CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS:

A-Plus Home Health Agency, LLC (APHHA) does a complete background check on every employee hired. Fingerprints are sent to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification (BCII) and the FBI if necessary.

We advise all employees before hiring that (APIIHA) will not employ anyone who has a felony in criminal activities such as drugs, sex, abuse and murder. There are other offenses that may also exclude employment at the discretion of management. The Ohio Department of Developmental disabilities and the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities required that we are obligate to a more stringent standard with background checks. Because of this, while you are employed with A-Plus Home Health Agency, LLC it is your obligation and responsibility to inform the Administrator or his or her designee. in writing, if you are formally charged with, convicted of, of plead guilty to a felony or misdemeanor. You must make this report in writing within the next scheduled business day of the charge and again when there is an outcome. No excuses will be allowed after 7 (seven) days. Failure to follow this process will be cause for dismissal.

Ohio law prohibits County Boards of Developmental Disabilities and private providers from hiring persons who have been convicted of or pled guilty to the following offenses:

Tier 1 - Never

2903.01 (aggravated murder);
2903.02 (murder):
2903.03 (voluntary manslaughter):
2903.11 (felonious assault);
2903.15 (permitting child abuse):
2903.16 (failing to provide for a functionally impaired person);
2903.34 (patient abuse and neglect);
2903.341 (patient endangerment):
2905.01 (kidnapping); 2905.02 (abduction);
2905.32 (trafficking in persons):
2905.33 (unlawful conduct with respect to documents);
2907.02 (rape):
2907.03 (sexual battery):
2907.04 (unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, formerly corruption of a minor); 2907.05 (gross sexual imposition):

2907.06 (sexual imposition);
2907.07 (importuning);
2907.08 (voyeurism):
2907.12 (Former felonious sexual penetration);
2907.31 (disseminating matter harmful to juveniles):
2907.32 (pandering obscenity):
2907.321 (pandering obscenity involving a minor);
2907.322 (pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor):
2907.323 (illegal use of minor in nudity-oriented material or performance); 2909.22 (soliciting/providing support for act of terrorism):
2909.23 (making terrorist threat);
2909.24 (terrorism);
2913.40 (Medicaid fraud):
2923.01 (conspiracy
2923.02 (attempt or
2923.03 (complicity) when the underlying offense is any of the offenses or violations described in this section of this rule:

Tier 2 - 10 Yr (since fully discharged from imprisonment, probation, and parole)

2903.04 (involuntary manslaughter);
2903.041 (reckless homicide):
2905.04 (child stealing as it existed prior to July 1. 1996);
2905.05 (criminal child enticement);
2905.11 (extortion);
2907.21 (compelling prostitution):
2907.22 (promoting prostitution);
2907.23 (procuring);
2909.02 (aggravated arson):
2909.03 (arson);
2911.01 (aggravated robbery):
2911.11 (aggravated burglary):
2923.12 (carrying concealed weapon);
2923.122 (illegal conveyance or possession of deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance):
2923.123 (illegal conveyance of deadly weapon into courthouse);
2923.13 (having weapons while under disability):
2923.161 (improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation or school); 2923.162 (discharge of firearm on or near prohibited premises):
2923.21 (improperly furnishing firearms to minor):
2923.32 (engaging in pattern of corrupt activity);

2913.46 (illegal used of food stamps or women, infants, and children program benefits);
2913.48 (workers' compensation fraud):
2913.49 (identity fraud);
2917.02 (aggravated riot);
2921.36 (illegal conveyance of weapons, drugs. or other prohibited items onto grounds of detention facility or institution);
2923.01 (conspiracy
2923.02 (attempt or
2923.03 (complicity) when the underlying offense is any of the offenses or violations described in this section of this rule:

Tier 2 10 Yr (since fully discharged from imprisonment, probation, and parole)

2923.42 (participating in criminal gang);
2925.02 (corrupting another with drugs):
2925.03 (trafficking in drugs);
2925.04 (illegal manufacture of drugs or cultivation of marijuana);
2925,041 (illegal assembly);
3716.11 (placing harmful objects in food or confection);

Tier 3 - 7 Yr (since fully discharged from imprisonment, probation, and parole)

959.13 (cruelty to animals);
959,131 (prohibitions concerning companion animals);
2903.12 (aggravated assault):
2903.21 (aggravated menacing);
2903.211 (menacing by stalking):
2905.12 (coercion):
2909.04 (disrupting public services);
2911.02 (robbery):
2911.12 (burglary):
2913.47 (insurance fraud);
2917.01 (inciting to violence):
2917.03 (riot);
2917.31 (inducing panic);
2919.22 (endangering children):
2919.25 (domestic violence);

2921.03 (intimidation):
2921.11 (perjury):
2921.13 (falsification in theft offense to purchase firearm):
2921.34 (escape);
2921.35 (aiding escape or resistance to lawful authority):
2925.05 (funding of drug or marijuana trafficking):
2925.06 (illegal administration or distribution of anabolic steroids):
2925.24 (tampering with drugs);
2927.12 (ethnic intimidation);

2923.01 (conspiracy 2923.02 (attempt), or 2923.03 (complicity) when the underlying offense is any of the offenses or violations described in this section of this rule

Tier 4 5 Yr (since fully discharged from imprisonment, probation, and parole)

2919.12 (unlawful abortion);
2903.13 (assault);
2903.22 (menacing):
2907.09 (public indecency):
2919.23 (interference with custody);
2907.24 (soliciting after positive human immunodeficiency virus test):
2907.25 (prostitution);
2921.12 (tampering with evidence);
2907.33 (deception to obtain matter harmless to juveniles);
2921.32 (obstructing justice):
2911.13 (breaking and entering):
2913.02 (theft):
2913.03 (unauthorized use of a vehicle):
2913.04 (unauthorized use of property. computer. cable. or telecommunication property);
2921.51 (impersonation of peace officer): 
2925.09 (unapproved drugs):
2913.05 (telecommunications fraud);
2925.11 (possession of drugs);
2913.11 (passing bad checks);
2925.13 (permitting drug abuse):
2913.21 (misuse of credit cards);
2925.22 (deception to obtain dangerous drugs);
2913.31 (forging identification cards);
2925.23 (illegal processing of drug documents):
2913.32 (criminal simulation):
2925.36 (tampering with drugs):
2913.41 (defrauding a rental agency or hostelry);
2925.55 (unlawful purchase of pseudoephedrine product);
2913.42 (tampering with records):
2925.56 (unlawful sale of pseudoephedrine product):
2913.43 (securing writings by deception):
2913.44 (personating an officer);
2913.51 (receiving stolen property);
2919.121 (unlawful abortion upon minor):
2919.123 (unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug):
2919.24 (contributing to unruliness or delinquency of child):
2921.24 (disclosure of confidential information);
2921.321 (assaulting/harassing police dog or horse/service animal);

2923.01 (conspiracy) 2923.02 (attempt), or 2923.03 (complicity) 2913.441 (unlawful display of law enforcement emblem): when the underlying offense is any of the offenses or violations 2913.45 (defrauding creditors): described in this section of this rule.

A felony contained in the Revised Code that is not listed above, if the felony bears a direct and substantial relationship to the duties and responsibilities of the position being filled.

Any offense contained in the Ohio Revised Code constituting a misdemeanor of the first degree on the first offense and afelony on a subsequent offense, if the offense bears a direct and substantial relationship to the position being filled and the nature of the services being provided.