Ohio Home Health Services Agency Complete Startup Package

This package is designed for a Ohio nonmedical home health services license for an agency that will provide nonmedical personal care and home health aide services.

It is a home health agency licensed by ODH to provide nonmedical home health services, including home health aide and personal care services.

This startup package focuses on non-medical personal care, including assistance with activities of daily living and related instrumental activities of daily living.

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) licenses nonmedical home health services agencies under Revised Code Chapter 3740 and Administrative Code Chapter 3701-60.

Ohio currently requires a $250 nonrefundable application fee for a nonmedical home health services license. The renewal fee is also currently $250.

The license is generally valid for three years. Verify current payment and renewal instructions with ODH before submission.

Exact requirements depend on the applicant's ownership, personnel, services, location, and application details. Ohio requirements generally include items such as:

• ODH application forms and the $250 nonrefundable fee.
• Ohio business filings, ownership and officer information, and a notarized identity affidavit.
• Primary-owner fingerprints and the agency's criminal-records-check policy.
• Operating days and hours, primary business location, service area, services, and related policies.
• A $20,000 Ohio surety bond for a new provider that was not operating immediately before September 30, 2021.

Home Health Forms will proivde guidance and support to accomplish these requirements.

The application must identify the primary place of business. An out-of-state agency serving Ohio patients must establish an Ohio administrative office before applying and maintain Ohio patient records there.

A proposed home-based office must still satisfy ODH operational and recordkeeping requirements plus local zoning, business-license, lease or homeowners-association, privacy, accessibility, and safety rules.

An Ohio nonmedical home health services agency may provide services that help a client remain safely at home. These may include:

• Assistance with bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, bowel or bladder care, and eating or feeding.
• Meal preparation, light housekeeping, shopping, laundry, and other authorized instrumental activities of daily living.
• Medication reminders and assistance within the lawful nonmedical scope.
• Observing and reporting changes in the client's condition, behavior, or appearance.
• Documenting the services delivered in the client's record.

Direct-care employees must complete required database reviews and criminal records checks and be trained, competent, and supervised for assigned duties. Skilled services require an Ohio skilled home health services license.

The Ohio Home Health Services Complete Startup Package may include:

• A professionally designed company logo.
• A customized WordPress business website.
• One year of website hosting.
• One year of domain registration.
• 500 customized business cards.
• 500 customized tri-fold brochures.
• Ohio-specific policies and procedures cross-walked to Chapter 3740 and Chapter 3701-60.
• Human-resources and personnel documents.
• New-client admission documents.
• Operational and administrative forms.
• Preparation assistance for the Ohio nonmedical home health services license application.
• Access to the Home Health Forms members' area.
• Customization of documents to the purchaser's agency.
• Ongoing guidance and applicable document updates.

Home Health Forms provides startup guidance, customized documents, and application-preparation assistance. ODH makes all licensing decisions.

The applicant remains responsible for providing complete and truthful information, satisfying ownership, financial, insurance, personnel, office, background-check, nursing-supervision, and operational requirements, paying government fees, responding to state requests, preparing for the survey, and maintaining regulatory compliance. Home Health Foms provides guidance and documents that meet regulatory requirements to ensure your success.

Licensing approval and processing times cannot be guaranteed.

Customized policy manuals, forms, and related digital documents are generally emailed within five business days after Home Health Forms receives all company information needed to complete the customization.

logo creation, website development, domain registration, printing, shipping, and other package components may have separate production timelines.

Cancellation and refund eligibility depends on the work already completed, customized materials produced, digital products delivered, third-party expenses paid, printing ordered, and other services already performed.