Intro to Healthcare quiz 1

Joint commission

Joint commission

Performance checks for hospitals (accreditation) to ensure licensing and Medicaid reimbursement

Specialty hospitals

Treat special conditions, age groups, or other grouping (cancer, pediatric, rehab)

Ambulatory facility

Walk in facility (urgent care, genetic counseling centers, optical centers outpatient clinics, surgical clinics for outpatient services)

Long term care facility (LTC)

• mainly take care of elders (geriatric)

• Patients have chronic (lifelong) illnesses

• Can take care of people with disabilities

LTC- residential care

Provide basic care (nursing homes)

LTC- extended care facility

Provide skilled nursing care (rehab)

LTC-assisted/independent living facility’s

• Provide basic services (meals, housekeeping) and medical care

• independent living

Mental health services

Counsels=ing centers, psychiatric clinics substance/physical abuse

Home health care

They come to your house and provide

• nursing

• Physical and other therapy

Hospice

• Provides palliative care (people die with dignity)

• Relieve symptoms not treat

• Make people last days good

Founder of the Red Cross

Clara burton

Four types of hospitals

• nonprofit

• Religious

• Government

• Private

ADL

Activities of daily living

Non-profit

Money goes back into the hospital

Profit

Money goes to owners/shareholders

OSHA

• Occupational safety and health administration

• Protects workers from job-related injures

CDC

• center of disease control and prevention

• Concerned with the cause, spread, and control of disease

FDA

• Food and drug administration

• Federally run

• Regular food/drugs sold to the public

WHO

• World Health Organization

• International agency

• Compile disease statistics

Public health system

• part of the us department of health and human services

• Provides services on state and local levels

• (Immunizations, environmental health and sanitation)

Voluntary agencies

American red cross

March of dimes

-founded by FDR in 1938

Initial goal: to care for polio victims

-present goal: focused on preventing birth defects and immortality