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Hospitals:
LTC Facilities
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Miscellaneous:
100
They treat a wide range of conditions and age groups; usually provide diagnostic, medical, surgical, and emergency care service.
What is General Hospitals
100
They mainly provide assistance and care for elderly patients usually called residents. Also provide care for individuals with disabilities or handicaps and individuals with chronic or long term illnesses.
What is Long Term Care Facilities (LTC's or LTCF's)
100
An international agency sponsored by the United Nations; compiles statistics and information on diseases, publishes health information and addresses serious health situations throughout the world.
What is World Health Organization (WHO)
100
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Tricare Mediciad Medicare Medigap
What is a Health Insurance Plan?
100
Establishes and enforces standard that protect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
200
Care for special conditions or age groups; examples include burn hospitals, oncology (cancer) hospitals, pediatric (or children's) hospitals, psychiatric hospitals (dealing with mental diseases and disorders), orthopedic hospitals (dealing with bone, joint, or muscle diseases), and rehabilitative hospitals offering services such as physical/ occupational therapy.
What is Specialty Hospitals
200
They are nursing homes or geriatric homes; designed to provide physical and emotional care to individuals who can no longer care for themselves.
What is Residential Care Facilities
200
A national agency that deals with the health problems in the United States. (NIH) National Institute of Health- a division of the USDHS involved in research on disease.
What is U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
200
A federal government program that provides health care for almost all individuals over the age of 65.
What is Medicare?
200
1)Health care access, portability, and renewability 2)Preventing health care fraud and abuse administrative simplification and medical liability reform 3) Tax related health provisions 4)Applications and enforcement of group health plan requirements 5) Revenue offsets Compliance regulations for all health care agencies was required by April 2004
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)"
300
They are operated by federal, state, and local government agencies; examples: Veterans Administration Hospitals (for veterans), State psychiatric hospitals, and State rehab centers.
What is Government Hospitals
300
They are designed to provide skilled nursing care and rehab care to prepare patients or residents for return to home environments or other long term care facilities.
What is Extended Care or Skilled Care Facilities
300
Another division of the USDHHS concerned with causes, spread, and control of disease in populations
What is Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
300
A health care plans that help pay expenses not covered by medicare.
What is medigap?
300
An approach that has developed in response to rising health care cost.
What is managed care?
400
They provide hospital services along with research and education; can be funded by private and/or governmental sources.
What is University or College Medical Centers
400
They allow individuals who can care for themselves to rent or purchase an apartment in the facility. they offer meals, house keeping, laundry, transportation, social events, and basic medical care such as assisting with medical care.
What is Independent Living or Assisted Living
400
A federal agency responsible for regulating food and drug products sold to the public.
What is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
400
A medical assistance program that is jointly funded by the federal government and state government but operated by individual states.
What is Medicaid?
400
Supported by donations, membership fees, fund-raisers and federal or state grants. They provide health services at national, state, and local levels.
What is voluntary agencies or non-profit agencies?
500
They are required in any type of hospital facility at all levels.
What is a wide range of trained health care workers
500
This allows an individual to move readily from one level of care to the next when health needs change.
What is Long Term Care Facilities
500
A federal agency established in 1990 to research quality of health care delivery and Identify the standards of treatment that should be provided by health care facilities.
What is Agency for health care policy and research? (AHCPR)
500
Formally called CHAMPUS Civilian Health and Medical Programs for the Uniform Services a US government health insurance plan for all military personnel.
What is Tricare?
500
1) Surgical clinics or surgicenters 2) Urgent or emergency care clinic 3) Rehabilitation clinics 4) Outpatient clinics 5) Health department clinics 6) Medical center clinics
What is clinics or satellite centers?