Cincinnati Home Care, Inc.
A home health agency in Cincinnati, Ohio 45240
742 Waycross Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45240. (513) 771-2760.
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The short answer
Record last released by CMS on Oct 21, 2026.
- Not rated quality of patient care rating
- Not rated patient survey rating
- 2 deficiencies cited in the last three years
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean2
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
The last inspection on record was on Feb 6, 2025: a complaint and recertification inspection.
2 deficiencies cited in the last three years.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
When those deficiencies happened
2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2025. Most serious: Standard-level. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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Each deficiency, as cited
Rule titles as CMS’s inspectors cite them, set in sentence case.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
Feb 6, 2025: complaint and recertification inspection2 deficiencies
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12 Hours Inservice Every 12 Months
The inspectors’ words, 142 words
“12 hours inservice every 12 months CFR(s): 484.80(d) Standard: In-service training. A home health aide must receive at least l2 hours of in-service training during each 12-month period. In-service training may occur while an aide is furnishing care to a patient. This Standard is not met as evidenced by: Based on review of personnel records and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure home health aides were provided with 12 hours of in-service training in a 12 month period for one (Staff H) of three home health aidesreviewed. The agency census was 30. The personnel record of Staff H revealed a hire date of 09/08/20. Review of the in-service training requirements revealed Staff H received seven hours of in-service training. Interview on 02/06/25 at 3:00 PM Staff A confirmed Staff H did not receive 12 hours of in-service training every 12 months.”
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Promptly Alert Relevant Physician Of Changes
The inspectors’ words, 455 words
“Promptly alert relevant physician of changes CFR(s): 484.60(c)(1) The HHA must promptly alert the relevant physician(s) or allowed practitioner(s) to any changes in the patient’s condition or needs that suggest that outcomes are not being achieved and/or that the plan of care should be altered. This Element is not met as evidenced by: Based on medical record review, observations, policy review, and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure staff followed a physician’s order to report safety hazards and failed to report any changes in the patient’s condition to a physician. This affected Patient #3. The agency census was 30. Review of the medical record for Patient #3 revealed an admission for non-skilled services on 11/24/24. Diagnoses included end stage renal disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes mellitus. The certification periods of 11/24/24 to 01/22/25 and 01/23/25 to 03/23/25 were reviewed. Review of the plans of care for both certification periods revealed the physician ordered services of a home health aide four hours per day, four days per week, for a total of 16 hours a week. The plan of care also revealed the physician ordered supervisory and reassessments every 60 days by a skilled nurse. Both plans of care revealed a physician order for the home health aide to maintain a safe environment by ensuring clear walkways, removing clutter, and informing a supervisor of safety hazards. The home health aide and the skilled nurse were both ordered to be alert for changes of condition and safety and to report all changes to appropriate staff. A nurse’s home safety assessment, dated 11/24/24, recommended that the house would be safer if decluttered. A Registered Nurse’s communication note, dated 01/20/25, stated she met with the patient for a recertification and the patient reported having fallen and broken her ankle while attempting to walk in the house without her walker. The note further stated there were two visible stitches, serosanguineous fluid, and potentially pus drainage coming from the ankle wound. The medical record lacked documentation a physician was notified. The record contained no evidence the physician was notified of the patient’s ankle wound having drainage or of the hazardous cluttered home environment. Observations on 02/05/25 during a home visit of Patient #3 revealed the living room, dining room, and kitchen were visibly cluttered. Review of the facility policy titled “Reporting Significant Occurrences,” revealed staff members are instructed to report any changes in the patient’s condition or findings to the physician so that appropriate care plan changes are made as needed. Interview on 02/05/25 at 1:30 PM Staff A confirmed that there was no provider notification of serosanguineous fluid coming from the patient’s ankle wound and no agency notification of the safety hazard in the home of clutter.”
The one inspection in the last three years
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2025 | Complaint and recertification inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
Is it certified?
- Medicare-certified home health agency since Apr 26, 2007.
- Ownership: proprietary (for profit).
- No For hospices, home health agencies, hospitals and dialysis facilities, CMS writes deficiencies at two levels. Standard is the usual one; condition-level is the more serious, when a problem is serious enough that the provider doesn’t meet a whole condition of taking part in Medicare. Source: CMS, State Operations Manual. deficiency on record in the last three years.
CMS, Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
Has anything been proven against it?
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for home health agencies, so none are shown.
- 2 deficiencies cited in the last three years came from inspections that included a complaint investigation.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
Who does the caring?
- Offers nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, medical social services and home health aide services.
- CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for home health agencies.
CMS, Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
Who owns it?
- 4 owners or officers are people: Vinna Ugwu (owns 5% or more directly, 50%); Vinna Ugwu (managing employee (on the payroll), 50%); Obinna Ugwu (owns 5% or more directly, 50%); Obinna Ugwu (corporate director).
- No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
- No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.
CMS, Home Health Agency All Owners and Home Health Agency Enrollments. Released Sep 29, 2026. Updated quarterly.
How do patients fare?
- CMS gives no CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.: “The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report.”
- CMS gives no CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.: “No survey results are available for this period.”
CMS, Home Health Care Agencies and Home Health Patient Survey. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
| Measure | Rating |
|---|---|
| Quality of patient care ratingCMS star rating, 1 to 5 in half stars | Not rated |
| Patient survey ratingCMS star rating from its survey of the agency’s patients, 1 to 5 | Not rated |
How does it compare nearby?
- CMS gives this agency no quality of patient care rating to compare.
CMS, Home Health ZIP Codes and Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
| Place | Quality rating |
|---|---|
| Cincinnati Home Care, Inc. This home health agency | Not given |
| Afinity Healthcare Solutions LLC | Not given |
| Comfort and Care Home Health Agency Inc. | Not given |
| Quality Care LLC | Not given |
| Interim Healthcare of Cincinnati | 3 |
| American Mercy Home Care, LLC | 3.5 |
| Caretenders | 1.5 |
| Ohio Living Village Home Health | 3 |
| Children’s Hospital Home Health | Not given |
| Home Healthcare By Black Stone | Not given |
| Achieve Rehab & Home Health | 4 |
| Care Connection of Cincinnati | 4.5 |
What the record doesn’t say
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for home health agencies, so none are shown.
- Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
- QCOR says some of its home health reports are accurate or available only through May 19, 2021, because of a systems migration.
- Many home health agencies are inspected by a private accrediting organisation instead of the state, and QCOR’s home health file doesn’t appear to include those inspections: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.
Sources
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Care Agencies (6jpm-sxkc).
Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Patient Survey (ccn4-8vby).
Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR home health inspection reports (HHA_2567s_2018_to_2026YTD.xlsx).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Agency All Owners (fc009b2d-7846-44b1-b4a1-692f0c143879).
Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Agency Enrollments (15f64ab4-3172-4a27-b589-ebd67a6d28aa).
Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health ZIP Codes (m5eg-upu5).
Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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