Start A Home Care Business In Ohio
Start a Home Care Business in Ohio with exponential growth potential
The growth of the elderly population nationwide is leading to an increasing need for home care and home health care businesses in Ohio.
Would you like to start a non-medical home care (sometimes referred to as home health care business) in one of Ohio’s larger cities: Columbus, Cleveland, or Cincinnati? Or, would you like to start the home care business in a more rural area? There is an unlimited growth potential in owning your own home care business in Ohio (city or rural area) due to the increasing senior population that will continue to grow until 2050. If you have always wanted to own your very own business, owning a home care business could be the right fit for you in today’s exploding senior care industry!
Click HERE to contact our Ohio home care specialist team today – to learn more about our nationwide home care membership organization and how we can help you become a successful home care business owner. Now is a great time to start your very own home care business in Ohio!
What do I need to start a home care business in Ohio?
You will need to do the following (at a minimum) to get your home care business launched in Ohio:
- Choose your Ohio home care business name and create a legal entity in your state (LLC & S-Corp are the most common legal entities in home care).
- Create the face to your Ohio home care business – i.e. Website, brochures, business cards, PowerPoint presentations, banners, flyers, rack cards, etc. First impressions matter. AHI Group creates all of these materials for its members.
- Get your Ohio Home Care License – by meeting all the requirements (including submitting all the required Ohio compliant home care policies and procedures). AHI Group will assist you through the entire process end-to-end to successfully get your Ohio home care license. If you would like to expand to other states, over time, we will assist you with that process in as many states as you wish – at no extra cost.
- Ohio Office Setup/Solutions – get your software, phone systems, office supplies, office space setup. Contact us to discuss our innovative back-office solutions to help save you time and money.
- Ohio Business Insurance – get your home care agency business insurance in place. AHI Group has group insurance that save its members thousands of dollars on annual premiums.
- Expert Home Care Business Training and Support – knowing what is normal and what is not in every situation you encounter can be the difference between winning and losing business, hiring the right employees, and avoiding costly litigation. AHI Group assigns a coach to each of its member agencies who has owned their own successful home care business previously. Having someone who has “been there and done that” on your wings will help you soar over those who don’t have these types of mentors/coaches to assist them. If you wanted to go to the Olympics, you would want a coach who has been to the Olympics training you! AHI Group ONLY provides non-medical home care services. We do not do anything else. We are the experts at non-medical home care! AHI Group is not a “Jack of many trades and master of none” – like some other organizations that claim to help people get into multiple senior care businesses – i.e. hospice, skilled home health, and non-medical home care, etc.
- Unique Tools – knowing what others are doing in the industry and then being able to do things to stand out from the crowd is essential to growing a home care business in Ohio. AHI Group’s unique all in-house Veterans Program allows our members to stand out from their home care business competition in their local community. Ask us for more information about our exciting VA Program!
There are many other moving parts to a home care business, but the above are some of the main parts that you will want to consider when starting a home care business in Ohio.
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Get your FREE “10 Questions To Ask When Starting a Home Care Business in Ohio” Guide: Click Here – This quick read guide can help you understand the questions you should be asking of any organization that claims to help people start and grow a home care business in Ohio.
There are multiple ways to successfully grow your home care business in Ohio
Our Ohio Home Care Specialists will help you to start a home care business with a business model that allows you to take on non-medical personal care and companion care clients with various payer sources.
Whether you want to bill home care business services to Medicaid, Private Pay, AHI Group VA Program, AHI Group’s Long Term Care Insurance contracts, or Workers Compensation Contracts, our Ohio Home Care Consultants will help you to achieve your goals. AHI Group will not charge you an additional $3,500 – $10,500 to assist you with getting access to Long Term Care Insurance, Ohio State Medicaid Waiver Program, or Workers Compensation programs – like home care consultant companies do.
It seems that most Home Care Consultants are a “Jack of many trades – and master of none.” Does AHI Group specialize ONLY in non-medical home care?
