Types of Hospitals
Treat a wide range of conditions and age groups, provide diagnostic, medical surgical, and emergency care services.
General hospital
Mainly provide assistance and care for elderly patients.
What is Long term care facilities
Provide care in a patient's home.
What is Home health care
A national agency that deals with health problems in the U.S.
What is U.S. Department of health and human services
A fee the individual pays for insurance coverage.
What is a premium.
Provide care for special conditions or age groups.
Specialty hospital
Vary from offices that are privately owned by one physician to large complexes that operate as corporations and employ many physicians. These facilities can diagnoses, treat, exam, perform basic laboratory test, and minor surgeries
What is medical offices
Provide guidance, counseling, psychiatric, and chemical abuse treatment.
What is Mental health facilities
Concerned with the causes, spread, and control of diseases in populations.
What is centers of disease control and prevention
A type of health insurance plan used by people ages 65 and up
Medicare
Operated by federal, state, and local government agencies; provide care for government service personnel and their dependents.
Government hospitals
Care for those who can no longer care for themselves.
What is residential care facilities
These facilities can perform special diagnostic test such as blood or urine test.
Laboratories
Established to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for Americans.
What is Agency for healthcare research and quality.
provides health insurance to uninsured children of working families who earn too little to afford private insurance but too much to be eligible for Medicaid.
What is the Children's Health Insurance plan.
University or College Medical Centers
Composed of a group of medical or dental doctors who share a facility and other personnel.
What is Clinics or satellite centers
Provide care to help patients with physical and mental disabilities obtain maximum self care and function.
What is rehabilitation facilities
Establishes and enforces standards (guidelines) that protect workers from job-related injuries or illnesses.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Prevents anyone from denying you insurance based on a health condition. Established in 1996, standards provide protection for privacy of health information in all states
What is HIPPA.
Examples of specialty hospitals (at least 2)
oncology hospital, pediatric hospital, trauma hospital, rehab hospital, orthopedic hospital
owned by ophthalmologist or optometrist; visual exams, eyeglasses/contact lenses.
What is optical centers
Works with couples who are pregnant or considering pregnancy- check for abnormalities
What is Genetic Counseling centers
Provide funding to encourage research directed at curing or treating diseases, and give example. They are supported by donations, membership fees, fundraisers, and federal or state grants.
What is Voluntary/nonprofit agencies
ex: american cancer society
American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, March of dimes
Components of HIPPA.
What is preventing health care fraud, tax related health provisions, and health care access, portability, and renewability