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| American National Standards Institute |
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| Center for Disease Control |
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| Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
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| Center for Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 |
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| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act |
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| Food and Drug Administration |
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| Materials Safety Data Sheet |
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| Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
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| Heath Maintenance Organization |
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| Personal Protective Equipment |
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| Financial Accounting Standards Board |
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| Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
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| Speciality Care Assisted Living Facility |
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| Supplemental Security Income |
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| Resource Utilization Groups |
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| Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (Privacy Act) |
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| Joint Commission Accredidation of Healthcare Organizations |
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| The Federal program that provides healthcare to the elderly through Social Security |
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| The government program that provides healthcare services to the medically indigent |
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| Inpatient services rendered by hospitals and SNF's and reimbursed through Medicare |
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| Outpatient services rendered by providers and reimbursed by Medicare |
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| Prescription drug assistance and allocation program |
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| number assigned to a health care provider when qualified to provide services |
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| Needles, scalpels, or instruments that may cuase cuts or sticks |
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| care & treatment including physical, mental, social, and spiritual needs |
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| Physical medicine, works with physical and occupational therapists, directing various physical rehabilitation therapies |
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| A physician in charge of one's overall care in managed care organization; he makes referrals to specialists and orders tests |
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| Disorders of the colon and rectum |
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| Specialist in emotional and mental disorders who does psychotherapy or counseling |
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| Specialist in diagnosis and treatment by use of X-Ray and other radiant energy |
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| Specialist in rheumatic disorders, arthritis |
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| May specialize in general surgery or a special branch of surgery as cardio, cosmetic, neuro, ortho, thoracic |
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| Disorders of the Urinary tract |
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| These are Doctors of Dental Surgery (DDS) who may attend residents in nursing facilities, but cannot admit them |
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| A dentist who specializes in corrective surgery involving teeth and/or jaws |
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| A dentist who specializes in abnormality and malfunctions of the teeth and jaws; applies braces and may do corrective surgery |
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| A dentist specializing in diseases of the gums |
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| An R.N. trained to administer anesthesia |
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| Certified Dietary Manager is a person who has undergone required training and passed a compentency and sanitation and safety examination given by the Dietary Manager Association |
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| A doctor of chiropractic who may attend residents by cannot admit them to nursing homes. He is not a doctor of medicine, but employs manipulation of body joints to improve nerve function |
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| A person trained in dietetics and eligible for registration in the ADA or other certifying organization |
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| Some states license family counselors whose work is much like psychology or social work |
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| One who studies and describes the again precesses and problems and endeavors to increase understanding of how to work with the aged. He may or may not hold a doctor of medicine degree. |
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| Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse |
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| Graduate of a practical nursing school who is licensed to practice |
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| A doctor of optometry examines and diagnoses problems of the eye, prescribes and fits eyeglasses, but cannot treat diseases of the eye or do eye surgery. He can attend residents in nursing facilities but cannot admit them. In some states an optometrist can prescribe limited eye medication, but he is not a doctor of medicine. |
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| A person duly qualified by training and licensing to fill prescriptions, review medications, and serve as a consultant to nursing facilities |
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| A doctor of podiatric medicine who specializes in diagnoses and treatment of probelms of the feet. He can attend residents in a nursing facility but cannot admit. |
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| In 1850 what 2 hospitals opened and where were they located? |
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| Bellvue Hospital in NYC and Mass. General in Boston. This began the institutionalization of healthcare |
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Epidemic of acute infection due to food, water, housing, and living conditions
Virtually no technology
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Individuals relied on charity/goodwill
Families cared for loved ones at home |
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| In the 1900s what was introduced into medicine and what opened? |
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The scientific methods
Johns Hopkins Medical School |
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Chronic Diseases: heart disease, cancer, stroke
Growth of science & technology
Development of insurance as primary vehicle of organized HC
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| What bill passed in 1946 and what was it for? |
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| Hill Burton Act, hospital construction |
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| What passed in 1965 under President Johnson? |
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| Medicare and Medicaid Acts |
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Chronic diseases: related to environmental, behavioral, occupational, emotional, and genetics
Explosion of technology with increased costs
Increased influence of Medicare/Medicaid
Informed public (though mass media)
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| Predominate Problems of Early Times |
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outbreaks of plague, typhoid, smallpox, yellow fever, etc
Food storage, Water supply, sewage, and poor housing |
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| There were 5,071 deaths in NYC related to these causes |
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| 9000+ deaths reported in New Orleans due to yellow fever |
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| States began to employ city planners to develop systems of water purification, sewage disposa, and other safeguards. This was the beginning of public health as we know it. |
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| At St. Mary's Hospital in London, Alexander Flemming made the first of many discoveries that would lead to the discovery of penicillin. |
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| When did antibiotics become readily available? |
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