Types of Care
This type of care includes routine physicals, immunizations, and wellness education to keep patients healthy.
What is preventive care?
Hospitals are classified into these four categories based on their sources of income.
What are private/proprietary, religious, non-profit, and governmental?
This facility provides end-of-life care to patients expected to live six months or less.
What is hospice?
This federal agency protects the health of all Americans by providing vital human services, especially to those least able to help themselves.
What is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
The monthly amount paid for insurance regardless of the amount of care received.
What is a premium
This type of care includes routine physicals, immunizations, and wellness education to keep patients healthy.
What are primary care providers?
These hospitals provide care for patients hospitalized for a few days to weeks and offer a wide range of services without specializing.
What are general hospitals?
These centers perform surgical procedures that are less invasive and more cost-effective than hospital surgery.
What are outpatient surgical centers?*
This agency monitors and prevents disease outbreaks, including bioterrorism, and maintains national health statistics.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Health insurance provided by state and federal government for people who are blind, disabled, or of low income.
What is Medicaid
This type of care is provided by specialists who limit their practice to treating one specific type of problem
What is specialty care?
These hospitals focus on specific populations, conditions, or diseases like cancer or cardiac care.
What are specialty hospitals?
These facilities provide care in the home for patients who need health services but not hospitalization.
What are home healthcare agencies?
This administration assures the safety of foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Physician groups and hospitals that work together to give comprehensive care at reduced costs to large companies.
What are Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs)
Also called outpatient care, patients receive treatment and return home the same day.
What is ambulatory care?
This type of facility bridges the gap between independent living and nursing homes.
What is assisted living?
Found in educational institutions, these services provide urgent care and monitor chronic diseases like asthma and diabetes
What are school health services?
This agency imposes safety and health legislation to prevent injury, illness, and death in the workplace.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Insurance that covers employees who are injured or become ill at work, including payment for lost wages and medical bills.
What is Workers' Compensation
Medical services provided through interactive audiovisual media like computers or television, especially useful for remote areas.
What is tele-health care or telemedicine?
These facilities are places of residence for people requiring constant nursing care with significant health conditions
What are nursing homes?
Located in large companies, these centers provide healthcare for employees including examinations and safety training.
What are industrial health care centers?
These federally supported hospitals provide care for people who served in the armed forces.
What are Veterans Administration Hospitals
Examples include the American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, and American Heart Association.
What are nonprofit health organizations