Inpatient & Outpatient Services
Services that involve an overnight stay of a patient.
What are inpatient services?
What care involves a variety of services designed to meet a person’s health or personal care needs when they can no longer perform on their own.
What is long term care?
Who specializes in the preparation, dispensing, and management of medications and who provides pharmaceutical advice and guidance.
Pharmacist
They serve as gatekeepers in managed care and integrated delivery systems
Primary Care Providers
Insurance that covered anyone age 65 or older
What is Medicare?
Provides assistance in dispensing medications, daily activities, and with meal plans.
What is home health?
Some aspects of long-term care can be provided in a person’s community, what are these?
What are community and residential care
Who treat patients who have medical problems or injuries that limit their abilities to move
Physical Therapist
They use traditional methods of treatment, including drugs and surgery.
What are doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathic medicine (DO)?
Individuals that focus on the whole community, rather than on individuals, work to address issues such as access to health care, infectious disease control, injuries, ect.
What is a public health professional?
Also known as short-stay, it focuses on patients who stay less than 30 days.
What is acute care hospitals?
Roughly 2/3 of residents in a nursing home rely on [this government program] to pay for their care.
What is Medicaid
A specialist who specializes in cancer?
Oncologist
Physicians in non-primary care dealing with particular diseases or organ systems
What is a specialist?
To make cash payments to workers for lost work due to job related injuries or diseases
What is workers compensation?
Have graduate resident programs that are approved by Academic medical centers.
What is teaching hospitals?
If a client is receiving Long Term Care insurance and the policy is set up to pay the nursing home directly, how is this handled?
It’s added to the patient liability but not used in the gross income test.
Experts on the heart and blood vessels.
Cardiologist
In this incentive payment system physicians have incentive to choose easily reportable measures of clinical effectiveness.
Merit-based
Obtain health care services at discounted prices and reduce the rising costs of health care.
What is managed care organizations (MCOs)?
Services that do not require an overnight stay.
What is outpatient services?
Patient's physical, mental, social and spiritual needs must be met in the...
7 essential characteristics of long-term care
Delivers direct patient care and act as an advocate and health educator for patients, families, and communities
Nurse
Instead of focusing on a specific organ, disease, or age, they focus around the site of care.
Hospitalist
Various forms of cross-border economic activities.
What is globalization?