Health Care Organizations

Health care organizations are those organizations that receive funding from a regional health authority to provide health services. Health care organizations include both non-profit and for-profit organizations.

A health care organization is defined as:

• an affiliate; or
• prescribed person that receives funding from a regional health authority to provide health services;

Affiliates are those not-for profit organizations that operate hospitals and special care homes. Typically these facilities are owned by faith-based organizations or other community groups with their own boards of directors.

Prescribed persons that receive funding from a regional health authority include for-profit special care private ambulance operators as well as organizations providing mental health and addictions services. These organizations are listed in Table 1 of The Regional Health Services Administration Regulations.

All health care organizations are required to provide health services in compliance with all provincial legislation and policy.

Health care organization boards are accountable to the owners of the facilities. At the same time, these boards are accountable to the Minister of Health and to the regional health authority in which they operate for the programs and services they provide.