20 Terms
Contributors in Hospitals
Hospitals
Skilled nursing or other long-term care unit
Health care; Hospitals
Offers sub-acute and long-term care for those requiring post-hospitalization or residential options. Skilled nursing facilities provide long-term and chronic care for patients unable to care for ...
Sleep lab department
Health care; Hospitals
Provides evaluation, testing, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders.
Social services
Health care; Hospitals
Provides coping assistance with the psychological, social, environmental, and financial difficulties that may arise during a patient’s hospitalization.
Speech therapy services
Health care; Hospitals
Helps individuals overcome speech defects using a variety of methods.
Sports medicine department
Health care; Hospitals
Prevention, treatment, and study of injuries received during a patient’s participation in sports.
Sterotactic radiosurgery
Health care; Hospitals
Stereotactic radiosurgery is a radiotherapy modality that delivers a high dosage of radiation to a discrete treatment area in as few as one treatment session. Includes gamma knife, cyberknife, etc.
Swing bed services
Health care; Hospitals
A federally-approved programme for small rural hospitals. Designed to be temporary with a patient’s discharge options explored as an ongoing process with family, physicians, and social workers.
