Carisa Breakfield, CPM, LM, DSM, DNM

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• Midwife

  Other Service Providers

  Primary

  A Midwife is a trained professional with special expertise in supporting women to maintain a healthy pregnancy birth, offering expert individualized care, education, counseling, and support to a woman and her newborn throughout the childbearing cycle. A Midwife is a skilled and independent practitioner who has undergone formalized training. Midwives are not required to be nurses and may be trained via multiple routes of education (apprenticeship, workshop, formal classes, or programs, etc., usually a combination). The educational background requirements and licensing requirements vary by state. The Midwife may or may not be certified by a state or national organization.

  Taxonomy code 176B00000X

• Religious Nonmedical Health Care Institution

  Hospitals

  Furnishes only nonmedical nursing items and services to patients who choose to rely solely upon a religious method of healing, and for whom the acceptance of medical services would be inconsistent with their religious beliefs. Furnishes nonmedical items and services exclusively through nonmedical nursing personnel who are experienced in caring for the physical needs of nonmedical patients. For example, caring for the physical needs such as assistance with activities of daily living; assistance in moving, positioning, and ambulation; nutritional needs; and comfort and support measures. Furnishes nonmedical items and services to inpatients on a 24-hour basis. Does not furnish, on the basis of religious beliefs, through its personnel or otherwise, medical items and services (including any medical screening, examination, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, or the administration of drugs) for its patients.

  Taxonomy code 282J00000X

• Point of Service

  Managed Care Organizations

  This product may also be called an open-ended HMO and offers a transition product incorporating features of both HMOs and PPOs. Beneficiaries are enrolled in an HMO but have the option to go outside the networks for an additional cost.

  Taxonomy code 305S00000X

• Licensed Practical Nurse

  Nursing Service Providers

  An individual with post-high school vocational training and practical experience in the provision of nursing care at a level less than that required for certification as a Registered Nurse. Requirements for education, experience, licensure, and job responsibilities vary among the states.

  Taxonomy code 164W00000X

• Respite Care

  Respite Care Facility

  Definition to come.

  Taxonomy code 385H00000X

• Technician, Pathology

  Phlebotomy

  Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers

  Definition to come...

  Taxonomy code 246RP1900X