PUBH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Outline Of Health Sciences, Information System, Kaiser Permanente
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Inpatient facilities: implies that patients remain in the facility for at least 24 hours. Hospitals, skilled nursing and rehab facilities, nursing homes, institutional hospices. Hospitals generally designed for short term stays. Outpatient facilities: places providing clinical services by one or more clinicians and those providing diagnostic testing or treatment. Provider: a term that is used to encompass the growing array of health professionals. Licensed by state and usually accredited by a national organization. Hospitals have an organized physician staff and provide 24 hour a day nursing services. Governed by a governing board separate from medical and nursing staff. Speciality hospitals serve the needs of patients who cannot be accommodated in general hospitals. Can be nonprofit, for profit, investor owned, etc. Academic health center: a medical school, health profession school, affiliated hospital. Structure: focuses on physical; and organizational infrastructure in which care is delivered. Process: concentrates on the procedures and formal processes that go into delivering care.
