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| Places where care is delivered or administered, including hospitals, long-term care facilities and treatment centers |
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| Facilities providing 24-hour skilled care |
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| Medically necessary care provided by skilled nurse or therapist; available 24-hours/daily. |
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| Illness that will eventually cause death |
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| Conditions that last a long period of time |
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| 24-hour skilled care given in hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers for people who require short-term, immediate care for illness and injuries. |
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| Serious loss of mental abilities |
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| Cost control strategy utilized by health insurance plans |
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| Health Maintenance Organization |
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| Strategy that seeks to control costs by limiting plan members' choice of healthcare providers and facilities |
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| Preferred Provider Organizations |
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| A type of health plan that contracts with medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, to create a network of participating providers. |
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| Activities of Daily Living. Eating, Bathing, Grooming, etc. |
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| Transforming services for elders so that they are based on the values and practices of the person receiving care. |
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| care that emphasizes the individuality of the person that needs care, and recognizes and develops his of her capabilities. |
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| Medical Doctor: Diagnoses disease or disability and prescribes treatment. |
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| Doctor of Osteopathy: focuses on muscular and skeletal systems to treat problems throughout the body. |
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| Physical Therapist develops treatment plan to increase movement, improve circulation, promote healing, reduce pain, prevent disability and regain or maintain mobility. |
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| SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) |
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| identifies communication disorders, addresses factors involved in recovery and develops plan of care to meet recovery goals. |
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| MSW (Medical Social Worker) |
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| Determines Residents' needs and helps get them support services. |
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| RD (Registered Dietician) |
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| Assesses Resident's nutritional status and develops a treatment plan to improve health and manage illness. |
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| Resident and Resident's Family |
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| Helps plan care for resident with care team |
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| Identifying with feelings of others |
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| Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others |
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| Tasks that healthcare providers are legally allowed to do as permitted by state and federal law. |
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| obligations imposed by the law |
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