General Facility Structure

Question 1

The records and master files that define

Answer 1

Facility structure

Question 2

What structure does this represent?
Facility
Service Area
Location
Department
Room
Bed

Answer 2

Hospital Facility Structure

Question 3

What structure does this represent
Facility
Service Area
Location
Department

Answer 3

Clinic Facility Structure

Question 4

What represents the entire enterprise or organization and ensures all users share a common vocabulary across the system

Answer 4

Facility

Question 5

Admit and locate patients
Determines hospital’s census
Most specific

Answer 5

Beds

Question 6

Contains 1 or more beds
Locate pts in a building,
Help Physician round efficiently,
Print labels near the patient

Answer 6

Rooms

Question 7

Represents a place where users do their work and patients receive care
Place to schedule or admit patients
Example: pharmacist logs into pharmacy dept

Answer 7

Department records

Question 8

What are the 4 types of Departments?

Answer 8

Hospital Unit
Outpatient
Hospital outpatient HOD)
Virtual

Question 9

Revenue Location represents an area where people work or receive care

Answer 9

Location

Question 10

An area that admits patients to a room and bed.

Answer 10

Hospital Unit

Question 11

Areas where patients are scheduled to see providers for a brief visit and DO NOT contain rooms or beds

Answer 11

Outpatient departments

Question 12

Areas where both admitted and scheduled patients are seen and then return home or back to the unit admitted to. Example Radiology

Answer 12

Hospital Outpatient Depts (HOD)

Question 13

Exist only as a login department
Used by Clinicians to provide care to admitted pts all over the hospital
Areas not used for patient care but can login and access tools Bus Office
Pt care areas where patients are not scheduled or admitted. Pharmacy

Answer 13

Virtual Depts

Question 14

Represents the business entities of the organization.
Track revenue and accounts receivable
Can represent a Geographical location, affiliate, or entire organization

Answer 14

Service Area

Question 15

Entire enterprise or organization
For each enterprise or organization there is always only one facility level record
Ensures all users share a common vocabulary
Most general level

Answer 15

Facility (not a specific building)

Question 16

Computers, printers, and fax machines need these records (for each one)
Can link to various levels of the hierarchy.

Answer 16

Workstation

Question 17

Optional, not used by every organization
Groups hospital units for census reporting
Hospital wings and floors are created as these records

Answer 17

Hospital Area

Question 18

(Optional) - not used by every org
groups multiple revenue locations for billing purposes
allows revenue to be tracked in Hospital Billing from a single location
Represents places outside your organization
Used to track where patients are sent and where providers are working

Answer 18

Patient Revenue Location

Question 19

(Optional) - Represents locations outside of your organization that are not using EPIC.
Allows you to track patients and providers at these locations.

Answer 19

Place of Service