Ohio Admin. Code 3701-60-01 - Definitions
(A) "Applicant"
means a person who is under final consideration for employment with a home
health agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary position that involves
providing direct care to an individual or is referred to a home health agency
by an employment service for such a position.
(B)
"Applicant for
licensure" means the individual or agency applying for a skilled home health
services license or nonmedical home health services license.
(D)
"Community-based long-term care subcontractor" means a
subcontractor, as defined in section
173.38 of the Revised
Code.
(1) Any service
identified in paragraphs (H)
(J) (1) to (H)
(J) (6) of this rule that is provided in a patient's
place of residence used as the patient's home; or
(2) Any activity that requires the person
performing the activity to be routinely alone with a patient or to routinely
have access to a patient's personal property or financial documents regarding a
patient; or
(3) For each home
health agency individually, any other routine service or activity that the
chief administrator of the home health agency designates as direct
care.
(1)
Abuse, neglect, or misappropriation; or
(2) A disqualifying offense.
(1)
Skilled nursing care;
(2) Physical
therapy;
(3) Speech-language
pathology;
(4) Occupational
therapy;
(5) Medical social
services; or
(6) Home health aide
services.
(1) Hands-on bathing or
assistance with a tub bath or shower;
(2) Assistance with dressing, ambulation, and
toileting;
(3) Catheter care but
not insertion; or
(4) Meal
preparation and feeding.
(M)
"Immediate family member" means a parent, stepparent,
grandparent, legal guardian, grandchild, brother, sister, step sibling, spouse,
son, daughter, stepchild, aunt, uncle, mother-in-law, father-in-law,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law.
(Q)
"Nonagency
provider" means a person who provides direct care to an individual on a
self-employed basis and does not employ, directly or through contract, another
person to provide the services. "Nonagency provider" does not include any of
the following:
(1)
A caregiver who is an immediate family member of the
individual receiving direct care;
(2)
A person who
provides direct care to not more than two individuals simultaneously who are
not immediate family members of the care provider;
(3)
A
volunteer;
(4)
A person who is certified under section
5104.12 of the Revised Code to
provide publicly funded child care as an in-home aide;
(5)
A person who
provides privately funded child care;
(6)
A caregiver who
is certified by the department of developmental disabilities under Chapter
5123. of the Revised Code.
(R)
"Nonmedical home
health services" means any of the following:
(1)
Home health aide
services defined in paragraph (K) of this rule; and
(2)
Personal care
services as defined in paragraph (V) of this rule.
(U)
"Operating location" means the geographical location of the
business and operations functions of a home health agency including, but not
limited to, record keeping, central staffing, and general business operations.
The term operating location may include branches of the home health agency that
are under the direct supervision of the operating location.
(V)
"Personal care
services" means any of the following provided to an individual in the
individual's home or community:
(1)
Hands-on assistance with activities of daily living and
instrumental activities of daily living, when incidental to assistance with
activities of daily living;
(2)
Assistance
managing the individual's home and handling personal affairs;
(3)
Assistance with
self-administration of medications as defined in paragraph (Y) of this
rule;
(4)
Homemaker services when incidental to any of the
services identified in paragraphs (V)(1) to (V)(3) of this rule or when
essential to the health and welfare of the individual specifically, not the
individual's family;
(5)
Respite services for the individual's
caregiver;
(6)
Errands completed outside of the presence of the
individual if needed to maintain the individual's health and safety, including
picking up prescriptions and groceries.
(X)
"Residential facility" has the same meaning as in section
5123.19 of the Revised
Code.
(Y)
"Self-administration of medication" means medication
taken orally, by injection, nebulizer, insertion or is applied topically
without the need for assistance. In assisting an individual with
self-administration of medication, staff providing personal care services may
do the following:
(1)
Remind the individual when to take medication and watch
to ensure that the individual follows the directions on the
container;
(2)
Assist the individual by taking the medication and
handing it to the individual. If the individual is physically unable to open
the container, a staff member may open the container for the individual;
and
(3)
Assist a physically impaired but mentally alert
individual, in removing oral or topical medication from containers and in
consuming or applying the medication, upon request by or with the consent of
the individual or the individual's health care power of attorney (HCPOA) or
legal guardian. If an individual is physically unable to place a dose of
medicine to their mouth without spilling it, a staff member may place the dose
in a container and place the container to the mouth of the
individual.
(Z)
"Skilled home health services" means any service
identified in paragraphs (J)(1) to (J) (5) of this rule.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3740.10
Rule Amplifies: 3740.01
Prior Effective Dates: 07/24/1997 (Emer.), 10/24/1997, 11/12/2007, 01/01/2013, 11/30/2017
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