(A) Each hospital licensed under this chapter shall comply with the requirements of this chapter and the rules adopted under it.

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(B) In accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code, if the director of health finds that a license holder has violated any requirement of this chapter or the rules adopted under it, the director may do any of the following:

(1) Impose a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars;

(2) Require the license holder to submit a plan to correct or mitigate the violation;

(3) Suspend a health care service or revoke a license issued under this chapter if the director determines that the license holder is not in substantial compliance with this chapter or the rules adopted under it.

(C)(1) If the director takes action under division (B)(3) of this section, the director shall give written notice of proposed action to the hospital. The notice shall specify all of the following:

(a) The nature of the conditions giving rise to the director’s judgment;

(b) The measures that the director determines the hospital must take to respond to the conditions;

(c) The date, which shall be not later than thirty days after the notice is delivered, on which the director intends to suspend the health care service or revoke the license if the conditions are not corrected and the director determines that the license holder has not come into substantial compliance with this chapter or the rules adopted under it.

(2) If the licensed hospital notifies the director, within the period of time specified in division (C)(1)(c) of this section, that the conditions giving rise to the director’s determination have been corrected and that the hospital is in substantial compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it, the director shall conduct an inspection. The director may suspend the health care service or revoke the license if the director determines on the basis of the inspection that the conditions have not been corrected and the license holder has not come into substantial compliance with this chapter or the rules adopted under it.

(3) If the licensed hospital fails to notify the director, within the period of time specified in division (C)(1)(c) of this section, that the conditions giving rise to the director’s determination have been corrected and that the hospital is in substantial compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it, the director may suspend the health care service or revoke the license.

(D) If the director suspends a health care service or revokes a license under division (C) of this section, the director shall serve a written order of suspension or revocation in accordance with sections 119.05 and 119.07 of the Revised Code. If the license holder subject to the suspension or revocation requests an adjudication, the date set for the adjudication shall be within seven days after the license holder makes the request, unless another date is agreed to by both the individual and the director. The suspension or revocation shall remain in effect, unless reversed by the director, until a final adjudication order issued by the director pursuant to this section and Chapter 119 of the Revised Code becomes effective.

The director shall issue a final adjudication order not later than fourteen days after completion of the adjudication. If the director does not issue a final order within the fourteen-day period, the suspension or revocation is void, but any final adjudication order issued subsequent to the fourteen-day period shall not be affected.

(E) If the director issues a final adjudication order suspending a health care service or suspending or revoking a license issued under this chapter and the license holder continues to operate a hospital, the director may ask the attorney general to apply to the court of common pleas of the county in which the hospital is located for an order enjoining the license holder from operating the hospital.