Ans✓✓✓ 22.9%
; Ans✓✓✓
Adult day services centers Ans✓✓✓ Safe professional care settings for adults
who need supervision outside the home during the day. They give caregivers a
break
AHA Ans✓✓✓ American Hospital Association
Ambulatory settings Ans✓✓✓ Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), medical group
practices, community health centers (CHCs), dialysis centers, urgent care centers,
retail clinics, imaging centers, sleep centers, catheterization labs, vascular access
centers, and telemedicine, workplace * school clinics
BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Ans✓✓✓ U.S. Department of Labor is the
principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working
conditions, and price changes in the economy
HMO Ans✓✓✓ health maintenance organization
Home health agencies Ans✓✓✓ Provided to individuals and families in their
place of residence to promote, maintain, or restore health or to maximize the
level of independence while minimizing the effects of disability and illness. In
2016, there were 12,200 home health agencies
, Hospice Ans✓✓✓ A program of palliative and supportive care services that
provides physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for dying persons, their
families, and other loved ones. Available at home & inpatient settings
Hospital EDs functions Ans✓✓✓ a) to take care of acutely ill or injured ppl,
particularly with life-threatening or potentially life threatening problems that
required immediate attention by personnel or equipment not found in private
practitioners offices
b) offer prompt hospitalization if needed
c) serves as a secondary well equipped private physician's office
d) provision of care to persons who are neither injured nor critically ill
How many prescriptions were filled at community pharmacies in 2015? Ans✓✓✓
4 billion, or 12.7%
How many visits were made to OPDs in 2011? Ans✓✓✓ 125,721 million
How many visits were there to the ED in 2016? Ans✓✓✓ 145,591
How much of the entire US workforce is comprised of women? Ans✓✓✓ 46.9%
How much ownership do hospitals have on ASCs? Ans✓✓✓ interest 23%, 2% are
owned entirely by hospitals
In 2016 how much of US spending was spent on retail drug prescriptions?
Ans✓✓✓ $329 million, 13% of health care spending