Types of Facilities
Agencies
Insurance
Organizational Structure
Terminology
100
This type of facility is one of the main types of health care facility and offers various types of services including diagnostics, treatment, and surgery.
What is a hospital?
100
This agency is responsible for addressing health situation around the world.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
100
This type of insurance is managed by the state and is available for low-income families and people with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
100
This group in the hospital is responsible for determining what is wrong with a patient.
What is are diagnostic services?
100
This is the term given therapies that are used in place of normal therapies.
What are alternative therapies?
200
This type of facility mainly provides assitance and care for elderly patients. These patients are often called residents.
What is a long term care factility?
200
This agency is concerned with the spread of disease.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
200
This type of insurance is offered by the federal government and is for elderly patients.
What is Medicare?
200
This services is responsible for providing patient care.
What are therapeutic services?
200
This is what you must pay every month to have health insurance.
What is a premium?
300
This type of facility specialized in treating eye problems.
What is an optical center?
300
This agency is a federal agency responsible for regulating food and drug products sold in the United States.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
300
This type of insurance requires that you utilize a primary care physician and that all referrals for specialized care go through this physician. You are also required to use affiliated doctors only.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)?
300
This service is responsible for keeping the facility clean and maintaining equipment.
What are support services?
300
This is the amount you must pay before health insurance companies will begin to assist in paying for services.
What is a deductible?
400
This type of facility does not alway see patients, but is responsible for much of the diagnostic testing of samples taken from patients.
What is a laboratory.
400
This agency is a national agency concerned with health problems in the United States.
What is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)?
400
Unlike the HMO, this type of insurance allows you to use doctors at certain hospitals and is usually less expensive.
What is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)?
400
This service is responsible for management of the hospital or facility.
What are administrative services?
400
Health care that promotes physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual well-being by treating the whole body, mind, and spirit.
What is holistic health care?
500
This type of health care agency provides help to terminally ill patients with life expectancies of six months or less.
What is a hospice care agency?
500
This agency establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
500
This type of insurance provides assistance to workers who have been injured on the job.
What is Worker's Compensation?
500
This service is responsible for documenting and billing patients.
What are information services?
500
These therapies are used in conjunction with conventional medical therapies.
What are complementary therapies?