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Intro Into Healthcare Science
[{"left":"What is a private hospital?","right":"Private Hospitals are operated for profit and are often owned by shareholders or private companies."},{"left":"What is the Saint Joseph's Hospital?","right":"A hospital in Atlanta, founded by the Sisters of Mercy 1880. It is the oldest hospital in Atlanta. It is a 410-bed acute-care facility. Top specialty-referral hospital in the South-east."},{"left":"What is a non-profit hospital?","right":"Not in business to provide profits to owners or shareholders. Profit is made but used for improvements."},{"left":"What is a long-term care center?","right":"Allow patients to live there as residents. Generally houses the elderly who cannot take care of themselves and the disabled."},{"left":"What is Home Health care?","right":"Care that is given to patients in their own home. Care is less expensive and more convenient for the patient."},{"left":"Hospital Departments?","right":"Are grouped in order to improve efficiency. Grouping is done according to similarities of the duties."},{"left":"Penicillin?","right":"1930-1965 was characterized by workers moving from the city to suburbia and advances in medicine with the discovery of penicillin as an antibiotic, streptomycin to combat tuberculosis and the Salk vaccine as a remedy to Polio."},{"left":"Mid-60's to 80's","right":"focused on developing resources that improved access to care through the federally supported healthcare plans for certain populations. implementation of the \"open door\" hospital was realized as a measure to address the ongoing cost crisis associated with the delivery of an expectable standard of quality health care."},{"left":"Epidemiology?","right":"The study of health and disease in human populations."},{"left":"Epidemiologists study?","right":"Communicable, cardiovascular diseases. Cancer, mental illness, and accidents."},{"left":"Prevalence?","right":"the number of times a condition occurs in relations to the total amount of people."},{"left":"Monitoring?","right":"uses surveillance data to determine changes in the number of affected people."},{"left":"Morbidity?","right":"The number of cases of a specific disease in a specific time period per unit of population. (1000)"}]
Healthcare Delivery Systems
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