Harris County Tax Office

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• Clinic/Center

  Ambulatory Family Planning Facility

  Ambulatory Health Care Facilities

  Primary

  An abortion/family planning facility where services are provided at a fixed specific location. An Ambulatory Family Planning Facility does not provide overnight accommodations. The following procedures may be performed at an Ambulatory Family Planning Facility: abortions, laproscopy, hysterectomies, tubule ligation and other related procedures. Abortion is considered voluntary termination of pregnancy.

  Taxonomy code 261QA0005X

• Community Health Worker

  Other Service Providers

  Community health workers (CHW) are lay members of communities who work either for pay or as volunteers in association with the local health care system in both urban and rural environments and usually share ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status and life experiences with the community members they serve. They have been identified by many titles such as community health advisors, lay health advocates, "promotores(as), outreach educators, community health representatives, peer health promoters, and peer health educators. CHWs offer interpretation and translation services, provide culturally appropriate health education and information, assist people in receiving the care they need, give informal counseling and guidance on health behaviors, advocate for individual and community health needs, and provide some direct services such as first aid and blood pressure screening. Some examples of these practitioners are Community Health Aides or Practitioners established under 25 USC 1616 (l) under HHS, Indian Health Service, Public Health Service.

  Taxonomy code 172V00000X

• Public Health or Welfare

  Agencies

  Definition to come...

  Taxonomy code 251K00000X

• Clinic/Center

  Public Health, State or Local

  Ambulatory Health Care Facilities

  Definition to come...

  Taxonomy code 261QP0905X