HIT 110 Health Care Settings Key Word Definitions
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| Activity of Daily Living (ADL) | show 🗑
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| Acute Care Facility (ACF) | show 🗑
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| show | patients have an average LOS of 4-5 days and a total LOS of less than 25 days: aka short-term hospital classifications
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| Administration for Children and Families (ACF) | show 🗑
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| show | DHHS program that supports a nationwide aging network, providing services to the elderly to enable the to remain independent
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| show | provides care and supervision in a structured environment to seniors with physical or mental limitations
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| show | DHHS agency that supports research designed to improve the outcomes and quality of health care, reduce its costs, address patient safety and medical errors, and broaden access to effective services
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| show | DHHS agency that works with states and other federal agencies to prevent exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites
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| Alzheimer's treatment facilities | show 🗑
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| ambulatory care | show 🗑
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| show | freestanding center that dispenses and administers prescribed medications by continuous or intermittent infusion to ambulatory patients, supervised by a licensed health care professional; aka infusion center
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| ambulatory patients | show 🗑
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| show | surgery is performed on an outpatient basis at a free-standing ambulatory surgical center, patients arrive on the day of procedure, undergo surgery in an operating room and recover under the care of a nursing staff
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| show | certain procedures can be performed on an outpatient basis, with the patient treated and released the same day, if stay is longer than 23 hrs, 59 mins, 59 sec, patient must be admitted to the facility as inpatient
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| show | diagnostic and therapeutic services provided to inpatients and outpatients
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| Assisted Living Facility (ALF) | show 🗑
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| bed count | show 🗑
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| bed size | show 🗑
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| behavioral health care hospital | show 🗑
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| show | federal program that provides necessary medical, dental and mental health services to inmates by a professional staff and consistent with acceptable community standards, consists of 82 institutions, each of which provides inmate ambulatory care
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| show | provides subscribers and employees with a choice of HMO, PPO, or traditional health insurance plans; aka triple option plan
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| show | lump sum paid by the HMO to the provider to care for a group of subscribers
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| show | DHHS agency that provides a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent the outbreak of diseases
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| chemical dependency program | show 🗑
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| show | intravenous administration of chemical agents that have specific and toxic effects upon a disease-causing cell or organism
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| show | performs testing in microbiology clinical chemistry, and toxicology; directed by a pathologist; and testing is performed by certified, professional technologies and technicians
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| clinical outpatient | show 🗑
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| closed-panel HMO | show 🗑
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| Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC) | show 🗑
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| copayment | show 🗑
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| correctional facilities | show 🗑
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| crisis services | show 🗑
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| show | located more than 35 miles from any other hospital or another CAH, or they are state certified as being a necessary provider of health care to area residents
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| curative care | show 🗑
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| day treatment program | show 🗑
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| dementia care facilities | show 🗑
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| show | sometimes categorized as an intermediate care facility(ICF, these facilities provide residential care, day programming,including academic trainng, clinical & technical assistance, health care services, and diagnosis & evaluation of individuals with develo
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| show | Inpatient hospital cases classified into groups, transferred to other types of healthcare, ie. outpatient care, skilled care facilities, rehab, home health, and so on
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| show | individual physicians in the community deliver contracted health care services to subscribers
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| show | intravenous administration of other drugs including antibiotics, antivirals, and so on
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| show | includes canes, crutches, IV supplies, hospital beds, ostomy supplies, oxygen, prostheses, walkers, wheelchairs, and so on
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| emergency care center | show 🗑
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| show | one treated for urgent problems and either released the same day or admitted to the hospital as an inpatient
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| show | provides benefits to subscribers who receive health care services from network providers
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| show | provides care for the entire family and focuses on general medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics, and geriatrics
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| show | services provided to assist families in caring for a patient
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| federal certification | show 🗑
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| federal medical centers (FMCs) | show 🗑
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| flexible benefit plan | show 🗑
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| Food & Drug Administration (FDA) | show 🗑
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| general hospitals | show 🗑
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| show | participating physicians who are members of an independent multi-specialty group providing healthcare services, either contracted or owned by HMOs
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| show | managed care contract in which physicians maintain their own offices and share services to plan members
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| show | an alternative to traditional health insurance coverage; provides comprehensive health care services to members on a prepaid basis
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| show | DHHS agency provides resources for medically under served, to build health care workforce, oversees nations organ transplant system, decrease infant mortality & improve child health, services for AIDS thru Ryan While CARE act
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| show | provides ambulatory cardiovascular services to include diagnosis and treatment, disease prevention, research, education and cardiac rehab
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| home care | show 🗑
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| show | home healthcare agency when intravenous admins of medication is medically appropriate for the patients condition, and treatment is administered in the home instead of as an inpatient
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| hospice care | show 🗑
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| hospitialists | show 🗑
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| show | practices that are at least partially owned by the hospital, and physicians participate in a compensation plan provided by the hospital
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| hydration therapy | show 🗑
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| show | freestanding facility that provides radiographic and other imaging services to ambulatory patients, some centers also provide training & participate in national research projects
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| show | physicians who remain in their independent office settings but provide contracted health care services to subscribers, negotiates HMO & manages capitation payments, aka Individual Practice Association
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| Indian Health Association (IHS) | show 🗑
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| show | located in a business setting, the emphasis is on employee health and safety
