This text of Oregon § 443.190 (Client intake requirements; communicating health and safety risks to staff) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Oregon primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(1)As used in this section and ORS 443.195: (a)“Client” means a person who receives home health care services.
(b)“Client intake” means the process of gathering information from new clients to facilitate the provision of home health care services.
(c)“Home health care services” means items and services furnished to an individual by a home health care services entity, or by others under arrangements with such entity, on a visiting basis, in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the individual’s home for the purpose of maintaining that individual at home.
(d)“Home health care services entity” means any of the following entities that provide for the delivery of home health care services in a home health care setting:
(A)A home health agency as defined in ORS 443.014. Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI
(1) As used in this section and ORS 443.195:
(a) “Client” means a person who receives home health care services.
(b) “Client intake” means the process of gathering information from new clients to facilitate the provision of home health care services.
(c) “Home health care services” means items and services furnished to an individual by a home health care services entity, or by others under arrangements with such entity, on a visiting basis, in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the individual’s home for the purpose of maintaining that individual at home.
(d) “Home health care services entity” means any of the following entities that provide for the delivery of home health care services in a home health care setting:
(A) A home health agency as defined in ORS 443.014.
(B) A home hospice program as defined in ORS 654.412.
(e) “Home health care setting” means a place of temporary or permanent residence of an individual where home health care services are furnished to the individual.
(f) “Home health care staff” means individuals who provide home health care services.
(g) “Hospital” has the meaning given that term in ORS 441.760.
(h) “Household individual” means an individual, other than a client receiving home health care services, who is present or reasonably anticipated to be present in the home health care setting within a specified time.
(2) As part of any client intake process, a home health care services entity shall:
(a) Collect information necessary to identify and assess potential health and safety-related risks, including workplace violence as defined in ORS 654.412, that home health care staff may encounter while providing home health care services in home health care settings;
(b) Provide such information, to the extent known by the home health care services entity, to each home health care staff who will be responsible for providing the home health care services; and
(c) With respect to patients who are discharged from a hospital and referred to the home health care services entity, provide to each home health care staff who will be responsible for providing the home health care services to a client, any client history of violence that was made known to the home health care services entity as part of the continuity of care process.
(3) Information collected by a home health care services entity under subsection (2) of this section may be gathered using a client intake questionnaire and must, at a minimum, inquire about the following:
(a) The presence of pets at the home health care setting and whether such pets, if any, can be secured away from the area in which care is given, if so requested by the home health care staff.
(b) Suspected pest infestations.
(c) The willingness of the client to agree to securely store any weapons that are present at the home health care setting prior to any visit by the home health care staff.