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Featured Health & Welfare Tools
The Health and Welfare Toolkit features a wide variety of resources offering practical information about providing hands-on care to people with developmental disabilities.
MUI Unit
The Major Unusual Incident Unit works to ensure the health and safety of people participating in services.
Seizures and Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Presented by Karen J. Brown, LSW of Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Cincinnati and Columbus. Objectives: Define epilepsy, seizure types and those most at risk, Explain treatment options and first aid for seizures, Describe the issues that complicate diagnosis and treatment in persons with DD, Describe disorders that mimic seizures.
Caregiver Burn Out
This recorded webinar discusses some of the common stresses that face caregivers of all types and some strategies to help.
SART
Sexual Assault Response Teams
MUI Rule Changes for 2019
This recorded webinar reviews changes to the MUI Rule that went into effect January 1, 2019.
Human Trafficking Prevention
People with developmental disabilities are vulnerable to human trafficking, and the department and the State of Ohio are working to combat the crime
Choking Awareness and Prevention
Choking is a common breathing emergency that occurs when the airway is partially, or completely blocked.
Well-Informed: Prone Restraint, Jan 2019
Prone restraint is a method of intervention where a person’s face and frontal part of his or her body is placed in a downward position touching any surface for any amount of time. The use of prone restraints in Ohio is prohibited.
DODD provides informational notices to stakeholders, issues Health and Welfare Alerts, manages a centralized complaint hotline, conducts statewide Mortality Review Committee meetings, steers statewide patterns and trends meetings, and provides ongoing training to the field.
Questions about UIs, MUIs, investigations, or other health and welfare requirements?
Contact 614-995-3810 or MUIDOC@dodd.ohio.gov.
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