Ohio Admin. Code 173-4-05.2 - Older Americans Act nutrition program: home-delivered meals projects
(A)
The AAA-provider
agreement is subject to rules
173-3-06 and
173-4-05 of the Administrative
Code.
(B)
Delivery:
(1)
Availability:
(a)
Per-meal
delivery:
(i)
To
a consumer who chooses to receive per-meal deliveries and needs meals on five
or more days per week, the provider shall deliver at least one meal per day for
five or more days per week.
(ii)
To a consumer
who chooses to receive per-meal deliveries, but does not need meals on five or
more days per week, the provider shall deliver at least one meal per day on
days that the consumer needs meals.
(b)
Periodic
delivery: The provider has flexibility to deliver meals to cover multiple
mealtimes in one delivery to consumers who choose periodic
deliveries.
(c)
State of emergency: During a state of emergency
declared by the governor or a federal public health emergency, the provider has
flexibility to, in one delivery, deliver meals to cover multiple mealtimes for
consumers who received meals before the state of emergency (or federal public
health emergency) by per-meal delivery or periodic delivery.
(2)
Successful deliveries: The provider may deliver meals to the
consumer's home only when the consumer or the consumer's caregiver is home,
unless otherwise authorized by the AAA.
(C)
Emergency
closings: The provider shall develop and implement emergency preparedness plans
for emergency closings due to short-term weather-related emergencies, loss of
power, kitchen malfunctions, natural disasters, a state of emergency declared
by the governor (or a federal public health emergency), etc. that include both
of the following:
(1)
Providing timely notification of emergency situations
to consumers.
(2)
Distributing either of the following:
(a)
Information to
consumers on how to stock an emergency food shelf.
(b)
Shelf-stable
meals to consumers for an emergency food shelf.
(D)
Quality assurance: Each year, the provider shall implement a
plan to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the project's operations and
services to ensure continuous improvement by reviewing the existing project and
the needs or interest of consumers, staff, or volunteers.
(E)
Delivery
verification: The following are the mandatory reporting items for each meal
delivery that a provider retains to comply with the requirements under
paragraph (B)(9) of rule
173-3-06 of the Administrative
Code:
(1)
Consumer's name.
(2)
Delivery
date.
(3)
Number of meals delivered.
(4)
A unique
identifier of the consumer, the consumer's caregiver, or the delivery person to
attest to the delivery.
Replaces: 173-4-05.2
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 121.07, 173.01, 173.02, 173.392; 42 U.S.C. 3025; 45 C.F.R. 1321.11, 1321.17
Rule Amplifies: 173.39, 173.392; 42 U.S.C. 3025, 3030e, 3030g-21; 45 C.F.R. 1321.11, 1321.17
Prior Effective Dates: 03/23/2009, 09/01/2016, 08/24/2017, 06/11/2020 (Emer.), 12/31/2020, 01/29/2022
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