Ohio Valley Home Care Inc

Programs: Ohio valley home care, inc. (ovhc) provides services that assist seniors in remaining independent at home at a fraction of the cost to stay in a nursing home. The caring trained staff of nurses, personal care aides, homemaker aides, and daycare aides work together to provide multiple services such as: personal care services, homemaker services, independent living assistance, adult daycare, and chore services. The agency serves approximately 100 clients per month. Ovhc is a provider of passport services (medicaid waiver) in columbiana and jefferson counties in ohio. Passport provides in-home alternatives to nursing home care for low-income seniors through area agency on aging. Passport will design a personal care plan and arrange an appropriate mix of in home services to supplement care provided by family members and friends. Currently an average of 72 clients utilize passport on a monthly basis. Ovhc operates senior link, an adult day care center that provides a clean, safe and fun environment for seniors that are unable or unwilling to remain at home alone during the day. Senior link provides: nursing services (on a limited basis), hot lunches, snacks, daily activities, community outings, quarterly podiatry visits, case conferences with family/caregivers and transportation. Adult day care averages 21 clients monthly. Although the majority of the clients are passport, ovhc does offer private duty services under the passport standards. The agency will provide non-discriminatory services for clients regardless of ability to pay. Despite the agency's low-cost operations, on occasion the agency has operated at a loss. Consequently, these services are only feasible through public support in the form of grants and donations. Ovhc networks with other health care providers to offer wellness programs that are needed within our community and are broad enough to benefit many different classes of people in the community, such as health fairs. On may 31, 2011 the organization terminated and transferred all activities to ohio valley home health services, the parent organization.