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Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention ACT

This Act prevents those with criminal histories from working within long-term care settings by created a comprehensive nationwide system of background checks.

patient-centered care

An approach that takes into consideration the patients’ cultural traditions, personal preferences and values, family situations and lifestyles. Responsibility for important aspects of self-care and monitoring is put in patients’ hands–along with the...

patient-centered medical home

An approach to providing comprehensive primary care for individuals through creating a setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians. This approach to care is aided by registries, information technology, health...

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