Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 3740 - Home Health Service Providers

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Direct care: means any of the following:

  (1) Any service identified in divisions (G)(1) to (6) of this section that is provided in a patient's place of residence used as the patient's home;

  (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;

  (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. See Ohio Code 3740.01

• Employee: means a person employed by a home health agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary position that involves providing direct care to an individual and a person who works in such a position due to being referred to a home health agency by an employment service. See Ohio Code 3740.01
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Home health agency: means a person or government entity, other than a nursing home, residential care facility, hospice care program, pediatric respite care program, pediatric transition care program, informal respite care provider, provider certified by the department of developmental disabilities under Chapter 5123 of the Revised Code, residential facility, shared living provider, or immediate family member, that has the primary function of providing any of the following services to a patient at a place of residence used as the patient's home:

  (1) Skilled nursing care;

  (2) Physical therapy;

  (3) Occupational therapy;

  (4) Speech-language pathology;

  (5) Medical social services;

  (6) Home health aide services. See Ohio Code 3740.01

• Home health aide services: means any of the following services provided by an employee of a home health agency:

  (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;

  (4) Meal preparation and feeding. See Ohio Code 3740.01

• Immediate family member: means a parent, stepparent, grandparent, legal guardian, grandchild, brother, sister, stepsibling, 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. See Ohio Code 3740.01
• Medical social services: means services provided by a social worker under the direction of a patient's attending physician. See Ohio Code 3740.01
• 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. See Ohio Code 3740.01
• Nonmedical home health services: means any of the following:

  (1) Any service identified in divisions (H)(1) to (4) of this section;

  (2) Personal care services;

  (3) Any other service the director of health designates as a nonmedical home health service in rules adopted under section 3740. See Ohio Code 3740.01

• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• 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;

  (4) Homemaker services when incidental to any of the services identified in divisions (Q)(1) to (3) of this section 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. See Ohio Code 3740.01

• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Skilled home health services: means any of the following:

  (1) Any service identified in divisions (G)(1) to (5) of this section;

  (2) Any other service the director of health designates as a skilled home health service in rules adopted under section 3740. See Ohio Code 3740.01

• Social worker: means a person licensed under Chapter 4757 of the Revised Code to practice as a social worker or independent social worker. See Ohio Code 3740.01
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59