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Average Length of Stay (ALOS)

This refers to how long, on average, patients are inpatients in a hospital. This can sometimes be used as a measure of efficiency, but it is not necessarily correlated with quality of care.

Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)

A health care setting that meets requirements under HHS to receive additional reimbursement to carry out their mission of providing primary care services to underserved…