HSC 110 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Ambulatory Care - Answer -Consists of diagnostic and therapeutic services and
treatments provided to the walking (ambulatory) patient
Outpatient service - Answer -refers to any health care services that do not require an
overnight stay in an institution of health care delivery
Urgent care centers - Answer -Generally offer a wide range of routine services for basic
and acute conditions
surgicenters - Answer -freestanding outpatient surgery centers that operate
independently of hospitals
Home health care - Answer -services are brought to patients in their own homes
Hospice - Answer -refers to a cluster of comprehensive services for terminally ill
patients who have the life expectancy of 6 months or less.
Case Mangement - Answer -provides coordination and referral among a variety of
health care services; the objective is to find the most appropriate setting in which meets
a patients care needs
Adult day care - Answer -informal care provided at home by family members with
professional services available in adult day care centers during the day.
CHC - Answer -Community Health Center
Community Health center - Answer -provides family oriented preventative care, primary
care, and dental care and serve as a primary care safety net
Complementary and Alternative medicine - Answer -Refers to the broad domain of all
health care resources, other than those intrinsic to biomedicine.
Secondary care - Answer -is usually short term in nature, involving sporadic
consolation from a specialist to provide expert opinions and/or surgical or other
advanced interventions that primary care physicians are not equipped to perform.
tertiary care - Answer -is the most complex level of care and is required for conditions
that are relatively uncommon.
WHO definition of Primary Care - Answer -is essential health care that is based on
practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods in technology
, GateKeeping - Answer -implies that patients do not visit specialists and are not
admitted to a hospital without being referred for such care by their primary physicians.
integrated care - Answer -Embodies the concepts of comprehensive, coordinated, and
continuous services that provide a seamless process of care.
community oriented primary care - Answer -incorporates the elements of good primary
care delivery and adds a population based approach to identifying and addressing
community health problems.
AHA - Answer -American Hospital Association
AHA definition of a Hospital - Answer -licensed institution whose primary function is to
provide diagnostic and therapeutic patient services for medical conditions. Must have:
License
+6 beds
Organized MD staff
Continuous nursing services
Medical Center - Answer -used by some hospitals, reflecting their high level of
specialization and wide scope of services
Medical systems - Answer -Large organizations that may include more than one
hospital to serve a large geographic area.
Discharges - Answer -refers to the total number of patients released form a hospital's
acute care beds during a given period, including those who die in the hospital.
Inpatient day - Answer -is a night spent in the hospital by a patient
occupancy rate - Answer -is the percentage of capacity used during a given time period
community hospital - Answer -is a nonfederal, short- stay hospital whose services are
available to the general public , excludes federal hospitals
Public hospitals - Answer -are hospitals owned by agencies of federal, state, or local
governments
general hospitals - Answer -provides diagnostic, treatment and surgical services for
patients with a variety of acute medical conditions
teaching hospital - Answer -a hospital must offer one or more graduate residency
programs approved b the American medial association
academic medical center - Answer -applies to an organization in which there is active
collaboration among the university
Ambulatory Care - Answer -Consists of diagnostic and therapeutic services and
treatments provided to the walking (ambulatory) patient
Outpatient service - Answer -refers to any health care services that do not require an
overnight stay in an institution of health care delivery
Urgent care centers - Answer -Generally offer a wide range of routine services for basic
and acute conditions
surgicenters - Answer -freestanding outpatient surgery centers that operate
independently of hospitals
Home health care - Answer -services are brought to patients in their own homes
Hospice - Answer -refers to a cluster of comprehensive services for terminally ill
patients who have the life expectancy of 6 months or less.
Case Mangement - Answer -provides coordination and referral among a variety of
health care services; the objective is to find the most appropriate setting in which meets
a patients care needs
Adult day care - Answer -informal care provided at home by family members with
professional services available in adult day care centers during the day.
CHC - Answer -Community Health Center
Community Health center - Answer -provides family oriented preventative care, primary
care, and dental care and serve as a primary care safety net
Complementary and Alternative medicine - Answer -Refers to the broad domain of all
health care resources, other than those intrinsic to biomedicine.
Secondary care - Answer -is usually short term in nature, involving sporadic
consolation from a specialist to provide expert opinions and/or surgical or other
advanced interventions that primary care physicians are not equipped to perform.
tertiary care - Answer -is the most complex level of care and is required for conditions
that are relatively uncommon.
WHO definition of Primary Care - Answer -is essential health care that is based on
practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods in technology
, GateKeeping - Answer -implies that patients do not visit specialists and are not
admitted to a hospital without being referred for such care by their primary physicians.
integrated care - Answer -Embodies the concepts of comprehensive, coordinated, and
continuous services that provide a seamless process of care.
community oriented primary care - Answer -incorporates the elements of good primary
care delivery and adds a population based approach to identifying and addressing
community health problems.
AHA - Answer -American Hospital Association
AHA definition of a Hospital - Answer -licensed institution whose primary function is to
provide diagnostic and therapeutic patient services for medical conditions. Must have:
License
+6 beds
Organized MD staff
Continuous nursing services
Medical Center - Answer -used by some hospitals, reflecting their high level of
specialization and wide scope of services
Medical systems - Answer -Large organizations that may include more than one
hospital to serve a large geographic area.
Discharges - Answer -refers to the total number of patients released form a hospital's
acute care beds during a given period, including those who die in the hospital.
Inpatient day - Answer -is a night spent in the hospital by a patient
occupancy rate - Answer -is the percentage of capacity used during a given time period
community hospital - Answer -is a nonfederal, short- stay hospital whose services are
available to the general public , excludes federal hospitals
Public hospitals - Answer -are hospitals owned by agencies of federal, state, or local
governments
general hospitals - Answer -provides diagnostic, treatment and surgical services for
patients with a variety of acute medical conditions
teaching hospital - Answer -a hospital must offer one or more graduate residency
programs approved b the American medial association
academic medical center - Answer -applies to an organization in which there is active
collaboration among the university
