Home Health Care
Health care services provided in a patient’s home to promote, maintain, or restore health or lessen the effects of illness and disability.
Goals of Care Conversation
Discussions between patients, their families, and healthcare providers to establish and align treatment plans with the patient’s values and preferences.
Family-Centered Care
An approach to healthcare that recognizes a patient functions within, and depends on, a family unit – whatever form that family takes. It also recognizes that family members also have a share in the patient’s illness burden, and have a valuable role to play in supporting and sustaining the patient.
Curative Care
Care that treats or cures the disease.
Cultural Competence
The ability of healthcare providers to recognize the unique cultural and linguistic needs of a patient, and to adapt to meet them.
Case Management
A collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates the options and services required to meet a patient’s health needs.
Caregiver
Anyone who provides care for another person in need, such as a child, aging parent, or patient.
Sickle Cell Disease
A genetic disorder that causes abnormal hemoglobin, resulting in some red blood cells assuming an abnormal sickle shape.
Thalassemia
A blood disorder involving less than normal amounts of an oxygen-carrying protein.
Polycythemia Vera
A type of blood cancer that causes the bone marrow to make too many red blood cells.
