Hospitals
Type that offer a wide range of services?
General Hospitals
Live in apartments, may need help with medications or transportation- what are these-allows individuals to care for themselves.
Assisted Living Facilities
MD who specializes in the eyes- cataracts, glaucoma,
Ophthalmologist
These perform diagnostic tests
Laboratory Centers
These clinics may offer treatment of STD's, immunizations, and TB screenings.
Health Department
Name for hospitals specializing in cancer?
Oncology Hospitals
Places where the person resides to get skilled nursing care.
Extended Care Facilities of Long Term Care (LTC) Facilities
Provide vision exams but is not a medical doctor
Optometrist
They come to your house to give you care- could be RN's, CNA's, PT's
Home Health
This word means the hospital is for profit.
Proprietary
Name for hospitals specializing in children?
Pediatric Hospitals
Government hospitals for the military or retired military?
VA or Veteran's Hospitals
Agency for end of life care.
Hospice
These clinics are for those with chronic renal (kidney) failure.
Dialysis Clinics
What is palliative care offered by hospice?
Comfort measures
Names for hospitals specializing in mental diseases?
Psychiatric Hospitals
Type of personal medicine in which the primary care MD will make house calls- you pay a monthly amount to have this available. Usually for the rich.
Concierge medicine
Perform prenatal birth screenings and counsel on hereditary abnormalities.
Genetic Counselors
This is the person who generally cleans your teeth at the Dentist's office.
Dental Hygienist
Non-profit agency that responds to emergencies and natural disasters.
American Red Cross
Type of hospitals specializing in Physical and Occupational Therapy?
Rehabilitation Hospitals
______ Centers- places you go to for eye exams and glasses.
Optical
MD specialist of the lungs
Pulmonologist
Located in large companies and provide healthcare to employees.
Industrial Health Care Centers
Non-Profit agency concerned with the heart- we certify BLS through this agency.
American Heart Association