Category: F

A “picture” of the financial condition of an institution, which consists of a “balance sheet” and an “income and expense statement.”  

A form of association between organizations which are independent but which delegate certain common functions to a central body. The United States is a federation. There is increasing interest in forming local federations among health care providers and agencies in order to allow organizations and institutions to retain their identities and yet to avoid duplication…

A family residence which provides rest home care to a limited number of persons. Usually the number of persons who can be cared for is stipulated by law or regulations as, for example, six or fewer (a greater number of persons turns the facility into a “rest home” and places it under rest home licensure…

A family-centered unit in the hospital where mothers with normal pregnancies may, if they wish, deliver their babies in a hospital, but in a homelike environment.  

A generic term covering all religious organizations. Such organizations, which exist in all communities, have certain common features: they address sickness and health through education and service, they believe in feeding die hungry, clothing the naked, and healing the sick. Because of these attributes, faith organizations often provide effective and potent vehicles for health efforts.…

A health care facility, which is any institution organized to provide ambulatory, inpatient, residential, or other health care.  

Skills necessary to everyday life, a term especially used in special education to identify skills that a child with handicaps must learn or forever be dependent on others to perform, such as brushing teeth or writing a check; sometimes called survival skills. A school program that focuses on such skills may be called a functional…

A type of curriculum that focuses on teaching self-help skills for everyday life, aiming to increase the independence of students with severe handicaps; also called an adapted or differential curriculum.  

In relation to birth, a child who is born at the completion of gestation and so has had the normal amount of time to develop in the uterus, as opposed to a premature child, who is born without having the full nine months (medically, 40 weeks) to develop. A complete pregnancy of forty weeks. In…

A type of fetal presentation in which the legs are straight and bent upward so that the feet are near the shoulder. Position of the fetus within the mother’s uterus in which the buttocks present at the maternal pelvic outlet, not the head as is normal for delivery.