C425 WGU (questions and answers)complete

Outpatient care - health services that don't require an overnight stay Private Practice - Limited examination and testing Self-employment = more independence, short duration, Hospital outpatient clinics - Function as the community's safety net, providing primary care to the medically indigent and uninsured populations walk in clinics - range from basic primary care to urgent care, they are convenient retail clinics - can be found in walmart or cvs urgent care centers - offer a wide range of services for basic and acute conditions surgicenters - surgery centers that operate independently of hospitals, they usually provide a full range of services for surgeries that can be performed on a outpatient basis, dont require overnight hospitalization mobile facilities for medical, diagnostic and screening services - health care services that are transported directly to patients and constitute an efficient and convenient means for providing certain health services, EX: health screening vans telephone or internet triage - brings expert opinion and advice of health care to a patient, especially when physicians offices are closed home care - health care brought to patients in their homes Hospice Care - terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of 6 months or lessoutpatient long-term care services - nursing homes, case management, adult day care