AHI Group assigns each member agency a home care business coach – who has owned their own successful home care business. Just having a coach (who has owned their own multi-million dollar home care agency and grown it from the ground up) at your fingertips is worth its weight in gold when it comes to growing a home care business in Ohio. If you wanted to go to the Olympics you would hire a coach who has actually competed in the Olympic Games to help you get there. Likewise, at AHI Group we will not assign our members a coach who just worked for a home care business in Ohio for a few years (and never actually owned a home care business). We will assign a coach that has owned their own home care business and knows what it feels like to stand in your exact shoes every day.
AHI Group ONLY provides non-medical home care services. We do not do anything else. We are the experts at non-medical home care! AHI Group is not a “Jack of many trades and master of none” – like some other organizations that claim to help people get into multiple senior care businesses – i.e. hospice, skilled home health, and non-medical home care, etc.
How is AHI Group | StartupHomeCare different from a home care consultant in Ohio?
Having Home care business consultants share their tools with literally thousands of home care agencies – leaving each with nothing unique as they compete against each other. Having unique home care programs and tools is essential to stand out from the crowd and get in doors closed to others. AHI Group has 300+ members nationwide and has plans to grow to 500 over the next 4-5 years. AHI Group will then cap its membership enrollment and drive revenue via its all in-house Veterans Pension Benefit Program – with 500 agencies using it. You won’t have to worry about AHI Group giving out your playbook and tools to dozens of other home care agencies in your local area.
Nothing To Set You Apart From The Crowd
Home care consultant companies will usually help you get a home care license in your state, give you 3-4 days of training, and say they provide “support” after you open your doors for business. Consultant tools and techniques are passed around to literally thousands of home care agencies. One of the large consulting companies state they have helped ‘3,000+ home care agencies’. This begs the question of how their clients set themselves apart from others (who have been trained by that same consulting company) when they are all using the same tools/techniques? Statistically, some cities will have 50+ home care agencies who are all using the same playbook they got from this consulting company – and all competing against each other.
No Financial Motivation To Help You Grow
Another downside of consultants is that they have no incentive to help you grow after you open your doors for business as they get paid up front and have no ongoing financial incentive to help you grow. This naturally equates to a lack of quality coaching and support during that all important first year in business. Most consultants, if asked, don’t have any idea what happens to their clients after they get done with their 3-4 day training seminars.
AHI Group funds its ongoing coaching/support through its unique all in-house Veterans Pension Benefit Program. No other home care company has this capability in house and must send their Veteran Pension Benefit clients to an outside 3rd party for assistance. The 3rd party assists the Veterans get approved for the VA Pension Benefit, handles the billing, and coordinates their home care services. The 3rd party makes a profit from the services they provide. Instead of using this 3rd party, AHI Group developed an in-house Veterans Pension Benefit Program that not only helps 70% more Veterans than the 3rd party is able to help, but provides the revenue AHI Group needs to fund the ongoing coaching/support of its members. Result: AHI Group members get the backing, coaching, and support system of a franchise but without paying a royalty on their income. In addition, AHI Group is motivated to help its members get more clients in its VA Program. It’s a win-win!
Do I need any personal licenses or certification to start a home care business in Ohio?
Some states require a non-medical home care business to have an RN to perform in home assessments and create a plan of care for the client before the caregiver starts working. Contact us to discuss the requirements for a home care business in Ohio. Our AHI Group members each get their Certified Senior Care Manager (CSCM) Certification via going through our initial training program (or Boot Camp as we like to call it). The Certified Senior Care Manager certification allows our members to present themselves as senior care professionals in the industry when marketing their home care business.
Lifetime support from actual home care agency owners – for your home care business in Ohio
Included in AHI Group’s Lifetime Home Care Business Membership Fee is unlimited daily coaching/support from our team of former successful home care business owners. Each member is assigned a personal home care business coach who will assist them grow their home care business day to day. We realize that our 10 days of initial “Home Care Business Boot Camp Training” can only take us so far and you will need help with situations as they occur on the ground day to day. In addition, you will need to stay focused, motivated, and moving in the right direction. Your assigned coach will help you do all of these things.
