| B | Community Health Centre | An inter-professional primary care centre that integrates primary care, health promotion and community well-being services as well as a broader range of social supports. |
| C | Residential Care/Assisted Living Residence | Service is provided to a patient in a licensed residential care facility or registered assisted living residence. (Note: Excludes small “group homes” where no professional health care support/care is available and includes extended care facility within a hospital). |
| D | Diagnostic Facility | Service is provided in a facility that primarily/exclusively provides diagnostic testing and has been granted a MSC Certificate of Approval (Note: Excludes diagnostic tests provided in a practitioner’s office. Also excludes diagnostic services provided in/by hospital and/or D&T centre facilities). |
| E | Hospital Emergency Room (unscheduled patient) | Service is provided in a hospital emergency department for a patient who presents for emergent or urgent treatment (Note: Excludes hospital outpatients who receive services on a scheduled basis within an emergency department; see Hospital Outpatient). |
| F | Private medical/surgical facility | Service is provided within a private medical/surgery facility accredited by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. |
| G | Hospital, Day Care (surgery) | Service is provided within a hospital to a patient who is a day care surgery patient (Note: Includes all patients who are in hospital on a day care basis primarily to receive a “procedure”. Excludes scheduled services; see Hospital Outpatient). |
| I | Hospital (inpatient) | Service is provided within a hospital to a patient who is a day care surgery patient (Note: Includes all patients who are in hospital on a day care basis primarily to receive a “procedure”. Excludes scheduled services; see Hospital Outpatient). |
| J | First Nations Primary Health Care Clinic | A clinic that provides inter-professional-based continuum of care that integrates health services, disease prevention and management, population health promotion, traditional and mental wellness, and social determinants of health, as well as embodies attributes of cultural safety and humility, trauma-informed care, and integration to First Nations communities. |
| K | Hybrid Primary Care Practice | A primary care practice that includes both longitudinal primary care services and walk-in/episodic care services |
| L | Longitudinal Primary Care Practice | A primary care practice (e.g. Patient Medical Home) that provides longitudinal primary care services by a family physician, group of family physicians, or group of primary care providers (FPs and NPs) including those with focused practice or providing consultative expertise and those in a shared office with non-FPs. |
| M | Mental Health Centre | Service is provided in a publicly administered mental health centre to an outpatient (Note: Excludes mental health facilities that are primarily residential in nature; see Residential Care/Assisted Living. Includes CRESST Facilities). |
| N | Health Care Practitioner Office (non-physician) | An office where non-physician health care practitioners, e.g. Nurse Practitioners, are providing health care. |
| P | Hospital Outpatient | Service is provided in outpatient and/or ambulatory clinics where outpatients receive scheduled services including emergency department, or any other hospital setting where outpatients receive services (Note: Excludes day care surgical patients). |
| Q | Specialist Physician Office | A physician office that provides health care services by one or more non-family physicians (e.g. Royal College Specialist). |
| R | Patient’s Private Home | Service is provided in a patient’s ow home (Note: Includes service provided in “group homes” where on-site nursing or other health professional support care is not provided but excludes assisted living residences and other residential facilities; see Residential Care/Assisted Living Residence). |
| T | Practitioner’s Office, in a publicly administered facility | Service is provided in a practitioner’s Publicly Administered office located within a publicly administered health care facility (e.g. Hospital, Primary Care Centre/Clinic, D&T Centre, etc.). |
| U | Urgent and Primary Care Centre (Ministry-designated) | A centre that provides longitudinal full-service primary care and attachment in addition to meeting the episodic urgent primary care needs for both attached and unattached patients. |
| V | Virtual Care | A practice that provides exclusively virtual care as a method of delivering health care diagnosis and treatment services. Does not include other clinics or centers where virtual care is provided in addition to in-person care. |
| W | Walk-in/Episodic Care Clinic | A practice that provides exclusively episodic primary care services. |
| Z | Other, e.g. accident site or in an ambulance | Service is provided in any other location such as a temporary community or school clinic, ambulance, accident site, etc. |