The Healthcare System
The whole person, not just the person's physical condition or disease
What is holistic?
A medical assistance program for people who have a low income, as well as for people with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
Care given in long-term care facilities for people who need 24-hour skilled care.
What is long-term care?
Touching a person without his or her consent
What is battery?
Legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care they wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves.
What is an advanced directive?
People who live here are able to provide most of their care, but they may need some limited help with medications, transport, housekeeping.
What are assisted-living facilities?
Medical conditions determined by a doctor.
What is diagnoses?
Health care that is provided in a person’s home.
What is home health care?
Threatening or attempting to touch a person without their consent, causing that person to fear bodily harm
What is assault?
A signed, dated, and witnessed legal document that appoints someone else to make the medical decisions for a person in the event he or she becomes unable to do so.
What is a durable power of attorney? (POA)
People who live here are unable to care for themselves at home yet do not need to be hospitalized.
aA federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, have certain disabilities or permanent kidney failure, or are ill and cannot work.
What is Medicare?
Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist.
What is skilled care?
Confining another person against his or her will
What is false imprisonment?
A document that outlines the medical care a person wants, or does not want, in case she becomes unable to make those decisions
What is a living will?
An organization that improves the quality of life for people who live in long-term care facilities by making sure that resident's receive a certain standard of care
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
A disease or condition that will eventually cause death.
What is terminal illness?
Holistic, compassionate care given to people who have approximately six months or less to live.
A deception that could cause harm or intentionally misrepresenting someone
What is fraud?
a medical order that instructs medical professionals not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
What is Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)?
Numerous rights identified in the OBRA law that relate to how residents must be treated while living in a facility
What is Resident's Rights?
A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs
What is a policy?
Care for people who need some help during certain hours, but who do not live in the facility where care is given.
What is adult care services?
Failing to do what a "careful and reasonable" person would do
What is negligent?
a federal law that requires health information be kept private and secure and that organizations take special steps to protect this information.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act? (HIPPA)