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Health Care Delivery in the United States Questions
Question 1 of 5
Which health care provider organization is seeing an increase in the demand for their services?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Hospital stays have shortened and patients who are admitted are more acutely ill and require more intensive care. Consequently, decreased hospital stays result in more home care admissions and more discharges to long-term care facilities for short-term recovery and rehabilitation. Hospice services and physician practices have not been as impacted as greatly by this shift in where care is provided.
Question 2 of 5
Which best describes the effect of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry report (1999)?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The report had a major impact in that it stimulated a series of more in-depth explorations of the health care delivery system, which resulted in a series of reports developed by the Institute of Medicine called the Quality Chasm Series. These reports then caused several other movements within the health care system.
Question 3 of 5
Which best describes one of the current goals for the HHS?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The HHS goals for 2015-2018 are: strengthen health care; advance scientific knowledge and innovation; advance health, safety, and well-being of the American people; and ensure the efficiency, transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of HHS programs. The goals do not address nurse-patient staffing ratios, medical malpractice, or monitoring for fraud and abuse.
Question 4 of 5
Who primarily provides care for military personnel, their families, and veterans, as well as Native Americans?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The federal government is responsible for the health care of specified populations including military personnel, their families, and veterans. The federal government also is responsible for health care for Native Americans. Local health departments and state health departments are not the primary provider of care for these populations. Regional health districts are not used to provide care for these populations.
Question 5 of 5
Which accurately describes the impact that the ACA had on expanding Medicaid?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: One of the major provisions of the ACA resulting in large numbers of Americans receiving health care coverage was through the expansion of Medicaid; however, each state was allowed to determine whether they would accept this expansion. Ultimately, 31 states and the District of Columbia elected to extend Medicaid coverage through the ACA and 19 chose not to.