Healthcare Delivery Systems Flashcards

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Offers a wide range of services, including diagnosis treatment education, and research may be private or for-profit, nonprofit government, general specialized government, or university

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Hospital

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Organization or company, and which profits are distributed to shareholders or private owners

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For profit

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An organization that is set up to help those in need, but not to make a profit from the business

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Nonprofit

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Specific conditions, age, groups, or other ways of coping patients, examples of hospitals, pediatric hospitals, psychiatric hospitals

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Specialty hospitals

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Outpatient services, examples, urgent care, clinics, genetic counseling centers

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Ambulatory facilities

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Mimi care for elderly patient in nursing homes are assisted living facility. They also care for individuals with disabilities.

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Long-term care facilities

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Nurse or other skills, professional patient in her home to provide treatment education

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Home health care

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Very from small to large complexes with multiple specialties and other healthcare professionals

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Medical and dental offices

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Counseling centers, psychiatric clinics, and hospitals, chemical abuse, treatment centers, and physical abuse, treatment centers

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Mental health services

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10
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Can be at local state, national and international level

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Government agencies

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Concerned with the cause, spread and control of disease, and other health and safety issues in populations. U.S Department of Health and human services

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Centers for disease, control, and prevention

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Federal agency that is responsible for regulating food and drug products sold to the public

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Food and drug administration 

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International agency that complies disease, statistics, promotes healthy, living and investigates, serious health problems throughout the world sponsored by the United Nations

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World health organization

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Establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from shoppers did injuries and illnesses, part of the US Department of labor

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Occupational safety and health administration

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Provide services to states and local communities such as immunizations collection of health, statistics, health, education, and clinic for healthcare and prevention

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Public health department 

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Care for veterans who served in the Armed Forces federally supported

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Veterans administration

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Also called voluntary agencies most deal with specific diseases or groups of diseases provide funding for research. Promote education and services of victims of disease. influence laws create standards, and educate health professionals examples, American heart association, march of dimes. 

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Nonprofit agencies

18
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Provide palliative care to dying patients and their families. Emphasis is to make patient life days as pain-free and meaningful as possible.

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Hospice

19
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Tests and service over his my physician seeking to avoid lawsuits

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Financial factors influencing system