Unit 2- Health services

One of the major types of health care facilities

• factories

• hospitals

• offices

treat a wide range of conditions and age groups; usually provide diagnostic, medical, surgical, and emergency care services

• specialty hospitals

• general hospitals

• government hospitals

provide care for special conditions or age groups; examples include burn hospitals, oncology hospitals, pediatric hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, orthopedic hospitals, and rehabilitative hospitals

• specialty hospitals

• general hospitals

• government hospitals

operated by federal, state, and local government agencies; examples are Veterans Administration hospitals, state psychiatric hospitals, and state rehabilitation centers

• general hospitals

• specialty hospitals

• government hospitals

provide hospital services as well as research and education; can be funded by private and/or government sources

• general hospitals

• university/college medical centers

• government hospitals

mainly provide assistance and care for elderly patients, usually called residents

• extended care facilities

• Long-term care facilities (LTCs or LTCFs)

• residential care facilities

designed to provide basic physical and emotional care for individuals who can no longer care for themselves (nursing homes or geriatric homes)

• independent living facilities

• extended care facilities

• residential care facilities

designed to provide skilled nursing care and rehabilitative care to prepare patients or residents for return to home environments or other long-term care facilities

• independent living facilities

• residential care facilities

• extended care facilities/skilled care facilities

allow individuals who can care for themselves to rent or purchase an apartment in the facility; provide services such as meals, housekeeping, laundry, transportation, social events, and basic medical care

• residential care facilities

• independent living facilities

• extended care facilities

vary from offices that are privately owned by one physician to large complexes that operated as corporations and employ many physicians and other healthcare professionals; include diagnosis, treatment, examination, etc.

• dental offices

• medical offices

• concierge medicine