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Ambulatory Surgical Centers/Outpatient Surgical Facilities

Allow patients to receive certain surgical procedures outside a hospital environment. Offers surgeries at a lower cost while also reducing the risk of exposure to infection. They don’t provide diagnostic services or clinic hours.

Birth Centers

A healthcare facility for childbirth that focuses on the midwifery model. They aim to create a birth environment that feels more comfortable to the mother and allow for a cost-effective, family-inclusive birth. They are not typically equipped with the same contingency equipment and staff as a hospital. They only accommodate only healthy pregnancies without any known risk or complication factors. These facilities are guided by principles of prevention, sensitivity, safety, cost-effectiveness and appropriate medical intervention when needed.

Blood Banks

Allow donors to donate blood and platelets while also storing and sorting blood into components that can be used most effectively by patients.

Red Blood Cells

Carry oxygen

Platelets

Help the blood clot

Plasma

Has specific proteins that allow proper regulation of coagulation and healing.

Blood

Essential for human life. Cannot be manufactured—only donated.

Clinics and Medical Offices

A facility for diagnosis and treatment of outpatients. These healthcare facilities can be a physician’s private practice, a group practice setting or a corporately owned clinic that may be connected to a larger healthcare system or hospital. They cover a lot of ground in healthcare. The goal of these facilities is to give people preventative care and important diagnoses with as much convenience as possible.

Diabetes Education Centers

To help patients manage their disease and to help people at risk for diabetes to avoid it, if possible. They typically offer classes, education, support groups and a variety of resources to help patients manage their diabetes and live as complication-free as possible.

Dialysis

This is a process that filters and cleans the blood artificially—the work functioning kidneys normally take on.

Hospice Homes

This is a model that provides not only medical support, but also emotional and even spiritual support for patients and their families.

Hospitals

They are the ultimate “catch-all” healthcare facility. Their services can vary greatly depending on their size and location, but their goal is to save lives. They typically have a wide range of units that can be loosely broken into intensive care and non-intensive care units.

Intensive Care Units

Deals with emergencies and the most serious illnesses and injuries. Patients with imminently life-threatening problems go here.

Non-intensive Care Units

Includes things like childbirth, surgeries, rehabilitation, step-down units for patients who have just been treated in intensive care and many others. Typically, most hospital beds could be classified as this.

Imaging and Radiology Centers

These facilities, much like their hospital counterparts, offer diagnostic imaging services to patients.

Mental Health Treatment Centers

This type of healthcare facility is a grouping for many different types of facilities. They sometimes exist as a general institution for any mental health issue and aresometimes specialized. Examples of these kinds of facilities are suicidal thoughts (or suicidal ideation) treatment, depression treatment, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment, treatment for anxiety disorders, behavioral disorders and more.

Addiction Treatment Centers

They typically deal with drug and alcohol addictions, as well as problematic behavioral addictions like gambling, work, shopping or the internet.

Nursing Homes

They offer a living situation for patients whose medical needs aren’t severe enough for hospitalization, but are too serious to manage at home. Some offer services for heavier medical needs, such as speech and occupational therapy. Others try to create a homier atmosphere, and might operate like an apartment complex with medical staff on hand. They enable patients with injuries, acute illnesses or postoperative care needs to recover in an environment outside the hospital. These facilities offer long-term medical care ranging from simple to complex levels of need in an environment built for residents to live in long term instead of just staying a few weeks or months.

Orthopedic Medicine

Deals with muscles and bones.

Orthopedic Centers

They deal in everything from athletic injuries to therapy for patients with disabilities. They typically offer evaluation and diagnosis of the problem, as well as prevention, treatment and rehabilitation work involving bone, tendon, ligament, muscle and joint conditions.

Rehabilitation Centers

This is where patients can receive various therapies to help restore their abilities after an illness or injury. Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy are all processes that help people gain or regain skills they need to move around, work or speak in daily life. Practitioners at at this facility work with people to help them recover as much of their mobility and independence as possible. 

Urgent Care

These exist for on-demand healthcare needs that aren’t severe enough for the emergency room, but are too severe or concerning to wait for a scheduled appointment at the doctor’s office. This is a common choice when children get sick, for example, and need an immediate diagnosis or relief from symptoms. Providers in this facility are experts in acute care. They can set broken bones and treat limb fractures; diagnose a viral illness; run strep tests, blood tests and urine labs and provide treatment for injuries. If a problem is too severe, then these practitioners will call an ambulance or refer patients to a hospital or specialist.  

