Inpatient Facilities And Services

Question 1

Voluntary Hospitals

Answer 1

Non profit community hospitals financed through local philanthropy instead of taxes

Question 2

Board of trustees

Answer 2

Elected members to a governing board that controlled voluntary hospitals

Question 3

Swing beds

Answer 3

Allows small rural hospitals to switch bed use from acute care to long term care

Question 4

Discharge

Answer 4

Total number of patients discharged from hospitals acute care beds in a given period

Question 5

Inpatient day

Answer 5

A night spent in the hospital by a patient

Question 6

Days of care

Answer 6

Cumulative number of patient days over a certain period

Question 7

Average length of stay

Answer 7

Total days of care/total number of discharges

Question 8

Average daily census

Answer 8

Average number of inpatients receiving care each day in a hospital

Question 9

Occupancy rate

Answer 9

Average daily census/average number beds

Question 10

Public hospitals

Answer 10

Owned by agencies of federal, state, or local governments

Question 11

Propriety or investor-owned hospitals

Answer 11

For profit owned by individuals, partnerships, or corporations.

Question 12

Community hospital

Answer 12

Non federal short stay hospital whose facilities are available to the public

Question 13

Multi-hospital system

Answer 13

When two are more hospitals are owned, leased, sponsored, or contractually managed by a central organization

Question 14

General hospital

Answer 14

Variety of services to meet general needs of community. Most US hospitals are general.

Question 15

Specialty hospital

Answer 15

Provide diagnostic treatment to inpatients with a specific disease or condition. Not mental Orr substance abuse.

Question 16

Rehabilitation hospital

Answer 16

Specialize in therapeutic services to restore the maximum level of functioning in patients who have suffered recent disability due to an episode of illness or accident

Question 17

Short stay hospital

Answer 17

Average length of stay is 25 days or less. Most hospitals.

Question 18

Urban hospitals

Answer 18

Located in a county that is part of a metropolitan statistical area.

Question 19

Rural hospitals

Answer 19

Located in a county that is not part of a metropolitan statistical area

Question 20

Critical access hospital

Answer 20

Certain rural hospitals that have no more that 25 beds and they provide ER services.

Question 21

Teaching Hospital

Answer 21

Has one or more graduate residency programs approved by the AMA

Question 22

Academic medical center

Answer 22

When one or more hospitals with or without affiliated outpatient clinics are organized around a medical school

Question 23

Board of trustees

Answer 23

Legally responsible for operations of hospital and consists of influential business and community leaders

Question 24

Executive committee

Answer 24

Monitors responsibility and authority over the hospital

Question 25

Medical staff committee

Answer 25

Charged with medical staff relations

Question 26

Chief of staff

Answer 26

Head of medical staff

Question 27

Chief of service

Answer 27

Such as chief of cardiology or heads each specialty

Question 28

Credentials committee

Answer 28

Grants and reviews admitting privileges for those already credentialed and for new doctors whose skills are yet untested

Question 29

Medical records committee

Answer 29

Ensures that accurate documentation is maintained on the entire regimens of care given to each patient

Question 30

Utilization review committee

Answer 30

Performs routine checks to ensure that inpatient placements as well as the length of stay are clinically appropriate

Question 31

Infection control committee

Answer 31

Reviews policy procedures for minimizing infections in hospitals

Question 32

Quality improvement committee

Answer 32

Overseas the program for continual quality improvement

Question 33

Licensure

Answer 33

Each state sets its own standards and state governments oversea licensure of health care facilities

Question 34

Certification

Answer 34

Gives the hospital the authority to participate in Medicare and Medicaid

Question 35

Conditions of participation

Answer 35

Hospitals must meet conditions to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. This is done to protect patient health and safety and to ensure quality.

Question 36

Accreditation

Answer 36

Private mechanism designed to assure that accredited health care facilities meet certain basic standards.

Question 37

Deemed status

Answer 37

Means the hospital is deemed to have met Medicare and Medicaid standards

Question 38

Magnet hospital

Answer 38

American nurses credentialing center that recognizes quality patient care, nursing excellence, and innovations in professional nursing practice in hospitals.

Question 39

Patients bill of rights

Answer 39

Document they reflects the law concerning issues such as confidentiality and consent

Question 40

Informed consent

Answer 40

Patient right to make an informed choice regarding medical treatment

Question 41

Patient centered care

Answer 41

Patients are involved in their own care and treatment

Question 42

Advance directives

Answer 42

Patients wished regarding continuation or withdrawal of treatment when the patient lacks decision making capacity

Question 43

Do not resuscitate order

Answer 43

Directs caregivers not to administer any artificial means to resuscitate person when heart or breathing stops

Question 44

Living will

Answer 44

Communicates patients wishes raga riding medical treatment when they are unable to make decision due to illness or incapacitation

Question 45

Durable power of attorney

Answer 45

Written legal document where patient appoints another person to act on their behalf when they can not

Question 46

Ethics committee

Answer 46

Develops guidelines and standards for ethical decision making in the delivery of health care

Question 47

Moral agent

Answer 47

The manager morally affects and is morally affected by actions taken