1. U.S. Health Care Settings
Hello everyone, and I welcome you to the U.S. Health Care Settings presentation. Today we will discuss the different health care settings along with different facilities and their major functions.

2. Hospital Categories Critical access hospitals (CAH) General hospitals
Specialty hospitals
Rehabilitation hospitals
Behavioral health care hospitals
Hospitals ensure health care services to individuals who have severe health problems or injuries. CAH are hospitals placed over 35 miles away from any other hospital. General hospitals ensure emergency care, operate standard surgical treatment, and accept individuals for any varieties of problems. Specialty hospitals cope with a distinctive number of individuals, such as children, or with a particular illness, such as cancer. Rehabilitation hospitals cope with individuals who are affected by trauma or illness and need to understand how to function. Behavioral health care hospitals pay attention to curing people suffering mental health diagnoses (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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3. Ambulatory Care Settings
Outpatient care
Free standing facility
Health Clinics
Ambulatory Surgical centers
Hospital-based outpatient, emergency, and physician practices
Hospital-based facility
Ambulatory Surgery
Outpatient department
Emergency department
Ambulatory care settings helps individuals to get treatment while avoiding stay for a long period of time inside a hospital . Individuals can obtain treatment from free standing services or hospital based services. Free standing services incorporate health clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, hospital-based outpatient, emergency, and physician practice. Hospital-based services incorporate ambulatory surgical treatment, outpatient and emergency divisions (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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4. Behavioral Health Care Facility
Chemical Dependency Program
Crisis Service
Day treatment Program
Family Support Services
Residential Treatment Facility
Therapeutic Group Home
Behavioral health care services ensure health care to individuals who are are afflicted with mental disorders. Chemical dependency programs ensure 24 hour care to assist with therapy of detoxification, withdrawal management, substance harm, and chemical dependency. Crisis services ensures temporary intervention and therapy. Individuals who obtain crisis services attain 24-hour-a-day supervision. Day treatment programs ensure individuals to remain in the community but visit the facility nearly 5 days each week. Family support services be delivered to households in taking care of a family member. Residential treatment services is where critically troubled individuals obtain comprehensive psychiatric therapy on a long-term basis. Therapeutic group home is where 6 to 10 individuals reside with each other but are monitored (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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5. Types of Long-Term Care
Adult day care
Assisted-living facility
Continuing care retirement communities
long-term care hospital
Residential care facility
Skilled nursing facility
Long-term care ensures health care for several different issues, such as social, nursing, and rehabilitative facilities for the individuals who require long-term help. To look for long-term health care the recipient typically stays for more than a month. Adult day care ensures health care for the aged with physical or mental limitations. Assisted-living services assists with lodgings and cooperative facilities that the older may require. Continuing care retirement communities differ according to the individuals requirements. The inhabitants may shift from one facility to another as requirements change, but they continue to be part of the community. To be categorized as a long-term care patient it is essential to stay over 25 days inside the hospital. These individuals obtain extensive health and rehabilitative care. Residential care facilities ensure nonmedical care. Residential care services are not permitted ensure skilled treatment, but they do ensure support with routine of day-to-day living. Skilled nursing services present health care to individuals each day that is conducted by a proficient medical personnel (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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6. Managed-Care Models Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
Integrated Delivery System (IDS)
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
Point-of-Service Plan (POS)
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
Triple Option Plan
Managed care integrates health care delivery together with the budgeting of health care solutions. EPO ensures health benefits to customers to have health care treatment from network providers. IDS is a company offering shared health care features to customers. HMO’s ensure health care solutions to consumers on a pay as you go manner. Having POS individuals possess an option to utilize an HMO issuer or to utilize a non-HMO issuer. PPO is a community of doctor’s and hospitals who have merged to reach out to third-party payers to supply health care to their customers for a reduced price. Triple Option Plan ensures customers and workers with a selection of HMO, PPO, or conventional medical insurance plan (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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7. Home-Care Services Skilled Care Durable medical equipment
Personal care and support
Home infusion care
Home care grants individuals who are critically sick or dying to stay at home and still obtain medical care. Skilled care solutions incorporate evaluation and controlling of health problems, medication management, injection of catheters, tube feedings, and wound care. Home care also covers the utilization of long lasting medical tools, including items like canes, crutches, hospital beds, oxygen, walkers, and wheelchairs. Home care also offers individuals with private care and support facilities, which offer help with day-to-day living activities. Home infusion care is also delivered by home health care. Home infusion can can include chemotherapy, drug therapy, hydration therapy, pain reduction, and total parenteral nutrition (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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8. Government Health Care Facilities
Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
Federal Medical Centers (FMCs)
Military Health System (MHS)
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Public Health Services (PHS)
Government health care facilities (federal, state, and local) ensure health care to selected persons. For example, the BOP ensures medical, dental, and mental well-being solutions to inmates. The FMCs ensure essential health care to inmates. The MHS ensures medical care for working employees and their own dependents of the armed forces. The VHA ensures medical, surgical, and rehabilitative care to veterans of the military. PHS ensures skilled servicemen to advertise the nation’s health and wellbeing, restrict illness and injury, offer health facilities to federal beneficiaries, and provide health expertise in case of warfare as well as other state emergencies (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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9. Conclusion Ambulatory Care Behavioral Health Care Home Care
Long-Term Care
Managed Care
Government Health Care
Ambulatory care makes it possible for individuals to acquire care in one day without the need for staying overnight in a hospital. Behavioral health care varies from outpatient, weekly therapy, year-round household therapy and features a number of medical care options. Home care grants individuals who are severely sick to stay in their residence and get the cure. Managed care integrates medical care delivery together with the budgeting of medical care facilities. Government health care ensures inmates and armed forces to acquire health treatment. Government health care also offers veterans with health and rehabilitation programs, and medical care for military dependents (Green & Bowie, 2005).
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10. Reference of health information management:
Green, M.A. & Bowie, M.J. (2005). Essentials
of health information management:
Principles and practices. Clifton Park, NJ:
Thomson.