Telehealth

Represent a digital type of healthcare facility. It refers to the use of electronic communication technology to facilitate long-distance health care and health education. This might look like live video conferencing between patient and physician. Or a patient with an illness might wear a device to allow remote monitoring from their medical team.

Philosophy

Flows from the purpose of mission statement that delineates the set of values and belief that guide all actions of the organisation. It is the basic foundation that directs all further planning toward that mission.

Vision Statements

Used to describe future goals or aims of an organization. It is a description in words that conjures up a picture for all group members of what they want to accomplish together. It is critical then that an organization leader recognize that the organization will never be greater than the vision that guides it.

Purpose of Mission Statement

It is a brief statement (typically no more than three or four sentences) identifying the reason than an organization exists. It identifies the organization’s constituency and addresses its position regarding ethics, principles, and standard of practice. 

Health

It is an important factor in the formation of human resources development which will play a vital role in improving the qualities of human beings, who are the active agents of economic development. 

Health

It is a “State of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or deformity”. One of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, etc. is the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard.

Hospital

It is a specialized body where the patient care is the focal point and about which all activities of the hospital revolve. 

Hospital Management as a Process

Often it is said that it is a professionally managed hospital; it is well managed hospital, meaning thereby the management is described as an activity, type of work. Management applies certain principles, techniques and activities which are performed by certain management functions. What the hospital Management does is Management.

Hospital Management is a Subject

A subject, a discipline taught in universities, colleges or institutes. It is an accumulated body of knowledge that can be learned, at some places the broad specialty is Health Management including Hospital Management. Various degrees, diplomas, certificate courses are run by the institution/universities.

Hospital Management as People

The Management of this hospital is very insensitive; the hospital management of this hospital is not responsive to society are the terms often used. While using these terms, we are referring to body of people responsible for management, the board of directors, director, medical superintendent and his team.

Hospital Management as Career

News published in the national daily says that hospital management will be among top ten careers in the next decade.

Hawalskantz

“Management is the art of getting things done through and with the people in formally organized groups.”

George Terry

“Management is the process undertaken by one or more person to coordinate the activities of other persons to achieve results not attainable by any one person acting alone.”

McFarland

“Management is a distinct process consisting of activites of planning, organizing, actuating and controlling, performed to determine and accomplish stated objectives with the use of human beings and other resources.”

Hospital Administrator

He has to carry out management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and coordinating.

Management

Applies to all kinds of organization, whether government or non-government, small or big hospital, profit making hospitals or charitable hospitals.

Hotel Dieu, Paris

542 AD

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London

1123 AD

Spanish Hospital, Mexico City

1524 AD

Bellevue Hospital, New York

1736 AD

Pennsylvania Hospital

First general hospital in North America. 1751 AD

Massachusetts Hospital

1811 AD

Hospice

Latin word where the word hospital originated.

Sri Lankans

They are responsible for introducing the concept of dedicated hospitals to the world.

King Pandukabhaya

Had lying in homes and hospitals built in various parts of the country. 

Mihintale Hospital

The oldest one in the world.

King Ashoks

Founded 18 hospitals in 230 B.C. These were state supported hospitals.

Academy of Gundishapur

The first teaching hospital in the Persian Empire.

Continental Europe

The new hospitals were generally built and run by public funds.

United Kingdom

The hospital sector is dominated by National Health Service.

United States

The traditional hospital is a nonprofit hospital.

Mid-19th Century

Most of the Europe and United States had established a number of public and private hospital systems.

Late 20th Century

The concept of nonprofit hospital was switched over to chains of for-profit hospital

Pennsylvania Hospital

The first hospital in USA was founded in 1751.

Allopathic Medicine

During the 19th century, this was only one of many theories of the disease causation and cure.

Public Hospitals

The hospitals run by central or state government, local bodies and public sector undertaking. The hospitals are purely service organizations and nonprofit making hospitals

Voluntary Hospitals

This hospital is registered under the societies act or public trust act. They are run by trusts and on non-commercial basis examples, charitable hospitals.

