Different Outpatient Care Settings Flashcards
Private Practice
Office-based health care providers, mostly primary care, limited testing, visits are short in duration.
Hospital-based outpatient services
Often inner-city, safety-net primary care for underserved populations, source for profits for hospitals. There are slo clinical, surgical, home health, women’s health, and emergency department care.
Free-standing clinics
Walk-in clinics including retail urgent care facilities, accept patients without appointments, and often in place of having a primary care provider available.
Mobile medical, diagnostic & screening service
Mobile health units (Mammography vans, COVID-19 pop-ups)
Telephone or Internet triage
Nurses provide expert opinion prior to a doctor’s appointment.
Home care
Services brought to the home such as daily living activities, nursing, medication monitoring, short-term rehab, and delivering medical equipment.
Hospice care
Services for the terminally-ill (<6 months to live). Palliative care (pain management), psychosocial and spiritual support.
Outpatient long-term care services
Nursing homes, case management and adult day care.
Public health services
Usually provided by local health departments and are limited in scope. These are mainly focused on population health outcomes like maternal child health, STI clinics, family planning, screening, and mental health support.
Community health centers
Started by H. Jack Geiger and John Hatch in the late 1960s and provides primary care to persons in underserved areas. Operates under the Bureau of Primary Health Care, USPHS, DHHS. They cannot refuse care to people who do not have the health insurance or the ability to pay. They use a sliding scale.
Federally-qualified health centers
CHCs funded from Section 330 of the Health Care Consolidation Act of 1996. FQHCs maintain their designation by providing comprehensive medical care (including oral health, mental health, and substance use services) to medically underserved areas and/or medically underserved (See more in the Notes)
Free clinics
Charity clinics modeled after the 19th dispensary. Use voluntary providers with services provide at little to no cost.
Alternative medicine clinics
Use other non-Western medical modalities to treat patients
