Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Provider
- Types of Care
Services
- Primary Care
Anmerkungen:
- Service provided by physicians (also called PCP), during the very first encounter with a patient seeking medical care. Usually is a general practioner
- Secondary Care
Anmerkungen:
- services provided by medical specialists referred by PCP (Primary Care Provider).
- Tertiary Care
Anmerkungen:
- Services provided by specialist hospitals or regional centers. Highly specialized medical care that involves advanced and complex procedures and treatments performed by medical specialists in state-of-the-art facilities
- Provider Settings
Anmerkungen:
- a place of service wherein provider provides healthcare
services.
- Physician clinics
Anmerkungen:
- dedicated to OP for diagnosis & treatment.
- Physician group practices
Anmerkungen:
- "small rural IDN" - a formal association of 3 or more physicians
- IDNs
Anmerkungen:
- Integrated Delivery Network:
Network of providers giving coordinated continuum of services. (ie. Kaiser Permanente)
Health plan enters into a contractual arrangement with specified providers.
- DC centers
Anmerkungen:
- Day Care centers – "Less than 24 hrs" facilities
performing procedures on an outpatient basis
- Diagnostic Centers
Anmerkungen:
- "Tertiary Care" type offer various modalities of testing ranging from cardiac, radiology, laboratory, nuclear imaging, etc.
- Skilled Nursing Facility
Anmerkungen:
- Nursing home - (kind of like a retirement home but with professional medical services offered) offers constant nursing care to patients with physical/mental disabilities
- Hospice Care
Anmerkungen:
- Hospice care - "end of life" is a type of care that focuses on the palliation of a
chronically ill, terminally ill
patient's pain ,symptoms
and addressing their emotional
and spiritual needs.
- Patient Acuity
Anmerkungen:
- Measurement of the intensity of care required. Acuity has become a reference for estimating nurse staffing allocations and budget
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- Ambulatory /
OP
Anmerkungen:
- DC
Anmerkungen:
- Day Care setting
Patient is admitted in the hospital for a time period less than 24 hours.
Usually for short procedures requiring minimal post operative care e.g. Cataract surgery, laparoscopic surgeries.
- HHC
Anmerkungen:
- Skilled Nursery Facility
- Hospice
- UC
Anmerkungen:
- Emergency/ Urgent Care setting
- IP
Anmerkungen:
- ER
- Functional Overview of Hospital
- Clinical Dept.
in Hospital
Anmerkungen:
- "Ancillary" i.e. ER, Cardiology, Pharmacy, Labs
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- Operational
Services
Anmerkungen:
- i.e. Coding and Billing, Cafeteria, Catering/Kitchen, Housekeeping, Security.
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- Administrative
Services in a
Hospital
Anmerkungen:
- "Back-end / behind the curtain"i.e. Administration Office, Budget/Planning, HR, Social Services.
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