Private Healthcare Facilities
Provides care for terminally ill persons who usually have life expectancies of 6 months or less
What is Hospice?
The top of a hospital organizational chart.
Who is Hospital Board?
This is insurance for military personnel.
What is TRICARE?
Responsible for regulating food and drug products sold to the public.
What is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Provides rehabilitation for drug and alcohol abuse.
What is Substance abuse clinic?
Provide vision examinations, prescribe glasses or contact lenses and check for the presence of eye disease.
What is Optical Centers?
This person oversees the RNs and LVNs
Who is Head or Charge Nurses?
Provides health care to uninsured children of working families who earn too little to afford private insurance.
What is CHIP?
Establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
Provide care in a patient’s home. Examples of services include nursing care, personal care, therapy (physical, occupational, speech, respiratory), and homemaking.
What is Home Health Care?
Provide special care for victims of accidents or sudden illnesses.
What is Emergency Care Services?
This position oversees all nursing departments.
Who is Chief Nursing Officer?
Specific amount of money the patient pays for services [paid at each medical visit].
What is co-pay?
This government agency is concerned with the causes, spread, and control of diseases in populations.
What is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
An international agency sponsored by the United Nations; compiles statistics and information on disease, publishes health information, and investigates and addresses serious health problems throughout the world.
What is World Health Organization?
Performs minor surgical procedures; frequently called “one-day” surgical centers because patients are sent home immediately after recovery.
What is Surgical?
Medical Records fall below this department in the organizational chart.
What is Business Office?
Allows a patient to select any health care provider, inside or outside of the network.
What is PPO?
An international agency sponsored by the United Nations; compiles statistics and information on disease, publishes health information, and investigates and addresses serious health problems throughout the world.
What is World Health Organization?
Also known as occupational health clinics that provide health care for employees of the industry or business by performing basic examinations, teaching accident prevention and safety.
What is Industrial Health Care Center?
Allows individuals who can care for themselves to rent or purchase an apartment in the facility. Services such as meals, housekeeping, laundry, transportation, social events, and basic medical are provided.
What is independent living and assisted living facilities?
These two positions make up the Medical Staff.
What is Hospital Board and Chief Executive Officer?
Mandates all individuals to have minimum health insurance.
What is ACA?
Federal agency established to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for Americans.
What is Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)?
Offices that are privately owned by one physician to large complexes that operate as a corporation and employ many physicians and other health care professionals. Medical services obtained in these facilities can include diagnosis, treatment, examination, basic laboratory testing, minor surgery.
What is Medical offices?