EDAC EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔General acute - care hospitals (classification by service) - ✔✔provide a variety of
services, including general and specialized medicine, general and specialized surgery
and obstetrics, to meet the general medical needs of the community. Provide
diagnostic, treatment and surgical services for patients with a variety of medical
conditions.
✔✔Specialty hospitals (classification by service) - ✔✔admit only certain types and ages
of patients or those with specified illnesses and conditions. example: children's,
psychiatric, rehab.
✔✔Community hospitals (classification by public access) - ✔✔nonfederal, short-term
general and other special hospitals whose facilities and services are available to the
general public. Academic medical centers or teaching hospitals. not included - prison
hospitals, college infirmaries.
✔✔Noncommunity hospitals (classification by public access) - ✔✔include hospitals
operated by the federal government such as a veterans hospital, prison, college
infirmaries and long-term care hospitals.
✔✔Urban Hospital (classification by location) - ✔✔located in a county that is part of a
metropolitan statistical area, includes one city with the population of 50,000 or more
✔✔Rural Hospital (classification by location) - ✔✔located in a county that is not part of
an MSA (metropolitan statistical area)
✔✔What are the Hospital classifications by size? - ✔✔small: hospitals with fewer than
100 beds
Medium: hospitals with 100 to under 500 beds
Large: hospitals with 500 or more beds.
,✔✔Critical access-hospitals - ✔✔located in health-professional shortage areas and/or
medically underserved areas. Provides 24-hour emergency care services 7 days per
week, and not have more than 15 acute-care inpatient beds. They may have up to 10
swing beds that can be used interchangeably for acute or skilled nursing care, provided
that not more than 15 beds are used at any one time for acute care.
✔✔Doctor-owned specialty hospitals - ✔✔the affordable care act essentially banned the
construction or expansion of hospitals owned by physicians, except in unusual
circumstances, such as those that are considered a high Medicaid facility.
✔✔Healthcare system - ✔✔has either a multihospital or a diversified single hospital
system. Two or more hospitals owned, leased, sponsored, or contract managed by a
central organization.
✔✔The various settings in which outpatient service delivery are found in the US
HealthCare delivery system can be grouped as: - ✔✔private practice
long-term care
hospital-based outpatient services
public health services
freestanding facilities
public and voluntary clinics
complementary and alternative medicine
mobile medical
telephone access
diagnostic and screening
telemedicine
wellness centers
home health services
hospice service.
✔✔Hospital Based outpatient services are: - ✔✔Clinical services - correspond to
services provided by physicians in their offices.
Surgical services
Emergency services
Home Healthcare
women's health services
✔✔Freestanding facilities - ✔✔walk-in clinics
urgent care centers and emergincenters
surgicenters - ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)
✔✔Who are the key stakeholders? - ✔✔board of trustees and leadership
researchers
vendors and suppliers
caregivers, family, and victors
, staff (physicians, nurses, housekeeping, ancillary services, etc.)
community partners
community organizations
donors
✔✔CEO Function - ✔✔is a key decision-maker who aids the board in creating a future
vision of the organization, which may included a building project. The CEO interacts
with the board.
✔✔Who is accountable for all services and behaviors of the organization? - ✔✔The
CEO. In fact, the CEO is responsible for everything but the board and its functions.
✔✔Who makes recommendations to the board in the case of healthcare construction? -
✔✔The CEO based upon detailed information and analysis from senior staff. The board
will approve or disapprove based on the CEO's recommendation.
✔✔Vendors - what can they contribute? - ✔✔Knowledgeable vendors can share
considerable product and trend information as well as research and future product
development plans, eliminating the issue of potentially selecting outdated products.
✔✔Components that define the EOC - ✔✔delivery of care model (concepts)
facility and service users (people)
systems design
layout and operations planning
physical environment
design process and implementation
✔✔Organizational culture in healthcare ahs evolved into several identifiable models,
including examples such as: - ✔✔cultures of safety
faith-based cultures of caring
patient and family centered cultures
physician centered cultures
profit minded corporate cultures
bureaucratic and hierarchical cultures
academic and research cultures
✔✔Predesign and design - ✔✔finding and using research is important during predesign
and design. After the vision, goals and objectives for the project have been developed,
a review of the literature to find relevant research can help the team develop design
concepts and evaluate existing design options and spark design innovations.
