Facility Definitions

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All
Includes all Facility types.
 
Home Care Services
An agency that provides nursing and health services to an individual in the home.  The types of
facilities included in this category are:  Durable Medical Equipment, Home Health Services, Hospitals,
Infusion Therapy, Laboratory Services, Outpatient Services, Radiology/Imaging/Mammography
Services, and Specialty Hospitals. .
 
Imaging Services
A facility that performs diagnostic tests using x-rays, radio-isotopes, ultrasound or magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI).  The types of facilities included in this category are: Hospitals,
Imaging Services (CT Scan/MRI Only), Radiology/Imaging/Mammography, and
Specialty Diagnostic Services.
 
Hospital
A facility for the short-term treatment of relatively severe illness.
 
Adult Day Care Facility
A daytime community-based program for functionally impaired adults that
provides a variety of health, social, and related support services in a protective
setting.
 
Alternative Care Facility
A facility that provides care and social interaction to patients in a homelike
environment.
 
Ambulance/Air Transportation
Transportation by ambulance or air.
 
Ambulatory Surgery Center
A facility where operative procedures are performed and patients are released
the same day.
 
Dialysis Services
A facility that provides a medical procedure that uses a machine to filter
waste products from the bloodstream and restore the blood's normal constituents.
 
Durable Medical Equipment
A facility that sells or rents medical equipment that is placed in the home of a
patient to facilitate treatment and/or rehabilitation.
 
Hearing Services
An agency that provides assistance to patients who have minor to severe hearing impairment.
 
Home Health Services
An agency that provides nursing and health services to an individual in the home.
 
Hospice
A service that provides in-home care or nursing care at a skilled nursing facility,
as well as patient and family counseling, for the purpose of providing respite care
for the terminally ill.
 
Imaging Svc (CT Scan, MRI only)
A facility that performs diagnostic tests using Computed Tomography (CT) or
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) only.
 
Infusion Therapy
An agency that provides infusion therapy to an individual in an outpatient or
home setting. Infusion is the therapeutic introduction of a fluid other than blood
into a vein.
 
Laboratory Services
A place equipped for examination of materials derived from the human body for
the purpose of providing information for diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease.
 
Medical/Rural Health Clinic
A public or private hospital, clinic, or physician practice designated by the federal government
as being in compliance with the Rural Health Clinics Act (Public Law 95-210). The practice must be
located in a Medically Underserved Area (MUA) or a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA),
and use physician assistants and/or nurse practitioners to deliver services.
 
Mental Health/Substance Abuse Facility
A facility that provides evaluation, treatment and prevention of emotional and
mental illness, or a program for the chemically dependent.
 
Occupational Medicine
A facility that provides the treatment of disease and injury and the promotion of
health in people's work environments.
 
Orthotics and Prosthetics
A facility that provides devices, such as artificial limbs and braces, that replace
or augment missing or non-functioning body parts.
 
Outpatient Services
A facility that offers services that do not require an overnight stay.
 
Pain Management
A facility that provides surgeries, procedures, or other treatments designed to
reduce pain and help patients achieve a reasonable quality of life and ability to
function.
 
Physical Therapy
A facility that specializes in the evaluation and treatment of specific patient abilities
and disabilities, both mental and physical.
 
Primary Care Clinic
A clinic that provides a basic spectrum of general care.
 
Radiology/Imaging/Mammography
A facility that performs diagnostic tests using x-rays, radio-isotopes, ultrasound
or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
 
Rehabilitation Services
A facility that provides a broad spectrum of services designed to provide therapies to
improve weak muscles, speech, and functions of daily living following injury, stroke or surgery.
 
Skilled Nursing (Free Standing)
A patient care center that provides rehabilitative services and 24-hour nursing for convalescent patients.
 
Sleep Disorder Programs
A clinic concerned with the study and treatment of sleep-wake disorders such as hypersomnia,
insomnia, parasomnias and disorders of the sleep-wake schedule.
 
Specialty Diagnostic Services
A facility that performs special diagnostic tests that would not typically be handled
at general imaging centers.
 
Specialty Hospital
A facility that specializes in the treatment of patients with specific illnesses or
diseases of a relatively severe nature, not general medical or surgical conditions.
 
Urgent/Emergent Care
A facility where urgent/emergency care is performed on an outpatient
basis (patients are treated and released the same day).


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