Archived - Standard Industrial Classification - Establishments (SIC-E) 1980

P - Health and Social Service Industries

86 - Health and Social Service Industries

Establishments primarily engaged in operating institutional and non-institutional health and social service facilities, including offices of health and social service practitioners medical and other health laboratories health and social service associations and agencies.

861 - Hospitals

Establishments primarily engaged in accommodating patients on the basis of medical need and providing them with continuing medical care and supporting diagnostic and therapeutic services.

862 - Other Institutional Health and Social Services

Establishments primarily engaged in providing institutional health and social services excluding hospitals. Included are establishments offering nursing care to in-patients as well as homes basically offering custodial or domiciliary care to the aged, handicapped, addicted and needy. "Nursing homes" are classified in 8621 - Homes for Personal and Nursing Care.

863 - Non-Institutional Health Services

Establishments primarily engaged in providing diagnostic and therapeutic services to persons not requiring institutional care, in facilities designed, staffed and equipped for such purposes.

864 - Non-Institutional Social Services

Establishments primarily engaged in providing social services to ensure the well-being of individuals and families living at home, through the provision of help or support in carrying out activities of daily living.

865 - Offices of Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists, Private Practice

Establishments of registered physicians, surgeons and dentists primarily engaged in the private practice of medicine or dentistry whether in individual or group practice. Excluded are offices of health practitioners such as psychologists, optometrists, chiropractors and osteopaths which are classified in Industry Group 866 - Offices of Other Health Practitioners.

866 - Offices of Other Health Practitioners

Establishments of registered health practitioners in private practice primarily engaged in chiro-practic, osteopathy, nursing, nutrition, physiotherapy, optometry, podiatry and other health care services, whether in individual or group practice. The practitioners of these establishments are authorized to practice by the appropriate provincial authority.

867 - Offices of Social Services Practitioners

Establishments of registered social service practitioners in private practice primarily engaged in providing treatment for mental disorders and/or providing individual, family and group guidance and counselling services to help them understand and resolve their personal and social problems. Included here are offices of psychologists, social workers and other social service practitioners authorized to practice by appropriate provincial legislation or a related association.

868 - Medical and Other Health Laboratories

Establishments commonly referred to as "laboratories" primarily engaged in providing professional analysis and diagnosis to the medical profession or to patients on prescription from a physician, in facilities specifically designed, staffed and equipped for such purposes. Included are blood banks and medical, radiological, public health and other health laboratories. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing dentures and known as dental laboratories are classified in 3999 - Other Manufactured Products Industries n.e.c.

869 - Health and Social Service Associations and Agencies

Establishments supported by grants and donations and primarily engaged in promoting health and social service through educational programmes, the investigation of health hazards, setting of health standards, advances in the social well-being of the Canadian public, etc.