Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
General and city health districts shall collect and
report public health quality indicator information as categorized and defined
in paragraph (B) of this rule. The information shall be submitted to the
director on an annual basis in an approved format. The director shall not
require general and city health districts to report information for public
health quality indicators if such indicators have previously been reported to
the director.
(B)
For purposes of this rule information regarding the
following public health quality indicators and associated measurements shall be
collected pursuant to paragraph (A) of this rule:
(1)
Access to birth
and death records: measured by the access and usage of the secure Ohio public
health information warehouse.
(2)
Communicable
disease control:
(a)
Measured by meeting the median number of days between
date of diagnosis and report to the health department in the Ohio disease
reporting system for the following reportable infectious diseases:
(i)
Campylobacteriosis;
(ii)
Cryptosporidiosis;
(iii)
E. coli
O157:H7 and shiga toxin-producing (STEC) E. coli;
(iv)
Giardiasis;
(v)
Influenza-associated hospitalization;
(vi)
Legionnaires'
disease;
(vii)
Pertussis;
(viii)
Salmonellosis; and
(ix)
Shigellosis.
(b)
Measured by
increasing the per cent completeness for the following reportable infectious
diseases in the Ohio disease reporting system by age, race, ethnicity, and
gender:
(i)
Campylobacteriosis;
(ii)
Cryptosporidiosis;
(iii)
E. coli
O157:H7 and shiga toxin-producing (STEC) E. coli (iv)
Giardiasis;
(v)
Influenza-associated hospitalization;
(vi)
Legionnaires'
disease;
(vii)
Pertussis;
(viii)
Salmonellosis; and
(ix)
Shigellosis.
(3)
Community
engagement: measured by reporting engagement with the community (clinical and
non-clinical) about policies and/or strategies that will promote the public's
health.
(4)
Emergency preparedness: measured by the ability to
receive and respond to an emergency preparedness twenty-four hours per day,
seven days per week on-call drill initiated by the department of health within
one hour.
(5)
Environmental health services: measured by meeting the
annual required inspection frequency and providing verification of registered
sanitarian/sanitarian in training conducting inspections for food safety,
public swimming pools and campground programs.
(6)
Epidemiology:
measured by demonstrating one full-time equivalent epidemiologist per three
hundred thousand population.
(7)
Health promotion
and prevention- chronic disease:
(a)
Measured by the reporting of at least one
evidence-based tobacco prevention or control intervention; and
(b)
Measured by the
reporting of at least one evidence-based healthy eating and/or active living
intervention for children birth to eighteen years.
(8)
Health promotion
and prevention- injury prevention: measured by the reporting of at least one
evidence-based injury prevention intervention.
(9)
Health promotion
and prevention- infant mortality/preterm birth prevention:
measured by the infant mortality rate
by race.
(10)
Immunizations: measured by increasing the percentage
of children entering kindergarten who are fully vaccinated.
(11)
Information
management and analysis: measured by expanding the use of electronic data
management system(s) in the administration of public health programs (e.g.,
clinical, environmental and/or administration).
(12)
Linking people
to health services: measured by the participation in the medicaid
administrative claiming program to promote access to
healthcare.
(C)
The director shall provide access to public health
quality indicator information on a designated website for each general and city
health district. The director shall issue on the department website an annual
report providing a summary of the public health quality indicator information
to payers, providers, general and city health districts and public health
professionals.
