HealthCare Terminology

3. Health care where a patient receives active, but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery for surgery
4. A type of healthcare that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient’s patient, symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life
10. An illness or condition, which cannot be cured, and is likely to lead to someone’s death
13. A wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury
14. Another word for outpatient care
15. An illness persisting for a long time for constantly reoccurring.
16. a variety of healthcare services performed designed to meet and fulfill a person’s health or personal care needs, that does not have a set time. Can either be a short period of time or long period of time

1. Medical care received without an overnight stay in the hospital or facility
2. The action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness
5. Housing for elderly or disabled people that provides nursing care, housekeeping, and preparing meals as needed
6. The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of symptoms
7. Services that of everyday life that are provided to the patient to function normally
8. Skilled nursing or rehabilitation services, provided by a licensed health professional, like nurses, physical therapists, ordered by a doctor, that is specific to the patient
9. The time of which a patient is staying under a specific providers care
11. A non-residential facility that supports the day-to-day care for health, nutritional, social, and daily living needs in a professional, staffed, group setting
12. Comprehensive inpatient care designed for someone who has an acute illness, injury, or exacerbation of a disease, that has a longer stay of care. Less intensive care than acute care, but more intensive than skilled nursing