessary to make a determination regarding an
		  application for program approval or reapproval, the board shall provide written
		  notice to the applicant requesting the information. An application will expire,
		  and a new application must be submitted, if the requested information is not
		  received by the board within one year of the date of the board's
		  request.
(D) The board may conduct a site visit of a community health
		  worker training program or applicant either prior to approving or reapproving a
		  program application, or at any time during the two year period for which a
		  program is approved.
(E) At a regularly scheduled board meeting the board shall review
		  the completed application for approval or reapproval and all other relevant
		  documentation to determine whether a program complies with standards set forth
		  in this chapter. If the board finds that the program meets all the requirements
		  of this chapter it shall issue its approval or reapproval, in writing, to the
		  applicant program.
(F) Program approval shall extend for two years provided the
		  program continues to meet the program standards set forth in this
		  chapter.
(G) If the board determines that an application for program
		  approval or reapproval does not demonstrate that the applicant program meets or
		  maintains the minimum standards set forth in this chapter, the board shall send
		  to the administrator of the program a written report that identifies the
		  specific deficiencies. The deficiency report must notify the applicant or
		  program of a board meeting date, not less than ninety days in the future, at
		  which the board will make a decision regarding the application.
(H) Within thirty days after receipt of the deficiency report,
		  the administrator of the program may submit to the board either:
(1) A written plan of
			 correction that sets forth the steps taken by the program to meet or maintain
			 each minimum standard identified in the report as not being met or maintained;
			 or
(2) A written response to
			 the report setting forth evidence that the program is meeting and maintaining
			 each minimum standard identified in the report as not being met or
			 maintained.
In order for the board to consider the
			 program's response to the deficiency report, the program must submit the
			 response not less than thirty days prior to the board meeting at which the
			 board will consider the program's approval status.
(I) Based on the deficiency report and the program's
		  response to the report, if any, the board may grant approval, grant provisional
		  approval, continue approval, or propose to deny or withdraw approval of the
		  program. The board shall deny or withdraw approval of a program according to
		  the procedures set forth in Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. In the
		  alternative, the board an applicant or program may enter into a consent
		  agreement specifying terms and conditions the applicant or program must satisfy
		  in order to achieve or maintain an approval status.
(J) If at any time a program with full approval fails to meet and
		  maintain the minimum standards set forth in this chapter, the board shall place
		  the program on provisional approval. When a program is placed on provisional
		  approval, the board shall specify the minimum standard or standards the program
		  is not meeting or maintaining and shall establish the time period during which
		  the program will be on provisional approval. When the time period for
		  provisional approval has expired, the board shall reconsider the program's
		  approval status.
(K) If a program on provisional approval continues to fail to
		  meet or maintain minimum standards at the end of the time period established
		  for provisional approval, the board may propose to continue provisional
		  approval for a period of time specified by the board or may propose to withdraw
		  approval, according to the procedures set forth in Chapter 119. of the Revised
		  Code. In the alternative, the board and applicant or program may enter into a
		  consent agreement specifying terms and conditions the applicant or program must
		  satisfy in order to achieve or maintain an approval status.
(L) When a complete application for reapproval is submitted to
		  the board in accordance with paragraph (B) of this rule, and the board fails to
		  make a determination before the current program approval expires, the board
		  shall issue a notice to the administrator of the program extending approval of
		  the program until board action is taken on the reapproval
		  application.