Health Care Providers

Types of Health Care providers

• Volunteer or Non Profit Agencies
• Supported by donations, membership fees, fundraisers, federal and state grants
• Provide health services, research, and education at the national, state, and local level
• Examples
• American Heart Association
• American Red Cross
• American Diabetes Association
• American Cancer Society

Types of Health Care providers

• Hospitals
• 1. Large & complex
• Offer wide range of services
• Diagnostic, treatment, education, research
• Ex: Baylor Medical Center of Grapevine
• 2. Small
• Serve a small community with basic needs
• Ex: Azle Community Hospital
• 3. Specialty
• Specific to one major need
• Ex: Northeast Cook Children’s Hospital, cancer hospital, outpatient surgery center
• Classifications – depend on the source of income
• Private or proprietary (for profit)
• Religious
• Non-Profit or Voluntary
• Government