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- 4. Certificate approved by a local review board permitting hospitals to construct new or additional facilities, open new services, or make large purchases
- 5. Federal agency that administers the Medicare program and partners with states to administer Medicaid
- 6. Insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid, and other commercial companies that are the payers of inpatient and outpatient medical expenses for the patient
- 8. Services providing the components of patient care that collectively support the physician's plan for diagnoses and treatments
- 10. A professional medical society that has accredited more than 39,000 facilities in 10 imaging modalities to assist organizations in meeting governmental and third party payer criteria
- 11. Establishes minimum standards of a mammography program to ensure that all women have access to quality services
- 14. Group of people authorized by law to conduct, maintain, and operate a hospital for the benefit of the public and whose legal and moral responsibility for policies and operations of the hospital are not for personal benefit of the members
- 15. Unit of the hospital with specific functions or specialized skills such as housekeeping, surgery, radiology, or accounting
- 17. Management of quality in the workplace from a perspective of total involvement of every employee, with a strong focus on process measurement and control
- 21. Physician who represents a department or service and sits as a formal member of the executive medical staff committee
- 22. Ancillary department of the hospital responsible for recruiting, selecting, supporting, and compensating employees
- 23. Process of identifying and analyzing the important of organizational and individual performance gaps, planning for future performance improvement, designing and developing cost effective and ethically justifiable interventions, and evaluating the financial and nonfinancial results
- 24. Injuries, large or small, caused by the use of a drug; can be as harmless as a drug rash or as serious as death from an overdose
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- 1. Independent not for profit organization that evaluated and accredits more than 22,000 healthcare organizations and programs in the United States and is the nation's primary standard setting and accrediting body in healthcare
- 2. Formal organization of physicians authorized to admit and attend to patients within a hospital
- 3. Professional who has demonstrated skill and knowledge in asset management, financial management, operations management, human resource management, and communication and information management in radiology
- 5. System of development in the workplace for daily improving performance at every level in every operational process by focusing on meeting or exceeding customer expectations
- 7. Physician responsible of a hospital department or service; also responsible for providing input regarding policies and procedures and day to day operations of the department
- 9. Failure to complete a planned action as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim
- 12. Organization of a hospital or medical clinic that provides diagnostic imaging through medical technologies.
- 13. A professional organization representing medical imaging management at all levels
- 16. Statement of an organization that summarizes its intent to provide service in terms of the services it offers, the intended recipients of services, and a description of the level of cost
- 18. Person appointed by the board of directors who has full accountability for the entire hospital or healthcare organization
- 19. Physician responsible for overseeing a component or sub department of a hospital service
- 20. Federal agency that enforces standards for safety in the workplace, conducts inspections, and directs determination of fines for noncompliance with policies and regulations