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What is an Accountable Care Organization?

A group of providers and suppliers of services that work together to coordinate care for patients receiving Medicare health benefits.

What is Accreditation?

The process by which an external entity reviews an organization or program of study to determine if it meets certain predetermined standards.

What are Adult Daycare Services?

Programs targeted to elderly persons during daytime hours that offer health and social services such as family counseling, physical activities, nursing assessments, and craft activities.

Who is considered an Allied Health Professional?

An individual, other than a physician, dentist, nurse, or physician assistant, who has graduated from an educational program in a health-related science and shares responsibility with clinicians for delivering health care services.

What is Ambulatory Health Care?

Care given to patients who are not confined to an institutional bed as inpatients at the time care is rendered.

What are Block Grants?

Designated amounts of funding provided by Congress to individual states that decide where and how to spend the provided moneys.