173-39-02.2 Alternative meals service.

(A) Alternative meals service is a service designed to sustain a consumer’s health by enabling the consumer to procure up to two meals per day from non-traditional providers, such as restaurants.

(B) A unit of service is one meal.

(C) An eligible provider of alternative meals services is a certified long-term care consumer-directed individual provider.

(D) A certified provider of alternative meals services must:

(1) Maintain all appropriate vendor licenses; and

(2) Prepare meals in compliance with all applicable federal, state, county, and local laws and regulations governing the preparation, handling and delivery of food.

Effective: 03/31/2006

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 10/15/2010

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 173.02, 173.391

Rule Amplifies: 173.39, 173.391