WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Acute Care Hospital. Answer: A hospital (typically a community
hospital) that delivers services designed to meet the needs of patients
who require short-term care for a period of less than 30 days.
◉ Point of Service Plan (POS). Answer: A type of managed care plan
that is a hybrid of HMO and PPO plans. Like an HMO, participants
designate an in-network physician to be their primary care provider. But
like a PPO, patients may go outside of the provider network for health
care services.
◉ Population Health. Answer: the health outcomes of a group of
individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group
◉ Preffered Provider Organization (PPO). Answer: A type of health plan
that contracts with medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, to
create a network of participating providers.
◉ Safety Net Provider. Answer: Healthcare provider who, by mandate or
mission, organizes and delivers a significant level of healthcare and
other health-related services to uninsured, underinsured, low-income,
Medicaid, and other vulnerable populations or patients.
, ◉ Service Excellence. Answer: Anticipating and meeting or exceeding
customer needs and expectations on the basis of an organization's
mission and values.
◉ Services Lines. Answer: Patient care teams organized and coordinated
around a set of similar diseases or patient needs.
◉ Shared Governance. Answer: A nursing model in which staff nurses
share responsibility and accountability for all aspects of patient care
within the confines of the health care agency.
◉ Supply Chain Management. Answer: the management of the flow of
goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials,
of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin
to point of consumption.
◉ Triage. Answer: The evaluation of patient conditions for urgency and
seriousness, and establishment of a priority list for multiple patients
◉ Academic Health Center. Answer: An institution that encompasses all
of the health-related components of a university, including its health
professions school, patient care operations, and research enterprise.