Government Agencies
An organization that promotes Physical Therapy.
What is The APTA?
Hospitals that do not specialize in a specific type of medicine.
What is general hospitals or STACH
Emergency care at school incase of accidents or sudden illness.
What is School Health Service?
places of residence for people who require constant nursing care, mostly elderly people
What is Nursing Homes?
the study of hearing disorders
What is Audiology?
Administration that has the acronym of JCAHO
What is the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations?
Hospitals that provide acute care with a LOS longer than 21 days.
What is a LTACH?
Responsible for food and pure water, liscensing health education, deal with drug and alcholic abuse.
What is State Public Health Services?
set of activities intended to improve patient care and reduce the need medical services
What is Care Management?
What is Imaging?
Administers the nation’s major healthcare programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the Health Insurance Marketplace, while working to improve healthcare quality, access, and efficiency.
What is CMS The centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
Hospitals where people with severe mental illness are in.
What is State Psychiatric Hospitals?
What is US Public Health Service?
a healthcare plan by requiring preauthorization for visits to specialists
What is Managed Care?
the branch of medicine that deals with disease and abnormalities of the heart
What is Cardiology?
An independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation.
What is the National Committee for Quality Assurance?
Hospital that cares for veterans who served in the US forces and is federaly supported.
What is Veterans Administration Hospital(VA)?
Around to help protect all americans, mostly people who aren't able to help themselves.
What is US Departments of Health amd Human Services?
when you remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood when the kidneys stop working properly
What is Renal Dialysis?
the study of the urine and urinary organs in health and disease
What is Urology?
They help monitor for disease outbrakes and come up with what will help keep us safe.
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)?
Hospitals that provide healthcare for injuries and disease at low cost for people who are not in the best living condition.
What is a County Hospitals?
provides training for health workers, they give medical care and medical research
What is State University Medical Centers?
process that helps people who have been disabled by sickness or injury to recover as many of their original ability if daily living as possible, patients may recieve prothetics
What is Rehabilitation?
the branch of medicine or biology that deals with anatomy, functions, and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous systems.
What is Neurology?