Healthcare Facilities & Services
This type of facility offers physical, occupational, recreational, speech, & hearing therapies; providing care to patients with physical or mental disabilities to obtain the maximum self-care & function, typically after an injury or illness.
Rehabilitation Facility
This government agency establishes & enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries & illnesses.
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
The law passed in 1996, with the purpose of protecting patient's confidentiality and allowing employees to maintain their health insurance between jobs.
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)
A fixed amount you pay for a type of covered health care service, typically paid at the time services are received.
Co-payment
Individual known as "The Father of Medicine" due to his development of a standard code of ethics still used today.
Hippocrates
These agencies are designed to provide care to patients in their home.
Home Health Care
This government agency is responsible for regulating and licensing health professionals in Virginia & enforcing the standards of practice to ensure safe and competent patient care.
Virginia Department of Health Professions (VDHP)
This type of health insurance plan provides treatment and coverage for employees injured on the job.
Worker's Compensation
An amount you owe during a coverage period (typically 1 year) for covered health services, before your insurance plan begins to pay.
Deductible
The century that Ether & Chloroform were introduced as forms of anesthetic, women became active participants in medical care, x-rays were discovered, and stethoscopes were invented.
19th Century (Industrial Revolution)
These facilities provide basic exams, accident prevention & safety training, and emergency care to employees of large companies.
Industrial (Occupational) Health Care Center
A division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), that is concerned with the causes, spread, and control of diseases within the United States.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
A government sponsored health insurance plan that provides coverage for qualified individuals and those aged 65 years and older.
Medicare
The dollar amount you pay to the health insurance company every month to be able to maintain coverage.
Premium
This century saw the first mercury thermometer, the invention of bifocals, development of the smallpox vaccine, and the first Cesarean section.
The 18th Century
Hospice Agency/Hospice Care
The United Nations agency that works to promote health, keep the world safe and serve vulnerable populations.
World Health Organization (WHO)
A government sponsored health plan that provides services and coverage to retired and active duty service members and their families.
Tricare
Includes the percentage of costs of covered health care service that you are responsible for paying after you have met your deductible. (Ex. 80/20)
Co-insurance
The name of the artist that used dissection to draw realistic images of the human body, and is responsible for the famous "Vitruvian Man".
Leonardo da Vinci
A large & major type of health care facility that treats a wide range of conditions and age groups, typically providing emergency, medical, diagnostic, and/or surgical outpatient and inpatient services.
General Hospital
An agency of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services that focuses on health research to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability within the United States
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
A type of health insurance plan/program with a group of doctors/providers that work together to provide health services to its members.
Managed Care Organization (MCO)
The term given to a health payment plan in which health care providers (physicians) are paid a set amount for each service they provide.
Fee-for-service Compensation
The name of the statistician and English social reformer, known as the founder of modern nursing, who came to prominence while caring for soldiers and training nurses during the Crimean War.
Florence Nightingale