C425 WGU – Questions & Verified Answers
Outpatient care ✔️Ans - health services that don't require an overnight
stay
Private Practice ✔️Ans - Limited examination and testing
Self-employment = more independence, short duration,
Hospital outpatient clinics ✔️Ans - Function as the community's safety
net, providing primary care to the medically indigent and uninsured
populations
walk in clinics ✔️Ans - range from basic primary care to urgent care,
they are convenient
retail clinics ✔️Ans - can be found in walmart or cvs
urgent care centers ✔️Ans - offer a wide range of services for basic and
acute conditions
surgicenters ✔️Ans - 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 ✔️Ans -
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 ✔️Ans - brings expert opinion and advice of
health care to a patient, especially when physicians offices are closed
home care ✔️Ans - health care brought to patients in their homes
Hospice Care ✔️Ans - terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of 6
months or less
, outpatient long-term care services ✔️Ans - nursing homes, case
management, adult day care
public health services ✔️Ans - 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) ✔️Ans - 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 ✔️Ans - 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.
Alternative medicine clinics ✔️Ans - Complementary and alternative
medicine (cam). Complementary intervention are used with conventional
medical treatments. Alternative interventions are used instead of
conventional medicine. Alternative examples are yoga, prayer, herbal
remedies
Primary care ✔️Ans - basic and routine services that include prevention,
diagnostic, and therapeutic services, health education, counseling, minor
surgeries. Should be seen as a approach to health care.
secondary care ✔️Ans - short term, consultation from a specialist,
includes hospitalization, routine surgery, specialty consultation, rehab
Teritary care ✔️Ans - highly specialized, technology driven, mostly
rendered in large teaching hospitals. May be long term. EX: burn
treatments, neonatal intensive care, tissue transplants, open heart surgery
Effectiveness of primary care ✔️Ans - lower hospitalization rates, lower
total health care rates, lower rates of self reported poor health, longer life
expectancy
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