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HSA 545 Midterm Exam – Question and Answers

1. One of the main characteristics of long-term care services requires that services be
2. Which of the following patients is likely to require long-term care for less than 90 days?
3. Long-term care is referred to as short-term when it is needed for
4. Which of the following is not an activity of daily living (ADL)?
5. Which of the following is true about long-term care policy in the United States?
6. What brought an end to the poorhouse system in the United States?
7. Which of the following was instrumental in opposing the alleged deregulation of nursing homes during the Reagan presidency (1980s)?
8. Who is the largest payer for home health services?
9. What category of service is provided in adult foster care homes?
10. Which of the following types of facilities has been growing at a faster rate than all others?
11. Most of the nursing home beds in the United States are operated by
12. The procedures for monitoring outputs, comparison of outputs with preset standards, evaluation of discrepancies between outputs and standards, and taking corrective action when necessary are collectively referred to as
13. Which of the following is an example of a stakeholder?
14. According to the SWOT model, if an organization identifies threats and has internal weaknesses, the appropriate strategy is to
15. A nursing facility builds its reputation and image by
16. What is strategy?
17. When a patient’s family takes legal action against a nursing home, the nursing home corporation is referred to as the
18. As a general rule, if a nurse records in a patient’s medical record that a prescribed treatment was given when in fact it was not given, who would be liable?
19. Who issues a license to operate a nursing facility?
20. If a state legislature passes a new law that modifies the methodology for Medicaid reimbursement, this law would be classified as
21. In terms of severity and scope of deficiencies, what is the main determining factor for the facility to be deemed in substantial compliance?
22. The facility’s allegation of compliance with regulatory standards in response to cited deficiencies is called a
23. A facility faces denial of payment for new admissions when it fails to achieve substantial compliance within __________ after the citation of deficiencies.
24. In new construction, a patient must be able to exit the building without having to walk more than __________ feet.
25. Which of the following categories of people is Medicare not specifically designed to cover?
26. A Medicare benefit period ends:
27. What are blocking routines?
28. Of the three main components of person-centered care, (1) overarching human factors, (2) socio-residential factors, and (3) clinical factors, which one applies to privacy of person?
29. Preadmission Screening and Resident Review applies to
30. At which stage of dementia are you likely to observe long-term memory loss?