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Hospitalization for an ambulatory care sensitive conditions is considered to be a measure of access to appropriate primary health care, including preventive and disease management services. While not all admissions for these conditions are avoidable, appropriate ambulatory care could help prevent their onset, control an acute episode, or manage ...
Ambulatory health care settings: primarily provides outpatient services at facilities such as doctors' offices, outpatient clinics and clinical laboratories. Nursing and residential care facilities: provides residential care, such as community care for the elderly or mental health and substance abuse facilities. Social Assistance: provides ...
A school nurse works with school-aged children in the educational setting. Students experiencing illness or injury during the school day often report to the school nurse for assessment. Administering routine medications, caring for a child with a virus, or stabilizing a child until emergency services arrive after a more serious injury may all ...
During each encounter, the ambulatory care registered nurse focuses on patient safety and the quality of nursing care by applying appropriate nursing interventions, such as identifying and clarifying patient needs, performing procedures, conducting health education, promoting patient advocacy, coordinating nursing and other health services ...
School-based health and nutrition services are provided through the school system to improve the health and well-being of children and in some cases whole families and the broader community. These services have been developed in different ways around the globe, but the fundamentals are constant: the early detection, correction, prevention or ...
Medicaid paperwork issues caused by the unwinding process have left families scrambling to get care for children with chronic conditions.
An abortion clinic is a medical facility providing abortion services to women. An ambulatory surgery clinic offers outpatient or same day surgery services, usually for surgical procedures less complicated than those requiring hospitalization. An ultrasound clinic offers medical ultrasound investigations for patients. An ultrasound clinic is ...
Ambulatory patient services. [outpatient care] Emergency services. Hospitalization. [inpatient care] Maternity and newborn care; Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment. Prescription drugs. Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices. Laboratory services; Preventive and wellness services ...