RSA 151:2-b · Home Health Care Provider and Individual Home Care Service Provider

151:2-b Home Health Care Provider and Individual Home Care Service Provider. –
I. "Home health care provider" means any organization, business entity, or subdivision thereof, including a case management agency, whether public or private, whether operated for profit or not, which is engaged in arranging or providing, directly or through contract arrangement, one or more of the following: nursing services, home health aide services, or other therapeutic and related services which may include, but shall not be limited to, physical and occupational therapy, speech pathology, nutritional services, medical social services, personal care services, and homemaker services, which may be of a preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, health guidance or supportive nature to persons in their places of residence.
II. Home health care providers which provide only homemaker services and no other health care services as listed in paragraph I of this section shall be issued a license limiting their services to homemaker services.
III. Home health care providers that provide only personal care services and no other health care services as listed in paragraph I of this section shall be issued a license limiting their services to personal care services.
IV. "Home health care provider" does not include any organization or agency providing only services pursuant to the provisions of Title III, Part C, of the Older Americans Act; authorized by the department of health and human services pursuant to RSA 161-I; operating only a nutrition program under a federal social services block grant, or under the auspices of a private charity; or volunteer hospices that do not provide, directly or through contract arrangements, home health care services as defined in RSA 151:2-b, I.
V. "Individual home care service provider" means any individual not employed by a home health care provider licensed under RSA 151:2, I(b) who solicits and provides health support services, personal care services, or homemaker services for compensation to clients in their places of residence; provided that the client is not a family member.
Source. 1985, 302:2. 2000, 255:4, eff. June 12, 2000. 2012, 41:3, 4, eff. July 1, 2012. 2019, 287:2, eff. Sept. 17, 2019. 2022, 269:2, eff. Aug. 23, 2022.