Rule 3701-70-02 | Board members and meetings.
(A) The board, by a majority vote of a quorum of its members, will select an individual to serve as its chairperson. The board may replace a chairperson in the same manner.
(B) A vacancy on a board will be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
(C) The board will meet at the call of the board's chairperson as often as the chairperson determines necessary for timely completion of fetal infant death reviews.
(D) Each fetal infant mortality review (FIMR) board will choose sampling criteria to select cases for fetal and infant death review. For fetal death, the fetus will be of twenty or more weeks gestation for it to be reportable in Ohio. Each fetal death experienced by a woman who was, at the time of death, a resident of the health district in which the board exercises authority may be reviewed. Each death of an infant who was, at the time of death, a resident of the health district in which the board exercises authority may be reviewed.
(E) The FIMR board may work in conjunction with a county or regional Child fatality review (CFR) team, or combine with other counties for a regional FIMR board.
(F) Each FIMR board will be convened at least once a year to review the selected deaths of the infants who, at the time of death, were residents of the county, and fetuses whose mother was, at the time of death, a resident of the county or, in the case of a regional board, were residents of one of the participating counties.
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