Hospital Departments Flashcards
What Departments does registering emergency patients belong to?
Admitting (Patient Registration)
Biomedical Engineering
Maintains all clinical equipment used at the facility
Business Office
Accounting
Case Management
Initiates discharge plan upon inpatient discharge
Central Sterilizing Service
Processes the sterilization of surgical instruments
Clinical Lab
Conducts diagnostic tests ordered by the physicians.
Community Realtions
Communicates to the public about hospital events
Durable Medical Equipment
Can be a contracted service
Electroneurodiagnostic Testing
Provides electroneurodiagnostic testing to patients with neurological diseases
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Provides professional guidance to employees and family members when personal or work-related problems become difficult to manage
Health Information Management Services
Medical Record keeping
Occupational Therapy
Serves patients that have lost function resulting from injury or disease
Preadmissions Testing
Patients visits this departments to be assessed for surgery
Recreation Therapy
Restores, remediates, and rehabilitates patients to improve functioning and independence as well as reduce or eliminate the effects of illness of disease