HCM 330 MODULE 2 KEY TERMS UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Academic Health Center
Answer:
An allopathic or osteopathic medical school, one or more health professions schools (e.g., allied health,
dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary medicine), and one or more owned or affiliated
teaching hospitals or health systems.
Question:
2. Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
Answer:
An entity—usually a hospital or a physician group—that accepts responsibility for the medical care of a
population of people. An insurer or government payer develops some form of financial incentives to
motivate the ACO to ensure that health care cost patterns for the covered group are better than the patterns
for comparable people not in the group. First initiated by the Medicare program, various versions of the
ACO idea are being tried by a range of payers.
Question:
3. Accreditation
Answer:
A decision made by a recognized organization that an institution substantially meets appropriate standards
Question:
4. Ambulatory Care
Answer:
Health care services that patients receive when they are not an inpatient or home in bed.
Question:
5. Average Length of Stay
Answer:
The average number of days a patient admitted to a hospital stays there as a patient.
Question:
6. Centers of Care
Answer:
Facilities that provide outpatient rehabilitative services for patients with a particular, specific illness, such
as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, or stroke.
Question:
7. Certification
Answer:
Issued from the federal government for a hospital to receive reimbursement for services proved to
Medicare and Medicaid patients.
, Question:
8. Chronic Care
Answer:
Treatment or rehabilitative health services provided to individuals on a long-term basis (more than 30
days), in both inpatient and ambulatory settings
Question:
9. Community Health Improvement
Answer:
Focuses on collaboration among a wide array of organizations (e.g., public health departments, health care
delivery organizations, social service agencies, government entities, etc.) to address issues impacting the
health of a particular community.
Question:
10. Continuing care retirement community
Answer:
Provides a full range of long-term care facilities and services—an assisted living facility and a skilled
nursing facility.
Question:
11. continuity of care
Answer:
Includes continuity of information (e.g., shared medical records), continuity across primary and secondary
care (e.g., discharge planning from specialist to generalist care), and provider continuity (e.g., seeing the
same provider each time).
Question:
12. Continuum of Care (CoC)
Answer:
Encompasses care from the cradle to the grave and includes services focused on both the prevention and
the treatment of medical conditions and diseases as well as end-of-life care.
Question:
13. Corporate practice of medicine (CPOM)
Answer:
Physician practices that are owned by business corporations or entities, rather than those owned by one
practitioner or a partnership of practitioners.
Question:
14. Emergency care
Answer:
Designed to provide immediate care for sudden, serious illness or injury.
Question:
15. End-of-life care
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Academic Health Center
Answer:
An allopathic or osteopathic medical school, one or more health professions schools (e.g., allied health,
dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary medicine), and one or more owned or affiliated
teaching hospitals or health systems.
Question:
2. Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
Answer:
An entity—usually a hospital or a physician group—that accepts responsibility for the medical care of a
population of people. An insurer or government payer develops some form of financial incentives to
motivate the ACO to ensure that health care cost patterns for the covered group are better than the patterns
for comparable people not in the group. First initiated by the Medicare program, various versions of the
ACO idea are being tried by a range of payers.
Question:
3. Accreditation
Answer:
A decision made by a recognized organization that an institution substantially meets appropriate standards
Question:
4. Ambulatory Care
Answer:
Health care services that patients receive when they are not an inpatient or home in bed.
Question:
5. Average Length of Stay
Answer:
The average number of days a patient admitted to a hospital stays there as a patient.
Question:
6. Centers of Care
Answer:
Facilities that provide outpatient rehabilitative services for patients with a particular, specific illness, such
as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, or stroke.
Question:
7. Certification
Answer:
Issued from the federal government for a hospital to receive reimbursement for services proved to
Medicare and Medicaid patients.
, Question:
8. Chronic Care
Answer:
Treatment or rehabilitative health services provided to individuals on a long-term basis (more than 30
days), in both inpatient and ambulatory settings
Question:
9. Community Health Improvement
Answer:
Focuses on collaboration among a wide array of organizations (e.g., public health departments, health care
delivery organizations, social service agencies, government entities, etc.) to address issues impacting the
health of a particular community.
Question:
10. Continuing care retirement community
Answer:
Provides a full range of long-term care facilities and services—an assisted living facility and a skilled
nursing facility.
Question:
11. continuity of care
Answer:
Includes continuity of information (e.g., shared medical records), continuity across primary and secondary
care (e.g., discharge planning from specialist to generalist care), and provider continuity (e.g., seeing the
same provider each time).
Question:
12. Continuum of Care (CoC)
Answer:
Encompasses care from the cradle to the grave and includes services focused on both the prevention and
the treatment of medical conditions and diseases as well as end-of-life care.
Question:
13. Corporate practice of medicine (CPOM)
Answer:
Physician practices that are owned by business corporations or entities, rather than those owned by one
practitioner or a partnership of practitioners.
Question:
14. Emergency care
Answer:
Designed to provide immediate care for sudden, serious illness or injury.
Question:
15. End-of-life care