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| show | freestanding center that dispenses and administers prescribed medications by continuous or intermittent infusion to ambulatory patients, supervised by a licensed health care professional; aka ambulatory infusion center
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| inpatients | show 🗑
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| Integrated Delivery System (IDS) | show 🗑
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| show | manages healthcare services provided by hospitals, physicians, and other health care organizations
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| show | specially trained individuals coordinate and/or provide mental health, financial, legal and medical services to help the patient live successfully at home and in the community
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| show | provides developmentally disabled people with medical care and supervision nursing services, occupational and physical therapies, activity programs, educational & recreational services & phycological services
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| show | specializes in the care of adults
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| show | includes a range of nursing, social, and rehabilitative services for people who need ongoing assistance, length of stay typically average greater than 30 days
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| Long-term Care Hospital (LTCH) | show 🗑
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| show | same as (LTCH)
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| show | originally referred to the prepaid healthcare sector, such as HMOs, combined healthcare deliver with financing of health care services, also referred to PPOs for some forms of indemnity coverage
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| show | provides practice management services, including administrative and support services, to individual physician practices
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| medical foundation | show 🗑
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| medical necessity | show 🗑
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| show | Administers healthcare for active members of the uniformed services & their dependents as provided by military treatment facilities & networks of civilian healthcare professionals
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| Military Medical Support Office (MMSO) | show 🗑
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| Military Treatment Facility (MTF) | show 🗑
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| multi-hospital systems | show 🗑
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| multi-specialty group physician practices | show 🗑
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| National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) | show 🗑
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| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | show 🗑
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| neighborhood health center | show 🗑
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| network model (HMO) | show 🗑
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| network providers | show 🗑
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| show | those who receive infant care upon birth, and if necessary they receive neonatal intensive care either within the hospital or as the result of transfer to another hospital
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| show | receive services on hospital premises ordered by physician, includes use of bed and periodic monitoring by nursing staff to evaluate outpatients possible need to be admitted as an inpatient
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| show | includes direct contract, individual practice association and network models, physicians are not employees of the HMO and do not belong to specially formed medical group that serves the HMO
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| pain management | show 🗑
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| pain management center | show 🗑
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| show | comfort management
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| partial hospitalization program | show 🗑
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| show | provides comprehensive services for infants, children & adolescents
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| show | provide assistance in performing daily living activities, such as bathing, dressing, grooming, going to the toilet, mealtime assistance, travel training, and accessing recreation services
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| show | managed care contracts are negotiated by hospital and physician groups; physician maintain their own practices & provide services to plan members
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| show | patients have the freedom to use an HMO panel of providers or to self-refer to non-HMO providers
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| show | form of utilization management that involves the review for medical necessity of inpatient care prior to inpatient admission
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| show | network of physicians and hospitals join together to contract with third-party payers, employers and other organizations to provide healthcare to subscribers for a discounted fee
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| show | offers adult and family care medicine in internal medicine, pediatrics, and family practices
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| Public Health Services (PHS) | show 🗑
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| public health department | show 🗑
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| show | hospital ambulatory care patient who receives diagnostic or therapeutic care because care is unavailable in the primary care providers office, follow up is done in the primary care providers office
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| show | admits patients who are diagnosed with trauma or disease and who need to learn how to function
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| residential care facility (RCF) | show 🗑
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| residential treatment facility | show 🗑
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| respite care | show 🗑
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| satellite clinics | show 🗑
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| short term (acute) hospital classification | show 🗑
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| show | category of hospitals that are self-contained and not part of a larger organization
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| single specialty group physician practices | show 🗑
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| skilled care | show 🗑
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| Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) | show 🗑
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| solo physician practice | show 🗑
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| show | concentrates on a particular population of patients or diseases
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| show | similar to large multispecialty group practices, may be partially owned by physician employees, with physicians functioning as employees of physician group owning the practice or the insurer
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| show | provides healthcare to full-and part-time students who become ill or injured
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| show | provided in hospitals that provide specialized long-term acute care such as chemotherapy, injury rehab, ventilator support, wound care, and other types of healthcare services provided to seriously ill patients
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| show | DHHS agency that works t improve the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services
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| show | allows a rural hospital to admit a nonacute care patient
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| show | state federal welfare program
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| show | 6 to 10 individuals are provided with supervised housing that may be linked with a day treatment program
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| show | administration of nutritional substances by peripheral or central intravenous infusion to patients who are either already malnourished or have the potential for developing malnutrition
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| triple option plan | show 🗑
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| show | immediate are is provided by an on duty physician (usually salaried), the center is usually owned by private corporations in states where permitted or non-profit facilities
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| utilization manager | show 🗑
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| show | breathing machine
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| show | An agency in the Department of Veterans Affairs that provides medical, surgical, and rehab care to veterans of the armed services
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| show | Administers and provides healthcare services at VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) and community-based outpatient clinics
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