The healthcare providers are the establishments or professionals who supply healthcare services or actions. They can be either institutional in character, like clinics, hospitals or medical centers, or individual like those people who are enabled by law to provide health-related services, such as doctors, dentists or nurses.
The tasks of fostering the steady upgrade of healthcare providers, and their overseeing, within the framework of quality assessment systems, are carried out by the Intendance of Healthcare Providers of the Superintendence of Health's in those matters indicated by law.