Weekly Sales/Mastermind Calls
We also give you access to weekly home care business sales and home care business mastermind calls with other members of AHI Group where you can hear how they have effectively implemented AHI Group proprietary/niche programs and overcome their challenges. These calls are all moderated by AHI Group coaches to ensure that our new members aren’t leading other new members in the wrong direction.
What Will You Say?
What will you say to a discharge planner at a hospital that says, “We don’t recommend home care agencies to any patients.” How will you get home care referrals from that discharge planner now? What if the client has a G-Tube, or a catheter, what are you legally allowed to do with those devices? What if the client has shaky hands and can’t hold a dixie cup to give themselves medication pills – what can you legally do to help them? What if the client has bed sores – what can you do/not do to assist them? How will you set yourself apart from the other home care agencies in your area that have been in business for five years already?
What will you do if a discharge planner at a skilled nursing facility, VA hospital, long term care insurance company, or government Medicaid Waiver program says, “We are super happy with the four home care agencies we have been referring to for the last three years as they handle all our difficult cases super well, they have well trained caregivers, and they have great specialty training in hospice and Alzheimer’s – so we are not looking for anyone else right now – but thanks for coming in though!” What will you say next? Without having a seasoned home care business coach/mentor to discuss the situations that occur each day – you will have a difficult time figuring out how to handle each situation and could end up getting a ‘black eye’ in your community before you ever get off the ground.
Get Your FREE “Questions To Ask” Document
Contact us to get a FREE copy of the “Questions To Ask About Support/Coaching”. Understanding who will be your home care business coach and what exactly you will be doing with them daily is very important to the success and growth of your organization long term. Click Here to request now!
Get a home care business license in Ohio
AHI Group will ensure you get your home care business license in the state of Ohio by ensuring your new agency meets all the documentation requirements (including submitting all the required Ohio compliant home care policies and procedures). AHI Group will assist you through the entire process end-to-end to successfully get your Ohio home care license. We guarantee you will get the license (assuming you pass the background check) or we will refund your entire AHI Group Membership fee. We stand by our service offering.
There is no additional cost from AHI Group to assist you in getting a home care license in an unlimited amount of additional states as you expand your business. Remember, AHI Group is motivated to help our members grow as we make our recurring revenue via our VA Program. The larger each agency gets, the more they bring on additional VA Program clients. It’s a win-win!
Home care policy and procedure manuals for your Ohio home care business
Our home care policy and procedure manuals and customized for your agency and written and prepared by our team of home care professionals.
Our home care professionals understand Ohio regulations and know how to provide the required documentation to get through the Ohio home care license process to allow you to start a successful home care business. We guarantee our home care business policies and procedure manuals will not only meet your needs, but pass all state license scrutiny in Ohio. Our team is always just a phone call away if you have any questions.
Private Duty Home Care Business Accreditation in Ohio
Accreditation for home care businesses is provided by three organizations listed below in the “Resources” section. These three organizations can get you accredited for an annual fee. The three accreditation organizations give you all the documents you need to get accredited with them. However, very few non-medical home care agencies choose to get accredited by one of the three accrediting organizations as it is not required for non-medical home care businesses – except if you live in the state of New Jersey (and they require accreditation after being in business for 12 months).
Ohio State Licensure Office Compliance Audits
Our team of home care business professionals will help ensure that you have all the policies and procedures you need for the state of Ohio to legally operate your new home care business. You can have the peace of mind knowing that you have the right legal documents to operate your home care business that can help you avoid failing state licensure compliance audits and on-site assessments. In addition, you can rest assured that you have the right legal terminology in your contracts and other documents to give you the best defense against any potential legal disputes with customers or employees down the road.
How will your home care business get paid as a provider?
