Question

1. Identify and describe three different types of hospital ownership?

2. What are the differences between inpatient and outpatient services? (2 points)

Answer 1

A healthcare or hospital system is a group of hospitals or facilities that work together to deliver services to their communities.

The hospital ownership is basically divide into 3 types

a) Non-profit ( private) hospitals

b) For-profit hospitals and

c) Government owned ( non-federal)hospitals.

NON-PROFIT HOSPITALS:

a) Two-thirds of the hospitals in the United States are considered under this hospital group, the rest split into other 2 groups.

b) This hospital system do not have any shareholders who receive excess money raised by performing procedure.

c) They are often linked to community hospitals and may also be linked with religious denomination.

d) the main aim of this hospital type is to provide care to the community based people in the United States.

e)Not-for profit hospitals are also subjected to different legal rules and benefits from certain tax breaks.

FOR-PROFIT HOSPITALS:

a) For-profit hospitals are investor-owned facilities ( the profits hospitals earn from procedures directly go to the shareholders).

b) It is owned by individuals, partnerships, or corporations for profit

GOVERNMENT-OWNED HOSPITALS:

a) operated by the United States Government

b) Tax exemptions present

c) This type of hospitals offers basic types of services, hire staff with similar levels of training, operate under the same rules and regulations and accept their services related health insurances.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT SERVICES:

INPATIENT SERVICES requires the patient to be admitted in the hospital for close monitoring before, during and after the procedure whereas OUTPATIENT meaning the procedure does not require any hospital admission. It may also be performed outside the hospital.

An inpatient care needs hospital stay and maintains a records of care conducted on the patient by the hospital authorities while the Outpatient leaves the hospital after consulting with a doctor and no documentation is maintained.

The inpatient gets discharged only after he is cured of his diseases. The seriousness of the diseases is very high in this type of patients but in case outpatient services these process does not be valid because the injury is not very high.