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- 1. A facility that provides medical services to the general population in the form of emergency care, critical care, intensive care, and various types of patient care.
- 3. Simplest business structure available for a provider practice with the practice owned and managed by one physician.
- 5. A type of long-term care facility providing subacute nursing care.
- 9. An arrangement where multiple physicians share ownership of the practice.
- 10. A healthcare facility that provides care on an inpatient basis to patients who are chronically ill and need extended services or treatments.
- 12. An ambulatory setting providing general general or specialized care, sometimes on a walk-in basis.
- 13. Walk-in clinic that provides services for patients who need immediate medical care but whose injuries or illnesses are not serious enough to be seen in an emergency department.
- 14. Healthcare services provided in the patient’s home.
- 15. Inpatient healthcare for severe illnesses or injuries requiring a stay in a facility where the average stay is 30 days or less.
- 17. An ambulatory care setting served by an individual or group of primary care providers.
- 18. A healthcare facility that provides long-term care most often to developmentally disabled patients who do not require the degree of medical care given at a hospital or subacute healthcare facility.
- 20. A walk-in clinic that if offered onsite at a retail store such as a large department store or pharmacy, equipped to treat uncomplicated, minor illnesses.
- 22. The first and most basic level of treatment for injury or illness, serving as the entry point for healthcare consumers into the healthcare delivery system.
- 24. A primary care provider who sees the patient first to control access to other parts of the healthcare delivery system.
Down
- 2. A patient who receives treatment during a visit on a single day.
- 4. Noncurative care delivered to patients at the end of their lives.
- 6. A medical treatment to ease a patient’s pain or reduce symptoms but that is not intended to cure a disease or disorder.
- 7. A medical practice ownership where two physicians own the medical practice, often formed among physicians of the same specialty.
- 8. Medical services provided to a patient admitted to a facility at least overnight by order of a physician.
- 11. A patient admitted to a facility at least overnight by order of a physician.
- 16. An episode of service to a patient in an outpatient setting, also called an encounter.
- 19. Outpatient healthcare provided to patients who arrive at the facility, receive treatment, and leave on the same day.
- 21. An episode of service to a patient in an outpatient setting.
- 23. A surgical facility that performs procedures on patients who are not admitted to a hospital for recovery or assisted living facility.