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Unit 7

Assignment 1

Outpatient care is a healthcare treatment that does not require a patient to stay in the hospital overnight. Ambulatory care is health care services that are on an outpatient basis and one can receive outside the hospital. Ambulatory services are such as observation, diagnosis, consultation, intervention and rehabilitation services.

The difference between outpatient and ambulatory care is that in the case of the ambulatory care, the patient can walk and in the situation of outpatient, the patient goes in for treatment and occupies for some time the hospital bed. Another difference is that in the case of ambulatory care, the patient does not spend the night and in the situation of outpatient, the patient goes to the hospital, and admission is not necessary (Sutton, 2008).

The changes that have affected the balance between inpatient and outpatient services are such as reimbursement, technological factors, social factors, utilization control factors. Reimbursement: it is cheaper and faster to deal with outpatient than with inpatient care. Technological factors have allowed surgeries to happen in the outpatient care. Social factors are such as the preference of patient to want home health care and health services from community-based settings. Utilization control factors are such as the mandates of insurance that affect the provision of healthcare.

Assignment 2

Outpatient care is a component of the business model because it assists healthcare facilities to increase utilization of health care services by expanding outpatient outlets. It also helps to deal with competition from other healthcare providers. Another reason why it is component is that there are changes in reimbursement on health services.

Some of the changes that lead to a decrease in inpatient occupation are such as the growth of outpatient settings, advantages the hospitals with outpatient services get and benefits that the hospital physicians and patients get. The increase of outpatient setting is because there has been development in technology to allow outpatient care, an increase of patient’s preference to outpatient setting and changes in reimbursement. The hospitals also get many profits when they are dealing with outpatient services and the physicians’ benefit as they get to operate at lower costs. Patients also get the benefit of getting routine health care services at one place (Sutton, 2008).

Assignment 3

Mobile health care services are the transportation of medical services to patients who live in small towns or rural areas. The kind of services provided is such as magnetic resonance imaging, screening for blood pressure and cholesterol, and diagnostic services like MRI. The mobile units also tend to promote health education. They role in the health care system is providing an efficient and convenient means of routine healthcare services.

Assignment 4

Public health is a science that deals with protecting and improving healthcare lifestyle for the entire population. The scope of public health ambulatory services is the there are lower rates of hospitalization that has an association with receiving primary care. The services are such as case management that provides coordinated physicians and referrals and adult day care that compliments the care a family member should be providing (Sutton, 2008).

Assignment 5

Man public and voluntary outpatient clinics are health care facilities that receive support from grant funding. The challenge is that they should offer to assist anyone seeking medical attention whether the patient is uninsured and cannot afford the facilities. It is a problem because it is a law put in by the government.

Assignment 6

It is sad to know that some healthcare facilities are closing down to changes that are present in the environment. As a hospital that provides health services, it should find a way to be flexible and deal with such changes. Most facilities have found out is much cheaper to come together and offer outpatient service rather than inpatient services. It is because it lowers costs and the hospital can get more revenue.

To be able to become a healthcare facility that is unmarginalized by the environment, the facility, Cleveland Clinic has sought out new ways to receive reimbursement such as teaming up with an insurer like Medicare. It is also trying to come up with more methods to make healthcare facilities of low costs and push health services to become better (Reed Abelson, 2015).

Assignment 7

Ambulatory care is therapeutic and diagnostic services that walking patients receive. Other services that the care provides are such as diagnosis, consultations, treatment and rehabilitation services.

Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) is a process that is systematic that identifies and addresses health problems of a specified population.

Complementary and alternative medicine is a different category of medicine different and fall outside conventional medicine that physicians use.

Gatekeeping a situation where a health care professional meets the patient and control his/her entry to the healthcare system.

Hospice is a facility that provides a caring environment for the mentally ill. The environment should meet the physical and emotional needs of the patient.

Outpatient services are medical services that are done in a medical center and do not require the patient to spend the night.

Palliative care is medical care provided to patients with severe illness. The care aims to relieve stress and the symptoms of the disease.

Secondary care is a healthcare service that a patient receives after primary care. The health specialist with expertise on the patient’s issues gives the care. The care has services such as psychology or psychiatry.

Surgi- Centers are health care facilities that provide surgical care on the same day. The surgical care is such as diagnostic and preventive procedures.

Tertiary care in the care a patient is to receive when he/she gets hospital admission. Professionals such as surgeons provide the care. It carries out an investigation of the illness and for the treatment of the patient.

Urgent care centers are setting that assist patients with injuries that are not fatal and do not require an ER visit.

Walk in Clinic is a facility where patients can get a variety of medical services. Healthcare professionals practicing together admit the patients for treatment.

References

Reed Abelson (2015). Cleveland Clinic Grapples With Changes in Health Care. The New York Times

Sutton, A. L. (2008). Surgery sourcebook: Basic consumer health information about common inpatient and outpatient surgeries. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics.