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Deadline Looms for Ohio Nonmedical Home Health/Personal Care Licensure

Analysis  |  By Carol Davis  
   September 23, 2022

Agencies must have applications completed by October 1 to be in compliance with Ohio law.

Ohio nonmedical home health/personal care agencies, which must now be licensed, must have their completed applications for licensure submitted to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) by October 1.

Agencies must have applications to ODH by that deadline, along with a non-refundable application fee of $250 to be in compliance with Ohio law.

Besides agencies providing nonmedical home health/personal care, those providing skilled home health care and non-agency providers of nonmedical home health/personal care services will be required to be licensed by October 1.

Anyone who operates a home care agency or who provides nonagency home care without completing the application by the deadline could face criminal prosecution.

Nonmedical home health agencies that provide these services in a person’s home must be licensed, according to ODH:

  • Hands-on assistance with activities such as bathing, dressing, toileting, and ambulation.
  • Assistance managing the individual’s home and handling personal affairs.
  • Assistance with self-administration of medications.
  • Homemaker services including meal preparation, assistance with feeding, mail, and laundry.
  • Catheter care, but not insertion.
  • Respite services for the individual’s caregiver.
  • Errands completed outside of the presence of the individual such as picking up prescriptions and groceries.

Carol Davis is the Nursing Editor at HealthLeaders, an HCPro brand.

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