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Weekly OverviewWeek TwoOverviewHealth care delivery encompasses federal and state structures as well as private, for-profit, and voluntary structures. These organizations include a variety of facilities and services that provide diagnosis and treatment, health promotion and disease prevention, and therapeutic rehabilitation. Nationally, there are health care structures like the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). State health departments, hospitals, clinics and medical offices, long-term care, home health care, urgent care, retail health care (mini-clinics in stores), online health care, and hospices offer a variety of health care. Many types of departments within these facilities collaborate to deliver health care services. For instance, an individual may see a physician in a clinic, but he or she is then sent to laboratory and radiology departments for testing. The patient may have treatment in a hospital or outpatient surgery center with the assistance of nursing, technologists, dietitians, pharmacists, and social workers. Rehabilitation services may follow a hospitalization or outpatient procedure to enhance recovery.Besides the patient care offered by hospitals and centers for ambulatory care, rehabilitation and mental health services, the personnel at public health and wellness centers can offer ideas for healthy eating and living that increase disease prevention and health promotion. This week expands your understanding of the medical terms used for all types of health care structures and delivery.What you will coverHealth Care Structures and Delivery SystemsIdentify the structure and impact of the health care industry.Federal and state structuresDepartment of Health and Human Services (DHHS)Functions as a federal organization providing information regarding federal programsResource for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)Functions as the federal source of government-sponsored health care programsResource for federal Medicare and federal or state Medicaid servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Functions as the epidemiological tracking and trending center for diseases in the United StatesResource for disease-related information, primarily in the United StatesState public health departmentFunctions as the epidemiological tracking and trending center for diseases within the stateResource for state information regarding diseases, public health clinics, and state public health information servicesIndian Health Services (IHS)Functions as the primarily source for American Indian health servicesResource for American Indian health services, including the location of hospitals, clinics, educational programs, and reservationsU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)Functions as an access point for veterans seeking services from the federal governmentResource for VA hospitals and clinics; an information source for veteransPrivate, for-profit, and voluntary structuresHospitals deliver primary patient care and serve as a source for medical staff trainingClinics (traditional and stand-alone) deliver short-term ambulatory patient care that is not usually of an urgent naturePhysician offices serve as the entry point to the health care system as physicians diagnose and treat disease and provide wellness servicesLong-term care (LTC) facilities provide long-term care to older adults and adults with disabilities who are unable to take care of themselves in a private settingHome health services provide needed care in a patient’s home, usually on a short-term basisHospice provides care to the dying and provides support for family and friendsUrgent care delivers short-term, urgent, and ambulatory patient careDescribe health care services and functions.Overview of the four broad types of services in health careHealth promotion: active living and healthy eatingDisease preventionAcute: immunizations and infection controlChronic: heart disease, hypertension, and cancerDiagnosis and treatmentRehabilitationTypes of health care facilitiesHospitalsDelivering patient careEmergency careProcedural or surgical careSpecialized care (woman’s hospital, orthopedic hospital, and so on) Training institutionsConducting researchProviding patient educationAmbulatory health care servicesRoutine, complex, or specialized carePhysician officesUrgent care centersChronic pain clinicsSame-day surgery centers, infusion centers, dialysis, etc.Most frequent contact people have with the health care systemRehabilitation servicesSkilled nursing and long-term care centersChemical dependencyMental health servicesInpatient Outpatient Public health care services United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)Local public health departmentsProfessional organizations such as the American Cancer SocietyRetail Health ClinicsOnline Health CareHealth care teamsFunctional teams: focus on specific problems (for example, a coronary team)Patient-centered teams: patient and families as decision makers ................
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