Hospitals
These hospitals treat a wide range of conditions.
What is General Hospitals?
What are patients in long-term care facilities commonly called?
What are residents?
These facilities can range from privately owned offices to large complexes employing many doctors and other healthcare professionals.
What are medical offices?
These services provide special care for accidents or sudden illness.
What are emergency care services?
These centers provide vision examinations and prescribe eyeglasses or contact lenses.
What are optical centers?
These hospitals care for certain conditions or age groups, such as burn, oncology, pediatric, psychiatric, rehabilitation, or orthopedic patients.
What are specialty hospitals?
Name the three types of long-term care facilities.
What are Nursing homes, assisted living, and skilled nursing?
These offices can provide general or specialized dental care
These emergency services are frequently operated by fire departments.
What are rescue squads/teams?
These services provide care in a patient's home, including nursing care, personal care, therapy, and homemaking.
What is home health?
These hospitals are operated by federal, state, or local government
What are government hospitals?
This type of long-term care provides basic physical and emotional care for individuals who cannot care for themselves
A group of healthcare providers who share a facility and staff is called what?
What is clinic?
These facilities perform diagnostic tests and can be stand-alone or part of another facility.
What are labs?
These agencies provide care for terminally ill persons with a life expectancy of six months or less.
What are hospice agencies?
These facilities provide healthcare services, research, and education and may be funded by private or government sources.
What are university facilities?
This type of facility provides skilled nursing and rehabilitative care and may provide dialysis and heart monitoring.
What are skilled nursing facilities?
Name one type of specialized clinic listed in the presentation
What are Surgical, emergency care, rehabilitation, diabetes, or oncology clinic?
This type of laboratory prepares dentures, retainers and other devices.
What are dental labs?
These facilities deal with disorders ranging from addiction to schizophrenia to abuse and other disorders and may include psychiatric clinics and hospitals
What are mental health facilities?
Name the four government levels listed in the presentation
What are Federal, state, county, and city?
In this type of facility, individuals purchase or rent a unit and may receive meals, housekeeping, laundry, transportation, social events, and basic medical care.
What are Assisted living facilities?
Name two of the four types of clinics that health departments may offer.
What are Pediatric care, sexually transmitted diseases, respiratory diseases, or immunizations?
With this type of emergency service, people can be airlifted for swifter transportation or due being in rural area.
What are helicopters?
This center works with individuals who are pregnant or considering pregnancy and can perform prenatal screening and check for genetic abnormalities.
What are genetic counseling centers?