Purchase Solution

Acute care and non-acute care facilities

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Please help answer the following problem:

Identify an acute care facility and a non-acute health care facility. Imagine you are the health information management professional at each facility and discuss the challenges they feel they face in collecting data, the type of data they are responsible for collecting, what their job duties are, and what type of patients they provide care to.

Please provide some references so I can follow up, thanks

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution identifies an acute care facility and a non-acute health care facility and discusses the challenges they face in collecting data, the type of data they are responsible for collecting, what their job duties are, and what type of patients they provide care to.

Solution Preview

http://www.ache.org/carsvcs/CareerOverviews/acutecare.cfm

http://www.medassets.com/non-acute-care

Acute care facilities provide care for patients that have experienced unexpected injuries and illnesses and can be found in general or specialty hospital settings providing care for patients sustaining life-threatening injuries or deteriorating health statuses because of health conditions. These centers assist with treatment and care for patients wherein the ...

Solution provided by:
Stephen Washington, MS
Education
  • BS, Sam Houston State University, 1903 University Avenue, Huntsville, Tx 77340
  • MS, Prairie View A&M University
Recent Feedback
  • "awesome"
  • "awesome"
  • "Awesome appreciate the assistance."
  • "Thanks awesome. more to follow"
  • "awesome, Thanks for the assistance"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Managed Care Organizations

This quiz will test the basics of managed care organizations. It is important to know how our health care delivery system operates through managed care.

Celiac Disease

This quiz will provide a brief introduction to Celiac Disease. Questions will focus on definitions and symptoms.

First Aid

Do you know how to provide first aid?

Test your health planning and program evaluation knowledge

Health planning and program evaluation is an important aspect of the Health Sciences' field. Organizations and communities must understand the needs of their audiences, and a way to obtain this datum is through proper design and assessment. This quiz will test your ability to understand the importance of planning and evaluation in the health sector.

Crohn's Disease

How much do you know about this condition?

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Challenges to Acute and Nonacute Care Facilities

    574030 Challenges to Acute and Nonacute Care Facilities Identify an acute care facility and a non-acute health care facility in your area.

  • Differences Between Nursing Home Facilities and Acute Care Hospitals

    Even in Medicare, the cost of free-standing SNF (Skilled Nursing Facilities) care is an average of 58 percent less than in an acute-based setting." (5) http://www.rai.to/subacute.htm Nursing homes provide both non-medical care and medical care as

  • Health Care Industry Background

    RESPONSE: The organization's industry of Acute Care facilities has a fairly long history. The term acute care often refers to hospitals, emergency rooms and ambulatory patient clinics.

  • Differences Between Nursing Homes and Acute Care Hospitals

    Costs of acute care hospitals (in Canada) are covered 100% by health care whereas LTC facilities are simply given a stipend of merely dollars per resident per day.

  • Clinical Services

    Acute care hospital and departmental management often take up line management on staff motivation and compliance.

  • Health care delivery systems

    Long term care delivery systems (in addition to acute care delivery systems) involve both long term care facilities and Non-Medicaid community care i.e. in-home services for the elderly, community services for the elderly, home-delivered meals, independent

  • Comparing a Nursing Home and an Acute Care Hospital

    Many facilities specialize in certain types of care. For example, a Nursing and Rehabilitation Center may offer complex medical and rehabilitation services called sub acute care.

  • Healthcare Regulations

    However acute care facilities are also regulated, even though in comparison, long-term care has the characteristics that require regulating to a higher degree in order to provide quality care to patients in many settings and situations for longer periods

  • The Inpatient Prospective Payment System

    Hospitals actually contract with Medicare to furnish acute hospital inpatient care and agree to accept predetermined acute inpatient prospective payment system rates as full payment.

View More Related Solutions