21 Different Types of Healthcare Facilities
Hospitals are just one of many places where you receive “healthcare.”
Addiction Treatment Centers: (also referred to as drug treatment centers, “rehab,” rehabilitation centers, and inpatient rehabilitation hospitals) healthcare facilities focused on drug rehabilitation, the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on addictive substances like alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs (cannabis, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, etc.).
Ambulatory Surgical Centers: (also referred to as ASC) healthcare facilities where patients get selected same-day surgeries (ophthalmology, pain, endoscopy, etc.) outside of the traditional hospital setting.
Birth Centers: a healthcare facility for childbirth where care is provided by nurse-midwives, midwives, and/or obstetricians for mothers in labor to make the birth easier outside of the traditional hospital setting.
Blood Banks: a healthcare facility where blood is gathered after blood donation and is stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusions.
Cancer Center: a healthcare facility that provides care for people with cancer but some only conduct laboratory research about cancer where an NCI Cancer Center has met standards for cancer prevention, clinical services, or research and a Comprehensive Cancer Cancer meets all three standards.
Clinical Research Center: (also referred to as CRC or General Clinical Research Center) healthcare facility to conduct clinical research such as performing clinical trials of various medical procedures.
Dental Clinic: any facility within hospitals, schools, government offices, and other health-related establishments where dental services are given by dentists, doctors of oral health.
Dental Office: a healthcare facility owned and operated by a dentist, a doctor of oral health.
Dialysis Centers: a healthcare facility that provides dialysis for people with chronic kidney failure; they do the work that kidneys do cleansing the blood by removing waste and excess water.
Doctor’s Offices: (also known as a doctor’s surgery in British English or a doctor’s practice) a healthcare facility in which one or more medical doctors, typically general practitioners (GP) that receive and treat patients.
Egg Cell Bank: (also known as an ova bank or cryobank) a facility that collects and stores human ova from women who donate their ova to help achieve pregnancies for either the donor at a later time or for another person through third party reproduction.
Hospice Homes: a facility such as a nursing home, hospital, or standalone hospice center where a team of people of special skills (from nurses, doctors, social workers, spiritual advisors, and trained volunteers) works together with a person who is dying, caregivers, and/or family to provide medical, emotional, and spiritual support.
Hospitals: a healthcare facility that diagnoses diseases, provides treatment (both medical and surgical) of the sick and injured as well as housing during the process, and serves as a center for research and education of healthcare professionals.
Imaging and Radiology Centers: healthcare facilities that offer a variety of diagnostic scans and tools to help protect your health and detect disease at the earliest stages.
Medical Laboratory: a healthcare facility where tests are conducted on health specimens from a patient to get information about the patient’s health to help with diagnosis, treatment, and disease prevention.
Nursing Homes: a facility that provides residential accommodations with healthcare for elderly people.
Optometry: a healthcare facility that provides eye services from vision correction ocular disease diagnosis and is managed, owned, and operated by an optometrist, a doctor of eye health.
Orthodontic Clinic: a healthcare facility in the branch of dentistry that focuses on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of dental irregularities known primarily for braces and other similar teeth correction devices.
Orthopedic Centers: a facility that specializes in the diagnosis, correction, prevention, and treatment of patients with skeletal deformities like disorders of the bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, and skin.
Pharmacies and Drug Stores: facilities where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold.
Psychiatric Care Centers: (also known as a mental health treatment center or psychiatric residential treatment facility) healthcare facilities that treat patients with a chronic psychiatric disorder like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Urgent Care Center: healthcare facilities that provide easy and convenient access to care when your primary care physician’s offices are closed.
Sperm Bank: (also known as semen bank or cryobank) a facility that purchases, stores, and sells human semen that is produced and sold by men who are known as sperm donors and purchased by or for women for the purpose of achieving pregnancies.
Telehealth: a virtual healthcare facility where technology supports long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health, and health administration.
Walk-In Retail Clinics: healthcare facilities that offer a generally lower cost than urgent care for quick, less complex health needs.
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