- Private Pay
- Medicaid Waiver Programs
- Long Term Care Insurance
- Workers Compensation Insurance
- VA Pension Benefit Program & VA CCN Program
Home Care Business Training in Ohio
AHI Group provides 10 days of intensive initial training for all of its new home care agency members. Five days are via LIVE Broadcast over GoToMeeting Video. The other five days are remote at each members own pace via video and text-book. During the 10 days of training, our AHI Group members learn how to market their business, answer the phone, do a competitive analysis of other home care agencies in their area, price their services, hire quality caregivers, use technology to run their home care business, payroll, billing, HR, and much more.
Home Care Business Training and Ongoing Support
We realize that just because someone gets 10 days of initial intensive training, it doesn’t make them an expert in the field of home care! Therefore, we provide ongoing support and coaching from our team of former home care business owners. Our coaches have mandatory weekly scheduled calls with their assigned home care agency owners and are available anytime for one-on-one coaching sessions. The weekly home care calls are especially helpful as that is where multiple home care business owners (all part of AHI Group) get to interact with each other under the direction of the coach – and share their peaks and pits of the week.
Our home care business members learn from their coach and other home care business owners. Essentially, our home care business members get plugged into a home care community that allows them to share ideas and information with each other. This is worth its weight in gold when starting a home care business in Ohio!
Specialty Programs like our VA Program, Assisted Living Placements, and Non-Medical Staffing will give you the upper hand
Setting yourself apart from your competition is very important in starting any business – and especially in the home care business market-place in Ohio. Our unique Veterans Program allows our home care business owners to get into doors that would otherwise be likely closed. Contact our team to learn more about our unique Veterans Program that can drive a large revenue stream to your home care business and allow you to service our elderly veterans and their spouses who sacrificed so much for our country. That equates to a rewarding career as a home care business owner in Ohio.
AHI Group also has Assisted Living Placements and Non-Medical Staffing snap on businesses to compliment your home care business in Ohio. Just saying that you have a “telehealth device”, an “Alzheimer’s specialty”, or a “fall prevention program” won’t be enough to stand out from the crowd as almost all home care agencies are selling that story. AHI Group has Fall Prevention, Alzheimer’s and Telehealth specialties – but realizes that this will not be enough to stand out and therefore provides our members with our unique VA Program to get in doors and win business.
How to market your home care business in Ohio
The key to marketing your home care business in Ohio is to do things that other home care businesses in Ohio are not doing. It’s that simple. You have to stand out from the crowd of other home care businesses in your community. Failure to do this will result in you not being any different to the already embedded home care agencies who are well known in your community.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. Why would you want to refer to a new home care business if they don’t offer anything different to the home care businesses that you already refer to? It doesn’t make logical sense to take a risk on a new home care business unless they can offer something you are missing with your existing deck of home care businesses that you already refer to. Its that simple. AHI Group is the ONLY home care organization that has an in-house VA Program. This allows us to do things that no other home care business or home care organization can do with our elderly Veterans and their spouses. For more detailed information on our VA Program and why we dominate in the Veterans Home Care world across the nation – please request more information by Clicking Here!
Home Care Business Resources in Ohio
Ohio Department of Public Health
https://odh.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/odh/home
Ohio Association for Health Services at Home
Ohio Department of Health
Ohio Home Health Care Licensing Division
Additional Information for Home Care Agencies in Ohio
National Home Care Facts & Statistics
Reporting Fraud and Abuse -OIG
Filing Complaint against a Home Health Care Agency
Hiring Private Home Care Workers
Home Care Accreditation Organizations
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations
Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc. (ACHC)
Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP)
Federal Government Agencies Involved With Home Care
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
National Patient Safety Foundation
AHI Group | StartupHomeCare is North America’s premier non-franchise business opportunity in the non-medical home care industry. If you are looking for a rewarding career as a business owner in a booming industry you have found the best! StartupHomeCare is the training and support division of AHI Group, Inc – a nationwide Membership Organization of 300+ home care agencies www.ahi-group.com. AHI Group | StartupHomeCare provides a comprehensive non-medical home care agency start-up and support solution for those individuals who want to truly own their business and receive unlimited financial return while providing a valuable and rewarding service to help seniors stay independent in their own homes vs. going to a facility.
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