Williams Shanika Primary Care Outpatient Services and Hospitals
“Primary Care, Outpatient Services and Hospitals”
Shanika Williams
Grantham University
1. Define each outpatient healthcare setting as listed in your text.
Practice - form the backbone of ambulatory care. b. Hospital outpatient clinics - function as the community safe net. c. freestanding facilities - walk in clinics b. Mobile facilities - provide certain types of health service d. Telephone triage- expert opinion and advice. f. Home care - service bought to people at home. g. hospice care -a cluster of comprehensive services. H. outpatient long term care -provide coordination and complements informal care. I. Public services -care of patients. j. Community health - provide family orientation and preventive care. Alternative clinics - including wide range of treatments.
2. Explain the significance of gatekeeping in regards to primary care and keeping healthcare costs down. Gatekeeping - is mainly for the care of the patients to prevent them from been admitted into a hospital without their primary physician.
3. Define primary, secondary, and tertiary care and give examples of each one in action.
Primary care - is the conceptual foundation for outpatient service. Example: Hospitals Ed service is usually intended to provide care. Secondary - is short term in nature. Example: Routine surgery. Tertiary - the most complex level. Example: trauma care
4. Define each type of hospital listed in your text.
Community - nonfederal shoot term stay. Public- hospital owned by agencies. Practice - operated by community. Private - owned by individual. General - provide diagnostic surgical. Specialty -administration admit only certain types. Psychiatric - provide diagnostic and health. Rehabilitation - retain the maximum level of function. Children’s -have special facilities. Rustling located in a Country. Teaching -have to offer one or more graduate residence program. Osteopathic - represent an approach medical private.
References
Essentials of
Shanika Williams
Grantham University
1. Define each outpatient healthcare setting as listed in your text.
Practice - form the backbone of ambulatory care. b. Hospital outpatient clinics - function as the community safe net. c. freestanding facilities - walk in clinics b. Mobile facilities - provide certain types of health service d. Telephone triage- expert opinion and advice. f. Home care - service bought to people at home. g. hospice care -a cluster of comprehensive services. H. outpatient long term care -provide coordination and complements informal care. I. Public services -care of patients. j. Community health - provide family orientation and preventive care. Alternative clinics - including wide range of treatments.
2. Explain the significance of gatekeeping in regards to primary care and keeping healthcare costs down. Gatekeeping - is mainly for the care of the patients to prevent them from been admitted into a hospital without their primary physician.
3. Define primary, secondary, and tertiary care and give examples of each one in action.
Primary care - is the conceptual foundation for outpatient service. Example: Hospitals Ed service is usually intended to provide care. Secondary - is short term in nature. Example: Routine surgery. Tertiary - the most complex level. Example: trauma care
4. Define each type of hospital listed in your text.
Community - nonfederal shoot term stay. Public- hospital owned by agencies. Practice - operated by community. Private - owned by individual. General - provide diagnostic surgical. Specialty -administration admit only certain types. Psychiatric - provide diagnostic and health. Rehabilitation - retain the maximum level of function. Children’s -have special facilities. Rustling located in a Country. Teaching -have to offer one or more graduate residence program. Osteopathic - represent an approach medical private.
References
Essentials of
References: Essentials of the U.S HealthCare System 3rd Ed. Chapters 7&8