Which term is a health-care center specializing in outpatient services?

• A. Assisted living facility
• B. Airborne
• C. Ambulatory care facility
• D. Barrier

Answer: (C)

This item tests your ability to identify health-care settings by how care is delivered and whether patients stay overnight. An ambulatory care facility is the term for a health-care center that specializes in outpatient services, meaning patients come in for evaluation or treatment and leave the same day without being admitted. These facilities include clinics, urgent care centers, doctor’s offices, and ambulatory surgery centers where procedures are completed in one visit.

The other options don’t describe outpatient medical centers: an assisted living facility is a residential setting focused on daily living assistance rather than medical care delivered and concluded in a single visit; the terms airborne and barrier refer to infection-control concepts (transmission mode and protective measures), not types of care facilities.