Develop hypothesis
Obtain and translate evidence into design decisions
use small-scale or pilot research project to test effectiveness of a product or design.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔General acute - care hospitals (classification by service) - ✔✔provide a variety of
services, including general and specialized medicine, general and specialized surgery
and obstetrics, to meet the general medical needs of the community. Provide
diagnostic, treatment and surgical services for patients with a variety of medical
conditions.
✔✔Specialty hospitals (classification by service) - ✔✔admit only certain types and ages
of patients or those with specified illnesses and conditions. example: children's,
psychiatric, rehab.
✔✔Community hospitals (classification by public access) - ✔✔nonfederal, short-term
general and other special hospitals whose facilities and services are available to the
general public. Academic medical centers or teaching hospitals. not included - prison
hospitals, college infirmaries.
✔✔Noncommunity hospitals (classification by public access) - ✔✔include hospitals
operated by the federal government such as a veterans hospital, prison, college
infirmaries and long-term care hospitals.
✔✔Urban Hospital (classification by location) - ✔✔located in a county that is part of a
metropolitan statistical area, includes one city with the population of 50,000 or more
✔✔Rural Hospital (classification by location) - ✔✔located in a county that is not part of
an MSA (metropolitan statistical area)
✔✔What are the Hospital classifications by size? - ✔✔small: hospitals with fewer than
100 beds
Medium: hospitals with 100 to under 500 beds
Large: hospitals with 500 or more beds.
,✔✔Critical access-hospitals - ✔✔located in health-professional shortage areas and/or
medically underserved areas. Provides 24-hour emergency care services 7 days per
week, and not have more than 15 acute-care inpatient beds. They may have up to 10
swing beds that can be used interchangeably for acute or skilled nursing care, provided
that not more than 15 beds are used at any one time for acute care.
✔✔Doctor-owned specialty hospitals - ✔✔the affordable care act essentially banned the
construction or expansion of hospitals owned by physicians, except in unusual
circumstances, such as those that are considered a high Medicaid facility.
✔✔Healthcare system - ✔✔has either a multihospital or a diversified single hospital
system. Two or more hospitals owned, leased, sponsored, or contract managed by a
central organization.
✔✔The various settings in which outpatient service delivery are found in the US
HealthCare delivery system can be grouped as: - ✔✔private practice
long-term care
hospital-based outpatient services
public health services
freestanding facilities
public and voluntary clinics
complementary and alternative medicine
mobile medical
telephone access
diagnostic and screening
telemedicine
wellness centers
home health services
hospice service.
✔✔Hospital Based outpatient services are: - ✔✔Clinical services - correspond to
services provided by physicians in their offices.
Surgical services
Emergency services
Home Healthcare
women's health services
✔✔Freestanding facilities - ✔✔walk-in clinics
urgent care centers and emergincenters
surgicenters - ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)
✔✔Who are the key stakeholders? - ✔✔board of trustees and leadership
researchers
vendors and suppliers
caregivers, family, and victors
, staff (physicians, nurses, housekeeping, ancillary services, etc.)
community partners
community organizations
donors
✔✔CEO Function - ✔✔is a key decision-maker who aids the board in creating a future
vision of the organization, which may included a building project. The CEO interacts
with the board.
✔✔Who is accountable for all services and behaviors of the organization? - ✔✔The
CEO. In fact, the CEO is responsible for everything but the board and its functions.
✔✔Who makes recommendations to the board in the case of healthcare construction? -
✔✔The CEO based upon detailed information and analysis from senior staff. The board
will approve or disapprove based on the CEO's recommendation.
✔✔Vendors - what can they contribute? - ✔✔Knowledgeable vendors can share
considerable product and trend information as well as research and future product
development plans, eliminating the issue of potentially selecting outdated products.
✔✔Components that define the EOC - ✔✔delivery of care model (concepts)
facility and service users (people)
systems design
layout and operations planning
physical environment
design process and implementation
✔✔Organizational culture in healthcare ahs evolved into several identifiable models,
including examples such as: - ✔✔cultures of safety
faith-based cultures of caring
patient and family centered cultures
physician centered cultures
profit minded corporate cultures
bureaucratic and hierarchical cultures
academic and research cultures
✔✔Predesign and design - ✔✔finding and using research is important during predesign
and design. After the vision, goals and objectives for the project have been developed,
a review of the literature to find relevant research can help the team develop design
concepts and evaluate existing design options and spark design innovations.
Develop hypothesis
Obtain and translate evidence into design decisions
use small-scale or pilot research project to test effectiveness of a product or design.
