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Department executive. Ngozi O. Ezike, MD [1], Director of Public Health. Website. dph .illinois .gov. The Illinois Department of Public Health ( IDPH) is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government that prevents and controls disease and injury, regulates medical practitioners, and promotes sanitation. [4]
POLST ( Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with the severely ill and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. [1] POLST began in Oregon in 1991 and currently exists in 46 states ...
Emergency Medical Technician II (EMT-II) (Analogous to EMT-I/85) Emergency Medical Technician III (EMT-III) (Analogous to AEMT/85) Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) (Established in 2015, follows and is certified via the NREMT testing process) Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic (MICP) (Analogous to Paramedic via NREMT)
Health professional. A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) [1] is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a nurse, physician (such as family physician, internist, obstetrician, psychiatrist, radiologist ...
A National Provider Identifier ( NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...
Allied health professions (AHPs) are a group of health care professions that provide a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic, and support services in connection with health care, and which are distinct from the fields of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy. In providing care as an AHP, their work may support non-AHP health care ...
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Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) is a state agency of Iowa focusing on public health. It is headquartered in the Lucas State Office Building in Des Moines . [1]