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Community health organization - correct answer ✔✔-organization that is involved in providing health
information, education, resources, policy, services, and care
-funding and political power affect these organizations
Health trends in US compared to other countries - correct answer ✔✔-US spends a lot of money on
healthcare, but we do not have better outcomes
-still have a high infant mortality rate
How health trends in US impact community health organizations - correct answer ✔✔-people living
longer negatively affects CHOs
-strain on funding
-higher chance of something going wrong
2 main types of health models - correct answer ✔✔Medical model and wellness model
Medical model - correct answer ✔✔-focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease
-more expensive
Wellness model - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the prevention of disease
, Federal poverty guidelines - correct answer ✔✔
Non-for-profit - correct answer ✔✔-provide relief of the poor, distressed, and underprivileged
-business-oriented
-usually tax exempt from federal and property taxes
-makes $ through patient revenue, fund-raising, grants, donations
-examples: crisis nursery center, red cross, American cancer society
-usually better quality
Ownership of non-for-profit - correct answer ✔✔Owned by the community, not investors
501(c)3 status - correct answer ✔✔-various charitable, non-profit, religious, and educational
organizations
-provides donors deduction for federal taxes
-exemption from federal income tax
501(c)3 status requirements/application - correct answer ✔✔-establish written financial assistance and
emergency medical care policies
-limits amounts charged for emergency or other medically necessary care
-must conduct a community health needs assessment