Home Health Care Glossary
This glossary is to help our home health care community better understand the terms used in relation to care. Please book mark this page for future reference or download our printable version HERE.
A
- Activity of Daily Living (ADL)
- Adult nursing
- Advance directives
- Ambulation
- Assistive Care
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
B
C
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Care management
- Caregiver (Family)
- Caregivers (Professional)
- Case management
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Certificate of Need (CON)
- Certified Intake Specialist (CIS)
- Certified rehabilitation registered nurse (CRRN)
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Client
- Colostomy
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
- Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP)
D
E
F
G
H
- Habilitation
- Health care power of attorney
- Health insurance exchange
- Homebound
- Home health
- Home Health Aide (HHA)
- Home health aide services
- Home health care
- Home infusion
- Homemaker service
- Hospice
I
J
K
L
- Legislative Advocacy Center
- Licensure
- Limitations
- Live-in care
- Living trust
- Living will
- Long-term care
- Long-term home care
- Long-term Care Insurance (LTC)
M
- Managed Care
- Mandate
- Medicaid
- Medical IRAs
- Medical social work (MSW)
- Medical supplies
- Medically necessary
- Medicare
- Medicare Advantage Plan (also called Medicare Part C)
- Medicare Part A
- Medicare Part B
- Member
N
- National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC)
- National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- Nasogastric tube (NG Tube)
- Non-ambulatory
- Nurse Aide (also known as home health aide)
- Nursing home
- Nurse practitioner
O
- Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)
- Observed tasks of daily living (OADL)
- Occupational therapy (OT)
- Outcomes
P
- Palliative care
- Para-transit services
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
- Payor
- Pediatrics
- Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)
- Physical Therapy (PT)
- Plan of care
- Point of Service (POS) Plans
- Portability
- Pre-authorization
- Pre-existing condition
- Preventive services
- Private Pay
- Provider
Q
- Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)
- Qualified Individual (QI) Program
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program (QMB)
R
S
- Safety Committee
- Simulation (SIM) Training Lab
- Skills lab
- Skilled nursing care
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF)
- Specialty Practice
- Speech language pathology (SLP)
