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Outpatient care ✔✔health services that don't require an overnight stay
Private Practice ✔✔Limited examination and testing
Self-employment = more independence, short duration,
Hospital outpatient clinics ✔✔Function as the community's safety net, providing primary care to
the medically indigent and uninsured populations
walk in clinics ✔✔range from basic primary care to urgent care, they are convenient
retail clinics ✔✔can be found in walmart or cvs
urgent care centers ✔✔offer a wide range of services for basic and acute conditions
surgicenters ✔✔surgery centers that operate independently of hospitals, they usually provide a
full range of services for surgeries that can be performed on a outpatient basis, dont require
overnight hospitalization
, mobile facilities for medical, diagnostic and screening services ✔✔health care services that are
transported directly to patients and constitute an efficient and convenient means for providing
certain health services, EX: health screening vans
telephone or internet triage ✔✔brings expert opinion and advice of health care to a patient,
especially when physicians offices are closed
home care ✔✔health care brought to patients in their homes
Hospice Care ✔✔terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of 6 months or less
outpatient long-term care services ✔✔nursing homes, case management, adult day care
public health services ✔✔range of services provided varies by locality, generally health
programs are limited in scope, includes well-baby care, STD clinics, family planning services,
TB screening, outpatient mental health care. States vary in the amount of services offered.
community health centers (1960) ✔✔centers required by law to be located in medically
underserved areas and to provide services to anyone seeking care regardless of ability to pay or
insurance. Provides family oriented dental, preventive and primary care. Serve as a primary care
safety net.
Free Clinics ✔✔1,200 free clinics serve in the U.S AT little to no cost. NOT supported or
operated by the government. Services delivered by trained volunteer staff.