Ohio § 3701.031

§ 3701.031.

(A) The director of health shall accept and administer grants received from the federal

government or other sources, public or private, that are made available for use in

monitoring, studying, and preventing pregnancy losses.  To the extent that funding from grants is available, the director shall do the following: (1) Establish a population-based pregnancy loss registry to monitor the incidence of

various types of pregnancy losses that occur in this state, make appropriate epidemiological

studies to determine any causal relations of the pregnancy losses with occupational,

nutritional, environmental, genetic, or infectious conditions, and determine what

can be done to prevent such losses; (2) Advise, consult, cooperate with, and assist, by contract or otherwise, agencies of

the state and federal government, agencies of governments of other states, agencies

of political subdivisions of this state, universities, private organizations, corporations,

and associations for the purpose of division (A)(1) of this section. (B) The director may adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to specify

the reporting requirements for physicians, certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse

specialists, or certified nurse practitioners as necessary to accomplish the purposes

of this section. (C) As used in this section, “ pregnancy loss ” means a termination of pregnancy within the first twenty weeks of pregnancy either

spontaneously or by means other than the purposeful termination of a pregnancy as

described in section 2919.11 of the Revised Code .