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U.S. Health Care Systems Final
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
What was the first major stage of the hospital evolution?
Answer:
Almshouses
When did hospitals begin to attract well-to-do patients who
could afford to pay privately?
Answer:
When hospitals offered superior medical services and
surgical procedures that could not be offered at home.
Who opened the first proprietary hospitals?
Answer:
Physicians
What contributed to the growth of hospitals from 1930-1980?
Answer:
Hill-Burton Act, Health Insurance, Technological
advances
What were the main factors in the growth of hospitals in the
United States?
Answer:
Hill- Burton Act, private insurance, Medicare and
Medicaid
What is credited with having the greatest impact on the
expansion of hospital beds in the U.S.?
Answer:
Hill-Burton
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What triggered the downsizing phase in the U.S. hospital
industry during the 1980's?
Answer:
Prospective Payment System
DRG-based reimbursement necessitated hospitals to do what?
Answer:
Discharge patients quicker than before
What are 'days of care'?
Answer:
The total number of patient days
T or F: 19th century almshouses provided mainly rehabilitation
services
Answer:
False
T or F: PPS and managed care had the desired effect of
reducing the growth in hospital expenditures.
Answer:
True
T or F: Women are admitted to hospitals more often than men
even after adjusting for childbearing
Answer:
True
T or F: Federal hospitals are classified as public hospitals, but
they are not community hospitals because they do not serve
the general public.
Answer:
True
U.S. Health Care Systems Final
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
What was the first major stage of the hospital evolution?
Answer:
Almshouses
When did hospitals begin to attract well-to-do patients who
could afford to pay privately?
Answer:
When hospitals offered superior medical services and
surgical procedures that could not be offered at home.
Who opened the first proprietary hospitals?
Answer:
Physicians
What contributed to the growth of hospitals from 1930-1980?
Answer:
Hill-Burton Act, Health Insurance, Technological
advances
What were the main factors in the growth of hospitals in the
United States?
Answer:
Hill- Burton Act, private insurance, Medicare and
Medicaid
What is credited with having the greatest impact on the
expansion of hospital beds in the U.S.?
Answer:
Hill-Burton
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What triggered the downsizing phase in the U.S. hospital
industry during the 1980's?
Answer:
Prospective Payment System
DRG-based reimbursement necessitated hospitals to do what?
Answer:
Discharge patients quicker than before
What are 'days of care'?
Answer:
The total number of patient days
T or F: 19th century almshouses provided mainly rehabilitation
services
Answer:
False
T or F: PPS and managed care had the desired effect of
reducing the growth in hospital expenditures.
Answer:
True
T or F: Women are admitted to hospitals more often than men
even after adjusting for childbearing
Answer:
True
T or F: Federal hospitals are classified as public hospitals, but
they are not community hospitals because they do not serve
the general public.
Answer:
True
