Hospitals - facilities (places designed or built to serve a special function) where patients are hospitalized for a short/ long time., Convalescent Care facilities - provide care for elderly people or surgical patients who require nursing services or personal care., rehabilitation centers - provide care to patients with physical or mental disabilities., Independent Living facilities - allow an individual, who can care for himself or herself, to rent or purchase an apartment., Clinics or offices - vary in size from small to large; employ doctors and other health, Ambulatory Care facilities - facilities have several physicians with different specialties who combine their practices to meet the needs of many patients., Optical centers - centers may be individually owned by an ophthalmologist or optometrist or by part of a larger chain of stores., Hospice - provides care for the terminally ill, Mental health facilities - provide care to patients with mental disorders and diseases., Genetic counseling centers - work with couples or individuals concerning pregnancy., Industrial health care centers - occupational health clinics; provide health care for employees of the industry or business, School health services - provide emergency care services for victims of accidents and sudden illness., World Health Organization (WHO), - Nations, compile statistics and information on disease; publish health information; and investigate and address health problems throughout the world, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS),  - deal with health problems exclusively in the United States., National Institutes of Health (NIH)  - is an agency involved with research on dis-, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - an agency concerned with the causes, spread, and cocontrol of diseases., Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - an agency responsible for regulating food and drug products sold to the public., Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), - researches the quality of health care delivery and identifies the standards of treatment to be provided by health care facilities., Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - establishes and enforces standards that protect U.S. workers from job-related injuries and illnesses., Veterans’ Administration - provides hospital and other health care to U.S. veterans who served in the armed forces., nonprofit health care agencies are funded by - donations, gifts, membership fees, fundraisers, and endowments, examples of national nonprofit health care agencies - American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Mission of voluntary/nonprofit agencies - studies the disease, provides funding to encourage research directed at curing or treating the disease, and promotes public education., government agencies are funded by - government/ tax payers money, private facilities are funded by - private owner, company, patients,

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