HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
This facility is one of the major types of health care facilities. It is classified as private or proprietary, religious, non-profit or voluntary and government depending on the sources of income received by the facility.
What is a Hospital?
This is an international agency sponsored by the United Nations, they compile statistics and information on disease, publish health information, and investigates and addresses serious health problems throughout the world.
What is the World Health Organization or WHO?
True or false, Voluntary agencies are called that because they run entirely on staff of volunteers
False, Nonprofit agencies employ many health care workers in addition to using volunteers to provide services.
What is the amount that must be paid by the patient for medical services before the policy begins to pay called?
What is the Deductibles
This act is composed of 5 components, and it was established in 1996
What is HIPAA, or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Name three of the more common hospitals
What is General,Specialty, and Government hospitals?
This national agency deals with health problems in the US, its goal is to protect the health of all Americans, especially those people who are in need, it provides more grant money than any other federal agency.
What is the US Department of Health and Human Services or USDHHS
This agency is a nonprofit US based organization that was created to ensure that patents receive the highest quality care in any health care setting. Meeting the standards of this agency is recognized as a symbol of quality.
What is the Joint Commission?
This is another type of health insurance plan that provides a managed care plan for the delivery of healthcare services. A monthly fee or premium is paid for membership and the fee stays the same regardless of the amount of healthcare used. The premium can be paid by an employer and or the individual. the care provided is directed toward preventative type healthcare. Therefore an individual insured under this plan has ready access to health examinations and early treatment and detection of disease. The insured is required to use only affiliated health care providers, if non-affiliated care provider is used, the insured will pay out of pocket
What is an HMO or Health Maintenance Organization?
This is U.S.government health insurance plan for all active duty nmilitary personnel and their dependents, survivors of military members, and retired members of the armed forces.
what is TRICARE?
These Facilities mainly provide assistance and care for elderly patients, usually called residents
What are Long term care facilities, or LTC's or LTCF'S
This agencies a division of the USDHHS and is involved in researching disease and conducting scientific studies.
What is the National Institutes of Health or NIH?
This agency promotes CPR and AED training, also Cheerios is endorsed by them:)
What is the American Heart Association?
This type of insurance is another type of managed health insurance plan usually provided by a large industry or company to their employees. It forms a contract with certain health care agencies such as a large hospital and specific doctors and dentists, to provide certain types of health care at reduced rates.This limits the employees to using the specific hospital and doctors, but lower rates are available, typically it requires a deductible and a co-pay, if the insured goes outside the affiliation, they will end up paying 40-60% of the bill.
What is a PPO or Preferred provider organization
This act was signed into law in March 2010, and by 2014 most of the provisions of the act were in place
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable care Act (PPACA) also known as the affordable care act or ACA?
This facility allows individuals who can care for themselves to rent or buy an apartment in that facility, but at the same time it will offer services such as meals, housekeeping, laundry, transportation, social events, and basic medical care.
What is Independent Living Facilities and Assisted living facilities.
This agency is another division of the USDHHS, it is concerned with the causes, spread and control of diseases in populations.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC?
This agency promotes healthy diet, decreased sugar intake, and maintaining healthy glucose levels.
What is the American Diabetes Association?
This is a federal government program that provides healthcare for those over the age of 65, for any person who has a disability that has been receiving Social Security payments for 2 yrs, any person suffering from end stage renal failure
What is Medicare?
This government funded insurance provides for health care for those with low incomes, children who qualify for public assistance and individuals who are diusabled or blind
What is Medicaid?
This facility is often part of other facilities but can operate as separate health care services. It can perform special diagnostic test such as blood or urine tests.
What are laboratories?
This agency establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job related injury and illnesses, issues standards on things such as limits on radiation and chemical exposure and use of personal protective equipment.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA?
This agency advocates for the increased research in the more severe types of dementia
What is the Alzheimer's Association?
there are 3 types of medicare, this part covers hospital insurance, which covers hospital services, care provided by extended care facility or home health care agency after hospitalization, and hospice care for people with terminal illnesses.
What is type A?
This type of insurance is where the patient and the insurance company shares expenses, typically80% company, 20% patient
What is Co-Insurance?