Nursing Homes

Generally owned and, managed by individual doctors. These hospitals generally do not admit cases of medico legal.

Corporate Hospitals

These hospitals are run on the basis of profit earning and are registered under companies act.

General Hospital

These hospitals usually provide medical care in more than one broad specialty and there is no strict departmentation.

Rural Hospitals

The hospitals located in rural areas.

Specialty Hospitals

Hospital providing medical care usually in one or more specialty like TB Hospital, Eye Hospital, Cancer Hospital, heart centers etc.

Teaching Hospital

Usually the hospitals attached to medical college.

Isolation Hospital

Hospitals providing patient care to communicable diseases.

Hospital Administrator

Ensures that hospital runs effectively and efficiently. Has a great responsibility to understand and appreciate the emotional aspects of the patient care, his responsibility is to understand the specific needs of certain groups of patients, i.e. patients on wheelchairs, stretchers, geriatric group of patients, pediatric patients, neonates, serious cases, foreign nationals etc.

Hospital

A complex organization it is a labor-intensive organization working for day and night and without break; expectations of the workers are very high and unity of direction and unity of command are often violated. The role of administrator is more of coordination in nature instead of controlling he is coordinating officer. 

Management

The process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims.

Radiation

Energy that is transmitted by waves through space or through a medium (matter).

Energy

The capacity to operate or work.

Ultrasound/ Sonography

A field of study that creates anatomic images by recording reflected sound waves.

Sound

Form of mechanical energy that is transmitted through matter and images of the returning sound waves can be created.

Electrocardiography

Methods of imaging the electrical activity of the heart.

Electroencephalography

Methods of imaging the electrical activity of the brain.

Thermograms

Useful in demonstrating conditions in the body’s circulation.

Nuclear

Emitted by the nucleus of an atom.

Nuclear Technology

Used to create images of both anatomic structures and physiologic actions. It involves the introduction of a radioactive substance into the body for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Electromagnetic

Has many forms that are used in medicine to deliver high quality patient care.

X-ray

Man-made form of electromagnetic energy that is created when electrons moving at high speed are suddenly stopped. Also known as roentgen rays.

Ionization

Process by which a neutral atom gains or losses an electron, thus acquiring a net charge.

Radiography

Making of records of internal structures of the body by passage of gamma rays or x-rays through the body to act on specially sensitized film or digital imaging plate or system. Very high energy x-rays are used in radiation therapy department for the treatment of many forms of cancer.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

Discovered x-ray

November 8, 1895

Date x-ray was discovered.

Anna Bertha Ludwig

Wife of Roentgen

December 28, 1895

Roentgen submitted his first report entitled “On an New Kind of Rays”

1901

Roentgen was awarded as First Nobel Prize in Physics

February 10, 1923

Roentgen died due to colon carcinoma

Radiologic Technologist

Performs imaging of the human body for diagnosis or treatment of medical problems.

Diagnostic Radiography

Deals with examination of internal organs, bones, cavities and foreign objects; includes cardiovascular imaging and interventional radiography.

Sonography

Uses high frequency sound and is used in obstetrics (fetal monitoring throughout pregnancy), necology, abdominal, pediatrics, cardiac, vascular and musculoskeletal region imaging.

Fluoroscopy

Live motion radiography (constant radiation) usually used to visualize the digestive system, monitor the administration of contrast media to highlight vessels and organs or to help position the devices within the body (such as pacemaker, guidewires, stents and etc).

Computed Tomography (CT)

Provides cross-sectional views (slices) of the body; can also reconstruct additional images from those taken to provide more information either 2D or 3D.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Builds a 2D or 3D map of different tissue types within the body

Nuclear Medicine

Uses radioactive tracers which can be administered to examine how the body and organs function. Certain radioisotopes can also be administered to treat certain cancers.

Radiotherapy

Uses radiation to shrink and sometimes eradicate cancerous cells and growths in or out of the body.

Mammography

Uses low dose x-ray systems to produce images of the human breasts.

1948

Radiologists were formally organized as professional group.

Dr. Paterno Chikimco

First president of Philippine College of Radiologic Technology. First chairman of the Cancer Institute of PGH (Philippine General Hospital) 1971

Dr. Macaria Roque

First filipina radiologist