Assignment

1. The National Medical Association was created in 1895 to represent:

a. African American physicians and health professionals in the US

b. hospital administrators

c. hospitals and health care networks

d. physicians who adopted a "whole person" approach to providing health care.

2. In 1910, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching issued the more than 180,000 General Electric employees had been provided with health care insurance:

a. more than 3,200 hospitals achieved approval under the Hospital Standardization Program

b. only 89 of the 692 hospitals surveyed met requirements of the American College of Surgeons' Minimum Standard for Hospitals

c. only one of the 155 medical schools in the US and Canada at that time provided an acceptable medical education

3. Diagnosis related groups (DRGs) classify inpatient hospital cases into groups that are expected to consume similar hospital resources. Which of the following is characteristic of inpatient care received under DRGs?

a. Inpatients are always transferred from the hospital to another inpatient care setting

b. Inpatients are discharged from the hospital once their acute phase of illness has resolved

c. Inpatients remain in the hospital until they are well enough to be discharged home

d. Transfer facilities that accept hospital inpatients typically provide high-cost care

4. Identify a major event in the history of evolution of health care delivery in the US then discuss how the event helped shape health care today. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

5. Identify the different types of long-term care facilities and discuss the length of stays requirements for long term facilities. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.