Ohio § 749.03

§ 749.03.

(A) As used in this section, “ health facility ” means both of the following: (1) A hospital, as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code ; (2) A facility other than a hospital, as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code , where medical care and preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or palliative

items or services are provided to outpatients by or under the direction of a physician

or dentist. (B) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation or a board of hospital commissioners

established under section 749.04 of the Revised Code may purchase, acquire, lease, appropriate, or construct a health facility in another

municipal corporation to serve as a branch of a hospital erected under sections 749.02 to 749.14 of the Revised Code .  The health facility may include office space for physicians.  The facility shall be operated pursuant to the law that regulates the operation

of the hospital. (C) When a proposal to establish a health facility in another municipal corporation is

made by a board of hospital commissioners, all of the following apply: (1) The board shall give written notice to the legislative authority of its municipal

corporation and to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation where the

facility is to be located.  The legislative authority of the municipal corporation where the facility is to

be located, by resolution adopted within forty days after receipt of the notice, may

object to the proposed facility.  The resolution shall include an explanation of the objection and may make any recommendations

the legislative authority considers necessary.  The legislative authority shall send a copy of the resolution to the board of hospital

commissioners and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation that proposes

to locate the facility in the other municipal corporation. (2) Except as provided in division (B)(3) of this section, the board of hospital commissioners

may establish and operate the facility, unless the legislative authority of the municipal

corporation proposing to locate the facility in the other municipal corporation, not

later than twenty days after receiving a resolution of objection from the other legislative

authority pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section, adopts a resolution denying

the board the right to establish the facility. (3) If the legislative authority of a municipal corporation provides a subsidy for uncompensated

care to a board of hospital commissioners, the board may establish and operate the

health facility only if that legislative authority approves the establishment of the

facility.