Rehab Organizations

Question 1

PM&R

Answer 1

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Question 2

Team effort

Answer 2

primary team member is the patient

Question 3

(S) Acute Hospital

Answer 3

must have 24 hour RN available, must have a lab, must have an ER (average LOS is 3 days)

Question 4

(S) Acute rehab hospital

Answer 4

must have diagnoses, other specific criteria are defined by medicare, need a plan to be discharged for more independent living, must tolerate 3 hours of therapy per day, they have a meeting for each patient for Plan of Care, # of established programs

Question 5

(S) Outpatient

Answer 5

Majority only PT

Question 6

(S) Post-acute/sub-acute

Answer 6

Tolerate 2 hours of therapy per day, includes ventilator patients, more unstable than acute

Question 7

(S) LTAC Long term acute care

Answer 7

Doesn’t have anything :`(

Question 8

(S) Hospice

Answer 8

improves quality of life, pain management, not necessarily looking for improvement

Question 9

(S) Nursing Home/SNF Skilled Nursing Facility/ECF Extended care facility

Answer 9

Alzheimer’s patients are safer here, long or short term. When it is long term it is their residence so you treat their rooms as if it is a home

Question 10

(S) Home health

Answer 10

typically a PT comes and sometimes OT or Speech therapist, must prove the patient is homebound for insurance purposes

Question 11

(S) Same day Sx center

Answer 11

Typically no PT, sometimes on-call PT for education purposes

Question 12

Outside agencies

Answer 12

need a business license to operate, license has rules for public protection, need handicap parking, outlets, bathroom accessibility, fire exits and training

Question 13

Certifications

Answer 13

you need to meet specific accreditations, medicare certification, if you don’t follow rules, you lose medicare

Question 14

JCHO

Answer 14

Joint commission on accreditation on healthcare organizations

Question 15

CARF

Answer 15

Commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (difficult to obtain)

Question 16

CORF

Answer 16

Comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility (must have a minimum of a PT, MD, and psychologist or social worker)

Question 17

75% vs 25%

Answer 17

75 of all care is paid for by government entities, 25 of care is paid for by personal insurance/out of pocket

Question 18

Organizations have…

Answer 18

an organizational chart that includes lines of reporting, all of them are different, it is up to the organization to create (Ex. the tech reports to the PT, the PTA reports to the PT, PT reports to his/her boss, etc…)