Providers - correct answer ✔✔health care facilities or health professionals that provide health care
services
Facilities - correct answer ✔✔are places where care is delivered or administered, including, hospitals,
long-term care facilities or nursing homes, and treatment centers.
Payers - correct answer ✔✔People or organizations paying for healthcare services.
Long-Term Care (LTC) - correct answer ✔✔care for persons who require 24-hour care and assistance.
Length of Stay - correct answer ✔✔the number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility
Terminal Illness - correct answer ✔✔an illness or injury for which there is no reasonable expectation of
recovery
Chronic - correct answer ✔✔being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
Diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon or medical
condition determined by a doctor ONLY
Assisted Living - correct answer ✔✔a residence for people who require some help with daily care, but
who need less care than a long-term care facility offers
Home Health Care - correct answer ✔✔provides nursing, therapy, personal care or housekeeping
services in the patient's own home
Adult Daycare - correct answer ✔✔care given at a facility during daytime hours; generally for people
who need some help but are not seriously ill or disabled.
, Acute Care - correct answer ✔✔Level of health care, generally provided in hospitals or emergency
departments, for sudden, serious illnesses or trauma
Skilled Care - correct answer ✔✔medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist.
Subacute Care - correct answer ✔✔care given to people who have had an acute injury or illness or
problem resulting from disease. This care given in a nursing home or a hospital and is for people who
need a higher level of care and observation than some long-term care facilities can give
Outpatient care - correct answer ✔✔care usually provided for less than 24 hours for persons who have
had treatments or surgery requiring short-term skilled care.
Rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔care given in facilities or homes by a specialist. Physical, occupational,
and speech therapists restore or improve function after an illness or injury.
Hospice Care - correct answer ✔✔treatment of the terminally ill in their own homes, or in special
hospital units or other facilities, with the goal of helping them to die comfortably, without pain
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) - correct answer ✔✔both health care delivery systems and
types of health insurance. Provide preventive health care for a fee that is usually fixed and prepaid. The
disadvantage is that you must use only HMO-affiliated providers or pay it yourself if out of network
Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) - correct answer ✔✔client chooses from a list of contracted
providers. using non-contracted providers increases the client's out of pocket costs
Managed Care - correct answer ✔✔"Cost control strategies" A system that combines the financing and
the delivery of appropriate, cost-effective health care services to its members.
Catheters - correct answer ✔✔a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or
withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open
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