Common Hospital Abbreviations

UR - Utilization Review

CVA - Cerebrovascular Accident (stroke)

HHA - Home Health Aide (home care)

PCH - Personal Care Home

FCH - Foster Care Home

n.h. - nuring home

M/A - medical assistance

php - post-hospital plans

d/c - discharge or discon't

w/c - wheelchair

f/a - financial ass't

H.C. - Home care

D.S.S. - Dept. of Social Services

APS - Adult Protective Services

SCH - Sheltered Care Home

pp - private pay

ADL - activities of daily living

X - time

GES - Geriatric Evaluation Service

VA - Veterans Administration

MOW - Meals on wheels

PT - Physical Therapy

OT - Occupational Therapy

RT - Recreational Therapy

ST - Speech Thereapy

NG & PEG - Tube feeding (nasto gastric/nose or peritoneal/belly)

NHP - Nursing home placement

CPS - Child Protective Services

ECU/ECF - Extended Care Unit/Extended Care Facility

HOH - Hard of Hearing

MR - Mental Retardation

U/A - urinalsysis

BSC - bedside commode

POA - power of attorney

UTO - unable to obtain

c/o - complains of

H/O - history of

R/O - rule out

DJD - dejenerative joint disease

HR - hip replacement

KR - knee replacement

L - left

R - right

I - independent

D - dependent

S/P - status post

CABG - coronary artery bypass grafting (open heart surgery)

fx - fracture

MI - myocardialinfarction (heart attack)

GI - gastro intestinal

DM - diabetes mellitus

IDDM - insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

NIDDM - non-insulin dep. DM

DVT - deep vein thrombosis (blood clot)

Ca - cancer

CHF - congestive heart failure

CAD - coronary artery disease

COPD - chronic obstruvive pulminary disease

VRE - (positive vancomycin resistant)

MRSA - (postive methocillian resistant staph aeurosis)

C-Diff - diarrhea w/ a bug

Weight bearing

FWB - full weight bearing/100% body weight

WBAT - weight bearing as tolerated as much weight as patient can tolerate

PWB - partial weight bearing up to 50% of weight

TDWB - touch down weight bearing toe touch weight bearing/patient is allowed to rest toes on the floor for balance but no or slight weight bearing is allowed

NWB - non-weight bearing/patient is not to put foot on floor