Introduction to Allied Health Flashcards
Define Primay Care Practices
Single provider or group practice offices that provide a variety of initial care services
Define Local Community Screening Centers
- typically within local government or municipal buildings.
- They offer screenings and some chronic care services.
Define Urgent Care Centers
- Storefront healthcare centers that offer extended hours and don’t require appointments.
- They offer primary care with some ancillary services such as certain x-rays and some laboratory services.
Define Family Planning Clinics
Specialized clinics that focus on reproductive healthcare such as birth control counseling and prescribing and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Secondary care facilities
outpatient facilities that provide primary care as well as some surgical procedures or specialized care.
Public/State Hospital
run by the state government or other municipal organizations and typically accept patients of all types regardless of their ability to pay.
Rural Health Hospital
offer a variety of services for patients who live in remote areas or areas that have limited healthcare services
Critical Access Hospital (CAH)
rural and are government-administered. They must be at least 35 miles from any rural health hospital, have fewer than 25 beds, and have patient stays of no more than 96 hours. They must offer emergency department services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Veteran’s Administration Hospital
administered by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, part of the Department of Defense. They serve members of the military, public health service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
Indian Health Service Facility
serve the Indigenous Native community. Eligibility must be established to access these services.
Acute Care Hospital
provide medical and surgical care for acute (short-term) illnesses. Most hospitals are acute care facilities.
Teaching Hospital
- Hospitals who train future physicians and other healthcare professionals.
- may conduct ongoing research projects or clinical trials and provide care for patients with rare or complex conditions.
-Major teaching hospitals, or academic medical centers, may be affiliated with a medical school.
Private Nonprofit Hospital
are often acute care or community hospitals that operate as nonprofit companies.
Specialty Service Hospital
- offer special types of medical services
- Examples are MD Anderson Acute Care Cancer Hospital in Houston, Texas (serving patients with cancer) or Hospital for Special Surgery in New York (serving patients with orthopedic or rheumatological conditions).
What type of hospitals are most hospitals?
Acute Care
Long-term care facilities
provide care for longer periods and provide less technically demanding medical services than a hospital.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Center
- rehabilitation centers for mental health, substance abuse, physical and occupational therapies, and cardiac rehabilitation
- they may receive three to five hours of intensive therapy five days a week
Long-Term Care Center
- serve patients who have very long-term needs
- include patients in comas, paraplegia, and other long-term medical conditions
Skilled Nursing Facility
- centers serve as a temporary residence for patients undergoing rehabilitation treatment.
- Patients often stay for long periods and have access to some level of healthcare within the facility, typically one to two hours of non-intensive therapy per day.
Hospice Care Center
centers are locations that serve terminally ill patients with palliative and compassionate care.
Assisted Living Communities
- organizations have housing for people with various levels of healthcare needs.
- Adults live in assisted living communities while they can independently take care of their needs. As they age or their health deteriorates, they can transition to receiving appropriate nursing care.
Electronic Medical Record Specialist
Healthcare professional that manages and protects patients’ personal health information (phi) and their facilities statistical data
Alternate location facilities
facilities that serve patients in their homes or provide convenient mobile locations
medical billers and coders
healthcare professionals that use medical records to translate the diagnoses, services, and supplies into medical coding sets
long term care facility
facilities that provide care for longer periods and provide less technically demanding services than a hospital
certified healthcare professionals
healthcare professionals who are certified with specific skills that support the healthcare providers and help in patient care
medical transcriptionist
healthcare professionals that translate digitally recorded data, usually in audio format, into medical doccuments.
secondary care facilities
facilities that provide services beyond primary care
primary care facility
first and most basic level of service
- provide primary care services such as screenings, preventive exams, and initial evaluations for care.
Outpatient Healthcare facilities
facilities that provide services for patients in a single day
medical assistants
healthcare professionals that work directly with patients and healthcare providers
inpatient healthcare facilities
facilities that provide more extensive services that require staying under care for more than 24 hours
medical doctors
healthcare professionals who hold a Medical Doctor (MD) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree and are qualified to diagnose and treat patients
Midlevel providers
healthccare professionals who are licensed and may or may not work under the supervision of a physician.
hospitals
facilities that provide a range of different services for all ages of patients with a wide variety of medical needs.
Medical Administrative Professionals
health care professionals that facilitate the patients’ access to care and assist healthcare providers with administrative services.
What do Health Information Technicians specialize in?
Electronic Medical Records
Which type of facility provides services and releases patients in the same day?
outpatient facility
hard skills
job-specific skills learned through education, training, or hands-on experience
Anatomy
the study of structures in the human body.
Physiology
the study of the functions of the structures in the body.
Medical terminology
used in each of these areas as a universal language in healthcare.
Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
includes rules about keeping patient information private and safe, making health insurance accessible, having standards for sharing health information, and other significant rules for keeping healthcare professionals and business associates accountable for care.
Patient’s Bill of Rights
outlines basic rules of conduct and interaction between patients and healthcare professionals to ensure the delivery of safe and effective patient care.
