Vocab
Healthcare Facility Organizational Structure
Abbreviations
DHSR
Misc
200

The fine that is collected as a result of nursing home violations

What is Civil Money Penalty?

200

Superivses medical staff activities

What is a Medical Director?
200

DHSR

What is Division of Health Services?
200
Nursing Home Licensure and Certification Section

Healthcare Personnel Registry Section

What are the two sections of the DHSR?

200

•Nursing / CNA / PCA

• Physical therapy

• Occupational therapy

• Speech therapy

• Social services

• Nutritional and food services

• Respiratory therapy

• Homemaker services

What are Home health services?

400
Pertains to treating, fixing, or correcting a medical or surgical problem

What is therapeutic?

400

Responsible for provision of safe and adequate care at a reasonable cost

Makes facility policies

Delegates management to an administrator

What is a Governing body/Board of Directors?

400

CCRC

What is Continuing Care Retirement Care Community?
400

Investigations Branch

Center for Aide Registration and Education (CARE) Branch

What are the sections of the Healthcare Personnel Registry?

400
Elderly persons, disabled/handicapped, people with chronic illness

What are people that live in a Longterm care facility?

600
A sustained allegation against a person or facility

What is a finding?

600

To illustrate the chain of command and highlight immediate supervisors

What is the purpose of the Organizational Structure?

600

CMS

What is Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
600

What is an award given to facilities who are striving to create a higher standard of care for residents.

What is the NC NOVA?

600

Developmentally disabled adults

What are people that live in a group home?

800

Insurance for low income and other special circumstances

What is Medicaid?

800

Assists DON/ADON

Has to be a licensed nurse

Specific area of responsibility and shift

What is a Nurse Supervisor?

800
CMP
What is Civil Money Penalty?
800
The level at which DHSR functions
What is state?
800

Rest home

Assisted living

What are other names for Homes for the aged?

1000
To recover to original abilities or highest functional status

What is rehab?

1000
Has specific areas of responsibility

Supervises department staff

What is a Department head?

1000

NPDB

What is National Practitioner Data Bank?
1000
The registry a nursing home must access before hiring unlicensed staff

What is the NC DHSR Healthcare Personnel Registry?

1000

A type of long term care facility that gets funding from CMS

What is a nursing home?

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