All meetings will take place in-person at the Vern Riffe Center, 77 South High Street, 19th Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215

September 21, 2023 - 8:30 AM OPP Advisory Council. Riffe 19th Floor, Room 1938

September 21, 2023 - 9:00 AM Athletic Trainers Section Riffe 19th Floor, Room 1924

September 21, 2023 - 9:30 AM Physical Therapy Section 19th Floor, Room 1960

September 21, 2023 - 9:30 AM Occupational Therapy Section Riffe 19th Floor, Room 1918

September 21, 2023 - 10:30 AM Joint OTPTAT Board Riffe 19th Floor, Room 1960

To request ADA accommodation please contact Janine Burnside with the Ohio Office of Budget and Management via email (Janine.Burnside@obm.ohio.gov) or phone (614-728-8233)

Introducing the new OTPTAT Board Safe Haven Program! Working with OhioPHP, the program assists hundreds of healthcare workers across the state with a wide range of concerns including stress, burnout, mental health, or substance use disorders and much more!

Read more about Safe Haven.

We had thousands attend these in-person trainings! Thank you for taking the time to learn about Safe Haven as a resource. Now we have an on-demand option! The Safe Haven program trainings count for 1 hour of continuing education credit! FREE!

Click here to access training. Use passcode: FL5j?+Ea

Questions? Visit https://www.ohiophp.org/otptatsafehaven. 

The PTA Continuing Education Audit for the 2023 renewal has been run. The audit randomly chooses a certain percentage of renewals to submit continuing education certificates.

Please follow the directions at this link to submit your certificates by signing into http://elicense.ohio.gov. 

You are required to have twelve (12) hours of continuing education, including the Ohio Jurisprudence Assessment Module (JAM), which counts for two of those hours. You do not need to submit a certificate for the JAM.

Questions? Email ceaudit@otptat.ohio.gov.

Read the latest edition of the OTPTAT Board newsletter here.

The OT Section of the Ohio Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Athletic Trainers Board has released a new ethics updates webinar that is worth one hour of free continuing education credit for the category of ethics/jurisprudence. You can take this course at the link below. You may also reach this link from the OT Continuing education webpage. https://otptat.ohio.gov/Occupational-Therapy/Continuing-Education

**NEW** 2023 OT Section Updates - can be used for Ethics/Jurisprudence credit – NEW CE OPPORTUNITY

OTPTAT Board license holders should be aware that a scam continues to target licensees. Scammers are calling medical professionals spoofing the OTPTAT Board's main line and claiming to be investigators for the OTPTAT Board or other law enforcement agencies. The scam claims that the target's license to practice has been revoked due to allegations of drug trafficking. The scam will then request money to be wired to a foreign bank account.

Please note that an investigative agent from the Board will never ask for a payment over the phone. Any disciplinary action will include an official notice of hearing by either certified mail or personal service. The Board will never contact you over the telephone to tell you that your license has been revoked.

If you are contacted by a scammer, you may verify that it is a scam by hanging up and calling the Board's main line and asking for the enforcement unit to file a complaint. Also, please report the incident to your local law enforcement and the Ohio Attorney General's Office by filing a complaint online at http://ohioprotects.org or by calling 800-282-0515.

A new feature has been enabled in the eLicense Ohio system to allow license holders to log into the system and pull up a copy of your wall license. To do so, please log into the eLicense Ohio website (http://elicense.ohio.gov) and click the “options” tab on your license. One of the menu options will be “download wall certificate.” This will bring up a copy of your wall certificate and allow you to print it or save it to your phone or other electronic device. Step-by-step instructions are available for your assistance.

As a result of this new feature, the Ohio Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Athletic Trainers Board recently made a change to Ohio Administrative Code for the occupational therapy, physical therapy, and athletic trainer sections. This change allows a license holder to display their wall certificate on an electronic device as a way of meeting the requirement for license display. The Board recognizes that we live in an increasingly mobile world and use of this feature enhances the ability to display your license at the request of anyone who may wish to see proof of licensure. 

Replacement wall certificates will still be available by request for those who wish to continue to use a hard copy for a fee of $10. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at Board@otptat.ohio.gov.