Types of Facilities
Agencies
Insurance
Organizational Structure
Vocabulary
100

A type of facility is one of the main types of health care facility and offers various types of services including diagnostics, treatment, and surgery.

A hospital

100
This agency is concerned with the spread of disease.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
100
This type of insurance is managed by the state and is available for low-income families and people with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
100
This group in the hospital is responsible for determining what is wrong with a patient.
What is are diagnostic services?
100

What is the meaning of SDOH

Social Determinant of Health 

200

This type of facility mainly provides assistance and care for elderly patients. These patients are often called residents.

Long term care facility?

200
This agency is a federal agency responsible for regulating food and drug products sold in the United States.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
200
This type of insurance is offered by the federal government and is for elderly patients.
What is Medicare?
200
This services is responsible for providing patient care.
What are therapeutic services?
200

What does AMA stand for?

Assistant Medical Assistant 

300

This type of facility specializes in care for terminally ill individuals nearing the end of their life. 

Hospice

300
This agency is responsible for addressing health situation around the world.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
300
This type of insurance requires that you utilize a primary care physician and that all referrals for specialized care go through this physician. You are also required to use affiliated doctors only.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)?
300
This service is responsible for keeping the facility clean and maintaining equipment.
What are support services?
300

what does CCMA stand for 

Certified Clinical Medical Assistant 

400

This type of facility does not alway see patients, but is responsible for much of the diagnostic testing of samples taken from patients.

Laboratory Department

400
This agency establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
400
Unlike the HMO, this type of insurance allows you to use doctors at certain hospitals and is usually less expensive.
What is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)?
400

This service is responsible for management of the hospital or facility.

Administrative services

400

Recognition given by a state agency when a person meets the qualifications for a particular occupation given after the person passes a licensure examination required to practice

What is licensure?

500

This type of health care agency provides help to patients needing assistance with mobility 

Physical therapy 

500

A division of the Department of Health and Human Services that conducts research and provides information to promote and improve public health through 27 different agencies

What is The National Institutes of Health (NIH)?

500

This type of insurance provides assistance to workers who have been injured on the job.

What is Worker's Compensation?

500

This department is responsible for documenting and billing patients.

Information Services 

500

A digital record that contains information about a patient and spans his or her entire medical history and experiences

What are electronic health records (EHR)?

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