Ohio § 3111.72

§ 3111.72.

The contract between the department of job and family services and a local hospital

shall require all of the following: (A) That the hospital provide a staff person to meet with each unmarried mother who gave

birth in or en route to the hospital within twenty-four hours of the birth or before

the mother is released from the hospital; (B) That the staff person attempt to meet with the father of the unmarried mother's child

if possible; (C) That the staff person explain to the unmarried mother and the father, if he is present,

the benefit to the child of establishing a parent and child relationship between the

father and the child and the various proper procedures for establishing a parent and

child relationship; (D) That the staff person present to the unmarried mother and, if possible, the father,

the pamphlet or statement regarding the rights and responsibilities of a natural parent

that is prepared and provided by the department of job and family services pursuant

to section 3111.32 of the Revised Code ; (E) That the staff person provide the mother and, if possible, the father, all forms

and statements necessary to voluntarily establish a parent and child relationship,

including, but not limited to, the acknowledgment of paternity affidavit prepared

by the department of job and family services pursuant to section 3111.31 of the Revised Code ; (F) That the staff person, at the request of both the mother and father, help the mother

and father complete any form or statement necessary to establish a parent and child

relationship; (G) That the hospital provide a notary public to notarize, or witnesses to witness, an

acknowledgment of paternity affidavit signed by the mother and father; (H) That the staff person present to an unmarried mother who is not participating in

the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code or

receiving medicaid an application for Title IV-D services; (I) That the staff person forward any completed acknowledgment of paternity, no later

than ten days after it is completed, to the office of child support in the department

of job and family services; (J) That the department of job and family services pay the hospital twenty dollars for

every correctly signed and notarized or witnessed acknowledgment of paternity affidavit

from the hospital.