New Hampshire Revised Statutes 151:2-b – Home Health Care Provider and Individual Home Care Service Provider
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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 N.H. Rev. Stat. § 151:2-b, I.
V. “Individual home care service provider” means any individual not employed by a home health care provider licensed under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 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.
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.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 151:2-b
- Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
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 N.H. Rev. Stat. § 151:2-b, I.
V. “Individual home care service provider” means any individual not employed by a home health care provider licensed under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 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.