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

Provide care for special conditions or age groups. Ex. burn hospitals and psychiatric hospitals

• General hospitals
• Health Maintenance Organization
• Specialty hospitals
• HIPPA

Operated by federal, state and local government agencies. Ex. public hospitals and Veteran Affairs (VA).

• Government hospitals
• Extended care facilities
• Optical centers
• WHO

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

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

Agencies that provide care for the terminally ill who usually have life expectancies of six months or less. 

• St. Jude Research Hospital 
• Hospice
• Shelters
• Generally hospitals

To pay for the costs of health care, most people rely on ...?

• Health Departments
• Health Insurance Plans
• Healthy eating
• HIPPA

Amounts that must be paid by the patient for medical services before the policy begins to pay. 

• Co-insurance
• HMO
• Deductible 
• PPO

Which type of facility would a patient go to for their scheduled surgery?

• urgent care

• rehabilitation center

• public health department

• hospital

Which of these facilities is equipped to offer the widest variety of counseling services?

• ambulatory care clinic

• assisted living

• laboratory

• mental health center

Healthcare in the US is moving towards a wellness model of healthcare.

• True

• False