Types of clinics
* In the United States, a free clinic provides free or low cost health care for those without insurance.
* A Retail Based Clinic is housed in supermarkets and similar retail outlets providing walk in health care, which may be staffed by nurse practitioners.
* A general out-patient clinic is a clinic offering a community general diagnoses or treatments without an overnight stay.
* A polyclinic is a clinic, hospital, or school where many diseases are treated and studied.
* A fertility clinic aims to help those couples and individuals to become pregnant. An abortion clinic is a medical facility providing certain kinds of outpatient medical care, including abortion to women. Such clinics may be public medical centers or private medical practices.
* A specialist clinic is a clinic with in-depth diagnosis or treatment on diseases of specific parts of the body. This type of clinic contrasts with general out-patient clinics, which deal with general diseases.