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(A)
"Association" or "institution" includes any
incorporated or unincorporated organization, society, association, or
agency, public or private, that receives or cares for children for two
or more consecutive weeks; any individual, including the operator of a
foster home, who, for hire, gain, or reward, receives or cares for
children for two or more consecutive weeks, unless the individual is
related to them by blood or marriage; and any individual not in the
regular employ of a court, or of an institution or association certified
in accordance with section
5103.03 of the Revised Code, who in any manner becomes a party to
the placing of children in foster homes, unless the individual is
related to such children by blood or marriage, or is the appointed
guardian of such children; provided, that any organization, society,
association, school, agency, child guidance center, detention or
rehabilitation facility, or children's clinic licensed, regulated,
approved, operated under the direction of, or otherwise certified by the
department of education, a local board of education, the department of
youth services, the department of mental health, or the department of
mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or any individual who
provides care for only a single-family group, placed there by their
parents or other relative having custody, shall not be considered as
being within the purview of these sections.
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(B)
"Family foster home" means a foster home that is not a
specialized foster home.
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(C)
"Foster caregiver" means a person holding a valid foster home
certificate issued under section
5103.03 of the Revised Code.
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(D)
"Foster home" means a private residence in which children are
received apart from their parents, guardian, or legal custodian, by an
individual reimbursed for providing the children nonsecure care,
supervision, or training twenty-four hours a day. "Foster
home" does not include care provided for a child in the home of a
person other than the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian while
the parent, guardian, or legal custodian is temporarily away. Family
foster homes and specialized foster homes are types of foster homes.
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(E)
"Medically fragile foster home" means a foster home that
provides specialized medical services designed to meet the needs of
children with intensive health care needs who meet all of the following
criteria:
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(1) Under rules
adopted by the department of job and family services governing payment
under Chapter
5111. of the Revised Code for long-term care services, the children
require a skilled level of care.
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(2) The
children require the services of a doctor of medicine or osteopathic
medicine at least once a week due to the instability of their medical
conditions.
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(3) The
children require the services of a registered nurse on a daily basis.
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(4) The
children are at risk of institutionalization in a hospital, skilled
nursing facility, or intermediate care facility for the mentally
retarded.
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(F)
"Recommending agency" means a public children services agency,
private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency that
recommends that the department of job and family services take any of
the following actions under section
5103.03 of the Revised Code regarding a foster home:
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(4) Deny
renewal of a certificate;
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(5) Revoke a
certificate.
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(G)
"Specialized foster home" means a medically fragile foster
home or a treatment foster home.
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(H)
"Treatment foster home" means a foster home that incorporates
special rehabilitative services designed to treat the specific needs of
the children received in the foster home and that receives and cares for
children who are emotionally or behaviorally disturbed, chemically
dependent, mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, or who otherwise
have exceptional needs.
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HISTORY: GC
§ 1352-6; 108 v PtI, 140; 108 v PtII, 1167; Bureau of Code Revision,
10-1-53; 125 v 473 (Eff 10-21-53); 130 v 1166 (Eff 10-7-63); 133 v S 105
(Eff 11-25-69); 133 v H 970 (Eff 7-14-70); 134 v H 494 (Eff 7-12-72);
138 v H 900 (Eff 7-1-80); 139 v H 440 (Eff 11-23-81); 145 v H 152 (Eff
7-1-93); 146 v H 117 (Eff 9-29-95); 146 v H 419 (Eff 9-18-96); 147 v H
408 (Eff 10-1-97); 148 v H 470 (Eff 7-1-2000); 148 v H 448 (Eff
10-5-2000); 148 v H 332. Eff 1-1-2001; 150 v H 117, § 1, eff. 9-3-04.
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