Community Health
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QUIZ 4 - Chapter 12,
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Chapter 12 - Care Management, Case Management, and Home Healtcare
, - fectious disease in a susceptible host.
- Proagated outbreak: outbreak resulting from the direct / indirect transmission of an
infectious agent from an infectious agent from an infected person to a susceptible
host, secondary infections can occur. Generates secondary infections with intervals
between peaks that approximate the usual incubation period for infec
- Balanced Budget Act: The historical federal act of 1977 that made significant cuts in
home care budgets on the basis of the enactment of perspective reimbursement.
Congress cut $16 billion in payments to the home health industry over 5 years.
- Homebound: A condition in which patient cannot leave their home
- Hospital-based Agency: a home health agency that is not freestanding int he
community, one of many specialty servies offered at hospital setting. May be profit
OR non-profit
- Managed Care / Care Management: a framework of fiscal management that
emphasizes cost containment. Coordination of a plan / process to bring health
services together as a common whole in a cost-effective way. (ex.) coordinating a plan
for providing services in the most COST EFFECTIVE way possible to a large number
of members living in the region.)
- Official Agency: a home health agency that exists at the bequest of local, state, or
federal legislation.
- Fait / Parish Nursing: A model of care for members of faith community that can include
wellness care through home visiting. Roles include: health ducator, personal health
counselor, referral agent, coordinator of volunteers, developer of supportive groups,
integrator of faith / health, health advocate. → ex.) teaching a class to faith
community members on managing high blood pressure, providing counsel on
preventnig upper respiratory illness to member, referring a faith community member
to a nutritionist for dietary counseling.
- Population Haelth management: The aggregation f patient data across multiple health
information technology resources.
- Proprietary agency: a home health agency that is motivated by a for-profit philosophy.
→ ex.) national chain of home healthcare agencies directed at caring for clients who are
on home hemodialysis. Services provided are often paid for privately by families and
any profit margin is used to benefit owner of agency.
- Voluntary Agency: A home health agency that is motivated by a not-for-profit
philosophy. → ex.) nurse appointed to a community-based advisory board of an
agency that is interested in providing fiscally sound, high quality care for clients they
decide will be their service population. Any profit margin that is acquired is reinvsted in
the operations of the home healthcare service.
- Case Management: involves disease management (emphasizes prevention aat
secondary / tertiary level using evidenced-based practice guidelines - can be a
nurse, social worker, public health expert). Development / coordination of care for a
selected client and family. Managed by RN.
- Client with type 2 diabetes & heart disease: provide weekly coaching sessions
by telephone for blood glucose management, demonstrate use of glucose meter
to client, review heart healthy / diabetic friendly food options with the client and
family.
- Example of advocacy (always moving the needs of clients, families, communities to
the point of awareness that will advance change / increase quality of life &
YELLOW = Quizlet
QUIZ 4 - Chapter 12,
16 (2/14)
Chapter 12 - Care Management, Case Management, and Home Healtcare
, - fectious disease in a susceptible host.
- Proagated outbreak: outbreak resulting from the direct / indirect transmission of an
infectious agent from an infectious agent from an infected person to a susceptible
host, secondary infections can occur. Generates secondary infections with intervals
between peaks that approximate the usual incubation period for infec
- Balanced Budget Act: The historical federal act of 1977 that made significant cuts in
home care budgets on the basis of the enactment of perspective reimbursement.
Congress cut $16 billion in payments to the home health industry over 5 years.
- Homebound: A condition in which patient cannot leave their home
- Hospital-based Agency: a home health agency that is not freestanding int he
community, one of many specialty servies offered at hospital setting. May be profit
OR non-profit
- Managed Care / Care Management: a framework of fiscal management that
emphasizes cost containment. Coordination of a plan / process to bring health
services together as a common whole in a cost-effective way. (ex.) coordinating a plan
for providing services in the most COST EFFECTIVE way possible to a large number
of members living in the region.)
- Official Agency: a home health agency that exists at the bequest of local, state, or
federal legislation.
- Fait / Parish Nursing: A model of care for members of faith community that can include
wellness care through home visiting. Roles include: health ducator, personal health
counselor, referral agent, coordinator of volunteers, developer of supportive groups,
integrator of faith / health, health advocate. → ex.) teaching a class to faith
community members on managing high blood pressure, providing counsel on
preventnig upper respiratory illness to member, referring a faith community member
to a nutritionist for dietary counseling.
- Population Haelth management: The aggregation f patient data across multiple health
information technology resources.
- Proprietary agency: a home health agency that is motivated by a for-profit philosophy.
→ ex.) national chain of home healthcare agencies directed at caring for clients who are
on home hemodialysis. Services provided are often paid for privately by families and
any profit margin is used to benefit owner of agency.
- Voluntary Agency: A home health agency that is motivated by a not-for-profit
philosophy. → ex.) nurse appointed to a community-based advisory board of an
agency that is interested in providing fiscally sound, high quality care for clients they
decide will be their service population. Any profit margin that is acquired is reinvsted in
the operations of the home healthcare service.
- Case Management: involves disease management (emphasizes prevention aat
secondary / tertiary level using evidenced-based practice guidelines - can be a
nurse, social worker, public health expert). Development / coordination of care for a
selected client and family. Managed by RN.
- Client with type 2 diabetes & heart disease: provide weekly coaching sessions
by telephone for blood glucose management, demonstrate use of glucose meter
to client, review heart healthy / diabetic friendly food options with the client and
family.
- Example of advocacy (always moving the needs of clients, families, communities to
the point of awareness that will advance change / increase quality of life &