False Claims Act
describes and enforces penalties for fraudulent and abusive billing practices
Affordable Care Act (ACA)
opened options for Americans to obtain and maintain health insurance.
OSHA
includes rules and safety measures such as how to handle bodily fluids and medical devices and how to use safety gear.
The scope of practice
- the standard set of tasks and duties that a professional role is considered capable of doing based on their credentials, training, and education.
- varies from state to state
Information Management
includes the collection, storage, and retrieval of health information and financial accounts
Why is human resource management critical to an organization?
It assures that adequate staff is available.
Clinical skills
skills involved in providing patient care and services.
vital signs
- blood pressure
- temperature
- pulse
- respiration rate
- sometimes blood oxygenation rate.
ambulating
moving from place to place
Direct Patient Care
any assistance or service provided directly to the patient as part of their care
Indirect patient care
describes all patient-centered services that are provided when the patient isn’t present or in preparation for the patient.
demographics
- name
- date of birth
- contact information
office operations
involve using and maintaining physical devices and the office facilities themselves.
Why do different situations require different communication skills?
Patients, administrative professionals, and physicians have different levels of understanding about medical care.
What describes how well a person recognizes their feelings and their reactions to them?
Self-awareness
What is motivation?
A desire to progress
Which is an example of applying social skills?
1. Understanding body language
2. Resolving conflict
3. Challenging yourself
4. Reacting to your feelings
- Resolving conflict
Which term describes an organization’s ability to provide care that’s respectful of patients’ cultures?
1. Cultural awareness
2. Cultural competence
- Cultural competence
Cultural competence
Cultural competence involves respecting all patients’ cultures and providing care that their culture deems acceptable.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
A way of understanding emotions and managing them with empathy and compassion.
Self-Awareness
How a person recognizes their feelings and the way they react to those feelings.
Empathy
The ability to understand the emotions of other individuals and groups
personal ethics
ethics based on life experiences, religion, family, and other cultural contexts.
Ethics
The principles and values that a person or organization holds, that guides them to the correct responses in situations.
Cultural Awareness
Knowing one’s culture, its prejudices, biases and preferences, and understanding and appreciating someone else’s culture.
Cultural diversity
The concept that there are many different cultures living among each other.
social awareness
helps anticipate and meet the needs perceived in colleagues and patients.
Professional Ethics
code of ethics developed by healthcare organizations that team members will abide by at work
Social skills
Involves using self-awareness, self-regulating, motivation and empathy towards others.
self-regulation
The understanding of how to manage the feelings that come up in self-awareness
Primary care services
- routine visits
- checks
- preventive services.
Secondary care services
involve more expertise from and are more dependent on healthcare professionals.
Tertiary care services
intensive, and patients’ lives may depend on them
Quaternary care services
research-focused and experimental
Capitation
is where a provider of healthcare services is paid to care for a roster of patients for a period of time. For example, a provider would be paid a fixed payment to treat all 5,000 patients. However, the provider may or may not actually care for each person on the list.
Medicare
available for people age 65 and older, younger people with disabilities, and people with end-stage renal disease (permanent kidney failure).
Medicaid
available for low-income individuals, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Eligibility is based on reported income in relation to the federal poverty level (FPL).
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
provides insurance coverage for children in families that don’t qualify for Medicaid based on their income but can’t afford private healthcare coverage.
TRICARE
insurance coverage for military members and their families. It covers active duty, National Guard/Reserve duty, and retired military members and their families or former spouses.
How does fee-for-service payment work?
Providers are paid for each service
ACA
Affordable Care Act
State Government Healthcare Facilities
Strategically locted in the states to provide a foundation of care for the citizen of that state
Chronic Illness Care
Includes services to treat long-term illness
Continium of Care
The range of healthcare services and service location types that are offered in the industry
Law
A mandatory rule created by a government agency
For Profit Health Organization
- Charge for their services
- Pay taxes
- Their income from services partially pays expense and partially is profit
Fee for Service Basis
Each service is billed for a specific fee and each service has to be paid individually
Not-For-Profit Healthcare Organizations
Put profit back into the organization for future use
Revenue
Income from services
Federal Government Healthcare Facilities
Typically focus on public health concerns
HITECH
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health reinforces issues of privacy and security of health information and promotes the use of electronic technology in healthcare
Preventive Care
Includes services that detect and prevent medical programs
PPACA
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), addresses access to care, creating policies and a marketplace to purchase health insurance
Claims
a request for payment to an insurance company to cover medical service cost
Local Government Facilities
Provide some healthcare facilities to the members of their communities
Regulation
Rules on how laws are to be used
Military Treatment Facility (MTF)
Serve active and retired military personnel and their families.
Compliance Plans
Plans to keep all the team and its resources in compliance with current laws and regulations.
MACRA
The Medicare Access & CHIP (Childrens’ Health Insurance Program) Reauthorization Act of 2015 provides incentives for quality of care overr quantity of care and a reasonably priced comprehensive healthcare plan for all children of low and moderate income families.
