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Where Care is Delivered
Health care systems can create an environment in which organized efforts
to improve the care of people with chronic illness take hold and flourish.
Hospital - Hospitals are institutions in which illnesses, injuries, and disabilities are diagnosed and treated. Hospitals are capable of providing medical services beyond those available in physicians' offices or outpatient facilities. In the United States, hospitals are operated either privately or by government entities. Some private hospitals operate for profit; others are operated by religious or secular charitable organizations on a nonprofit basis. Hospitals may function independently or participate in multihospital systems or networks.
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Physician Office – An outpatient setting that provides health promotion, disease prevention, health maintenance, counseling, patient education, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses. Care may be provided by Primary Care and Specialist Physicians as well as ancillary staff including: Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Medical Assistants, Medical Social Workers, Pharmacists and Registered Dieticians.
- Primary Care Physician (PCP) - Provider whose specialty is family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics or obstetrics and/or gynecology.
- Specialist/Specialty Care Physician - Providers whose practices are limited to treating a specific disease (e.g., oncologists), specific parts of the body (e.g., ear, nose and throat), or specific procedures (e.g., oral surgery).
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Emergency Services: Inpatient and outpatient services needed to evaluate or stabilize an emergency medical condition and furnished by a provider qualified to deliver such services.
Emergency Medical Condition: A medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that a prudent layperson, who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine, could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in:
- Placing the health of the individual (or, with respect to a pregnant woman, the health of the woman or her unborn child) in serious jeopardy,
- Serious impairment to bodily functions, or
- Serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part
- MHP
Urgent Care: UCC practitioners specialize in treating a disease, illness, or injury when presented on an episodic basis. The disease, illness or injury which is treated in a urgent care setting is usually acute, and with treatment, is fully corrected in seven to fourteen days. Because of the focus on only episodic problems, the Urgent Care does not provide obstetric services, in-hospital admission, long term management of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, or other condition requiring long term medical management and continuity of care using the medical record history.
*Where possible it is recommended that a patient contact their primary care physician prior to seeking emergent or urgent care.
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Community Clinics
offer a full range of primary care services to families including immunizations
and well-child care, pregnancy care and deliveries, family planning
services and osteopathic manipulation. Primary medical care services
are provided for people of all ages and all abilities to pay. Services
also include behavioral health, dental care, maternal/infant, vision,
pharmacy, and transportation.
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Pharmacy – a place where drugs are prepared, dispensed and sold.
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Laboratory – A place equipped for the performance of tests, experiments, and investigative procedures
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Radiology - The use of radiation (such as x-rays) or other imaging technologies (such as ultrasound and MRI/CT) to diagnose or treat disease, illness or injury.
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- Adult Foster Care – provides basic custodial care for patients who are otherwise unable to meet these needs on their own.
- Skilled Nursing Facility – provides skilled medical care such as nursing interventions and physical therapy for a prolonged period of time.
- Extended Care Facility – provides basic custodial and medical needs for patients for an extended period of time
- Long Term Acute Care Facility – provides inpatient acute care for a prolonged period of time
- Sub-Acute Care Facility – provides inpatient acute care for an extended period of time
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility – provides inpatient acute care for physical, occupational and speech therapy services.
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Ancillary
Care Providers
Physical Therapy Services – Physical therapists (PT's)
work with patients who have impairments, limitations, disabilities or
changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury,
disease or other causes. Their role includes examination, evaluation,
diagnosis, prognosis and interventions toward achieving the highest
functional outcomes for each patient/client.
Orthotics and Prosthetics - Orthotic devices are used for bracing to support and/or increase patient mobility and function. Types of orthoses include knee and ankle braces, back supports and molded body jackets, compression garments, fracture bracing and molded arch supports for daily wear. Prosthetic devices (artificial limbs) help return mobility and function to patients after amputation.
Home Health Services - Home health care is provided to individuals and families in their place of residence for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, or restoring health or for maximizing the level of independence while minimizing the effects of disability and illness, including terminal illness.
Hospice Services - Hospice care is defined as a program of palliative and supportive care services providing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for dying persons, their families, and other loved ones. Hospice services are available in both home and inpatient settings.
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