Healthcare Systems

Treat a wide range of conditions and age groups. Provide diagnostic, medical, surgical and emergency care services.

• Specialty hospitals
• General hospitals
• Long term care facilities
• Hospice

Mainly provide assistance and care for elderly patients, usually called residents. 

• Mental health facilities
• National Institute of Health
• Health Department
• Long term care facilities

Long term care facilities generally serve

• pediatric patients

• geriatric/elderly patients

• middle age patients

If a person goes to the hospital to receive a blood transfusion, but returns home in 6 hours, it is called _______ care.

• hospice

• acute

• subacute

• Outpatient

After a stroke, a resident requires several hours of physical, occupational, and speech therapy per day. The resident will be admitted to a facility for :

• outpatient care

• acute care

• rehabilitation

• hospice care

Which of these healthcare delivery systems is created for a purpose other than making a profit?

• non-profit

• for-profit

• government

• hospitals

Mrs. Lyon is 90 years old. She is a very active woman who likes to cook, read, play cards and take short walks with her walker. The long term care facility that would be best suited to meet her needs is a/an:

• nursing home

• skilled nursing facility

• assisted living center

• Alzheimer's unit

Arnold needs to have his children vaccinated before school starts but is unable to pay for doctor's visits or insurance. Where can he find these services at low/no cost?

• Home Health Care
• Assisted Living
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Health Department

This type of organization is divided into departments that serve a variety of needs, like emergency care, surgical care, labor and delivery, etc. What is it?

• Health Department
• Urgent Care
• Hospital
• Hospice

You begin feeling sick to your stomach Friday after work. Your doctor closed at noon. What facility would be your least expensive option for care?

• Hospice
• Hospital
• Industrial Health Center
• Urgent Care