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Glossary of Nursing Home Abuse Law Terms

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Health Care Financing Administration: The federal agency responsible for overseeing Medicare and Medicaid programs and assessing the quality of health care facilities and services and taking appropriate enforcement actions.

Health-Care Provider: A person trained and licensed to give health care. A health-care provider is also a place licensed to provide health care. Examples include doctors, nurses, and nursing homes.

Homebound: When a person is generally unable to leave home due to health problems.

Home Health Care: Generally, skilled nursing care that a person receives in his or her home for the treatment of an illness or injury.

Hospice: A place where the terminally ill patients are cared for.