Category: H

Minute Gram-negative aerobic bacilli of the family of Bartonellaceae, infecting animals from insect vectors, with invasion of red cells.  

Identification and measurement of the viral or bacterial antibody content of an immune serum by its ability to neutralize the red cell agglutination effect of the homologous virus particles or bacteria.  

A hotel facility operated by a hospital, at hotel rates, for use by patients and their families before and after hospitalization. Such facilities are sometimes used for temporary care for elderly patients in order to give their family caregivers a rest. If separated from the hospital, the hotel-hospital often provides shuttle bus service.  

A period of stay in the hospital. Also, the placing of a patient in the hospital. The confinement of a patient in a hospital.  

The annual publication of the American Hospital Association (AHA) covering hospitals in the United States, and giving descriptions of each as well as tabulated data on hospitals.  

A specific model of physician-hospital organization (PHO) whose managed care plan (MCP) is emerging as an alternative to the typical health maintenance organization (HMO). To the extent that groups and members of the community work with the hospital and physicians in a collaborative effort to create the plan, it is better called a “community health…

A special political subdivision created solely to operate the hospital and other health care institutions.  

A program that assists with the physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological, social, financial, and legal needs of the dying patient and her family. The service may be provided in the patients home or in an institution (or division of an institution) set up for the purpose. Volunteers are integral parts of the staff. Bereavement care for…

Supportive services provided by an agency in order to permit an individual who is able to carry out the activities of daily living (ADL) to remain at home rather than being placed in an institution. The services are given by homemakers and home aides rather than by nurses. One benefit of having such trained assistance…

A corporation organized for the purpose of owning the stock of another corporation or corporations; or any company which owns such a large portion of the stock of a corporation that it controls that corporation.