Question | Answer |
Admitting (Patient Registration) | Registers emergency patients, inpatients and outpatients |
Nursing | Provide 24-hour patient care to inpatients, outpatients and emergency deperatment patients |
Medical Staff | Serves as liasion between the medical staff members and adminstration. Verifies physician credentials. Coordinates continuing medical education programs. |
Human Resources | Conducts an orientation program to acclimate new employees to their work environment. Manages the employee benefit program, (e.g. vacation time, health insurance,etc.) |
Hospice Care | Provides services to patients and families using an interdisciplinary team approcah that includes the attending physician,nurses,social service counslers, home health aides, volunteers, etc. |
Health Information Management Services(Medical Records) | Maintains complete inpatient, outpatient surgery, & emergency records in a confidental manner. Releases information only with patient's written authorization or with a court order. |
Emergency Room | Provides crisis care 24 hours per day after triage(organized method of identifying and treating patients according to urgency of care requried) |
Bussiness Office | Accounting ,Accounts Payable, Patient Accounts, Payroll |
Clincical Laboratory | Conducts diagnostic tests ordered by physicians on samples of body fluids, body tissues, and body wastes. Information obtained from tests helps physicians diagnose illness, monitor treatment and check gerneral health |
Patient Education | Helps patients make informed desicions to better manage health care needs |
Patient Advocacy | Serves as a representative for patients who express commendation or concern about the hospital to uphold care, ethics, moral, and operational standards |
Pharmacy | Supplies all medications administered to patients during hospitalizations. Pharmacists review physicain medication orders, maintain and review individual patient medication profiles and provide drug information to health care team members |
Physical Therapy | Uses physical agents of exercise, massage, and other modalities |
Preadmission Testing(PAT) | Phlebotmists draw blood samples for preoperative testing. Patients visit PAT prior to elective admission(in/outpatient surgery) to register w/ Admitting, undergo preoperative nursing asseessment & recieve preanesthesia evalution by an anesthesiologist. |
Social Services | Assists patients and families in locating resourcs that are specfic to their health care needs |
Safety Management | Manages activities to reduce th erisk of injuries. Provide patients, personnel & visitors w/ a physcial environment free of recognized hazards |
Risk Management | Promotes delivery of quality health care & safety. Identifies & controls hazards & injuries & protects the facility resources |
Radiology | Provides image-guided procedures for inpatients & outpatients, including-Computerized tomography,Mammography,Magnetic resonance imaging, Ultrasonography,Radiography,Positron emission tomography(PET),Nuclear medicine |
Purchasing | Procures equipment, products & services. Rents & leases equipment. Issues documents, (e.g. purchase orders), that commit facility funds for future purchase of products & services |
Speech and Language Pathology(S.L.A.P) | Evalutes,diagnoses,plans,& provides therapy to patients w/ speech,language & swallowing diffculites. Utilzes speech technologies to improve communication skills |
Telemedicine | Connects practitoners & patients through on-line consulation w/ specialists, live & interactive clincial & educational programs, & custom or Interent-based video streaming |
Utilization Management | Reviews &/or recommends admission for all levels of care. Works w/ case managers from insurance compaines to determine whether an transfers to lower levels of care |