HPRS 4334 - Ch 1 || with Error-free Solutions.
Inpatient correct answers this was a patient who got admitted to a medical facility for at least one
night - overnight stay
Traditional healthcare
Outpatient correct answers Patient is examined, diagnosed, or treated at a medical facility but
doesn't stay overnight
Hospital Ownership types correct answers -Public (federal & state government)
-Private (non-profit, For profit, Physician Owned)
Public Ownership correct answers Federal, state, local government
3 federal agencies: Department of Defense, Indian Health service, Veterans health administration
State/local: state hospitals are typically long-term facilities for psychiatric patients. Most public
hospitals, though, are safety-net, general hospitals that maintain a primary focus on free or
reduced-cost care for underserved populations.
Prison hospitals correct answers administered by federal, state, or local governments, or by
private contractors.
Private correct answers Not operate by government but can be funded by the government
Not for profit correct answers hospital mainstays that historically stem from charity institutions
for the poor.
Not for profit: Secular correct answers most not-for-profit hospitals are owned and operated by
non-religious civic organizations.
locally prominent citizens
Not for profit: religious correct answers religious organizations have opened hospitals over the
years, seeking to serve their own population, the underserved, or the community at large
For profit correct answers owned by private corporations and some of the hospital's profit is
given to shareholders
organizations are required to pay taxes
physician owned hospitals correct answers majority are for-profit institutions.
These hospitals can be of any type but are more likely to be single-specialty
Hospital services: correct answers general and specialty
, General services correct answers supply a range of services, including emergency services,
OB/GYN, internal medicine, surgery, and a variety of others.
General services: teaching correct answers Teaching hospitals explicitly include the training of
medical students, residents, and other health care professionals as part of their mission
Specialty services correct answers focus solely on a single specialty
Specialty: Children's correct answers may be general hospitals for children, or they may be a
section of a medical-surgical hospital
Specialty: Psychiatric correct answers All focus solely on mental disorders, although they vary
widely in breadth of services and in size.
Most hospitals are part of a health delivery system or a? correct answers Network
Horizontal Network correct answers conglomeration of multiple institutions of the same type
vertical networks correct answers contains different types of services.
Example:
Kaiser Permanente, a network of organizations that function variously as an insurer, an owner of
hospitals and outpatient centers, and an employer of physicians.
Hospital organization correct answers -Board of Directors/Trustees
-Administrative services
-Therapeutic services
-diagnostic services
-informational services
-support services
-committees
Board of Directors/Trustees correct answers small group sets the strategic vision for the hospital,
provides oversight of the hospital's finances and quality, and hires and fires the CEO.
Administrative services correct answers run the hospital on a day-to-day basis. They execute
hospital policy, manage finances and budgetary planning, and handle marketing and public
relations.
Therapeutic services correct answers workers provide the care normally associated with
hospitals, such as physician visits, drugs, surgery, physical therapy, social work, psychiatry,
Diagnostic Services correct answers these workers administer the laboratory,
testing, and imaging facilities that help those in therapeutic services to figure out what care is
needed.
