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1)What is the difference between inpatient and outpatient services?       As hospitals evolved from rudimentary custodial and quarantine facilities to their current state, how did their purpose and function change? What were the main factors responsible for the growth of hospitals until the latter part of the 20th century? Name the three main forces that have been responsible for hospital downsizing

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1)What is the difference between inpatient and outpatient services?

 

 

 

2. As hospitals evolved from rudimentary custodial and quarantine facilities to their current state, how did their purpose and function change?
3. What were the main factors responsible for the growth of hospitals until the latter part of the 20th century?
4. Name the three main forces that have been responsible for hospital downsizing. How have each of these forces been responsible for the decline in inpatient hospital utilization?
5. What is a voluntary hospital? Explain. How did voluntary hospitals evolve in the United States?
6. Discuss the role of government in the growth, as well as the decline, of hospitals in the United States.
7. What are inpatient days? What is the significance of this measure?
8. How does hospital utilization vary according to a person’s age, gender, and race?
9. Discuss the different types of public hospitals and the roles they play in the delivery of healthcare services in the United States.
10. What are some of the differences between private nonprofit and for-profit hospitals?
11. What is a long-term care hospital (LTCH)? What role does it play in health care delivery in the United States?

12. Why have physicians developed their own specialty hospitals? What legal issues can arise when physicians have an ownership interest in a hospital?

13. What criteria does Medicare use to classify a hospital as a rehabilitation hospital?

 

14. How do you differentiate between a community hospital and a non-community hospital?

 

 

15. What is a Critical Access Hospital (CAH)? Why was this designation created?

    16. What are some of the main differences between teaching and nonteaching hospitals?

17. Can church-affiliated hospitals be classified as voluntary hospitals? Explain.

18. Discuss some of the issues relative to the tax-exempt status of nonprofit hospitals.

19.  Why are hospitals among the most complex organizations to manage?

20.  Discuss the governance of a modern hospital.

21. In the context of hospitals, what is the difference between licensure, certification, and accreditation?

22. What can a hospital do to address some of the difficult ethical problems relative to end-of-life treatment?