Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director
Chapter 3701-12 - Certificate of Need
Section 3701-12-05 - Scope of review: reviewable activities

(1) The establishment, development, or construction of a new long-term care facility.

(2) The replacement of an existing long-term care facility.

(3) The renovation of or addition to a long-term care facility that involves a capital expenditure of four million dollars or more, not including expenditures for equipment, staffing, or operational costs.

(4) Either of the following:

(5) The expenditure of more than one hundred ten per cent of the maximum expenditure specified in a certificate of need concerning long-term care beds.

(6) Any failure to conduct a reviewable activity in substantial accordance with the approved application for which a certificate of need was granted, including a change in the site, if the failure occurs during the period from the approval of the application until five years after implementation of the reviewable activity for which the certificate was granted.

(1) Acquisition of computer hardware or software;

(2) Acquisition of a telephone system;

(3) Construction or acquisition of parking facilities;

(4) Correction of cited deficiencies that are in violation of federal, state or local fire, building or safety laws, ordinances, rules, or regulations and that constitute an imminent threat to public health or safety;

(5) Acquisition of an existing long-term care facility that does not involve a change in the number of beds;

(6) Mergers, consolidations or other corporate reorganizations of long-term care facilities that do not involve a change in the number of beds;

(7) Construction, repair or renovation of bathroom facilities;

(8) Construction of laundry facilities, waste disposal facilities, dietary department projects, heating and air conditioning projects, administrative offices and portions of medical office buildings used exclusively for physician services; and

(9) Removal of asbestos from a long-term care facility.