Big Profits Business Directory

The Big Profits Business Directory was founded to serve as a resource for businesses to help them 'get their name out there' while also service as a usefull source of information related to doing business.

Healthcare Industry companies are those whose primary goods or services involve the act of caring for patients or selling products that help caretakers take care of patients and help consumers take care of themselves. Healthcare appears as its own category independent of the goods and services industries because of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the industry.

• Doctors, Physicians and Nurse Practitioners - Doctors, Physicians and Nurse Practitioners are what is known Primary Care Medical Practitioners. These individuals usually operate in either a clinical or hospital setting and work with patients to diagnose illnesses, relieve symptoms and when possible cure what's ailing them.
• Home Health Care - Home Health Care companies are those whose primary service is providing care within the home of an elderly, injured, sick or dying patient. Home Health Care firms send out nurses and home health aids into the homes of typically bedbound patients to clean wounds, change diapers, apply wound dressing, give spone baths and sometimes feed the people for whom they care. Home health care is often viewed as an alternative to nursing homes, and is typically followed by hospice care when a patient's death is imminent.
• Hospitals - Hospitals are places where people go when they are sick, giving birth, injured or dying to be cared for by healthcare and medical professionals like nurses and physicians. This is the category for hospitals to submit their businesses to.
• Medical Equipment - Medical Equipment companies are those that provide items such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, bedside commodes, tub transer benches, shower chairs, grab bars, canes, crutches, rollators and other assistive technology devices to patients who depend on such equipment. There are two main types of medical equipment companies: Those that specialize in end-user medical equipment such as that listed above; and those who supply medical professionals such as doctors, nurses, home health care workers and surgeons with the medical devices they use every day to perform their jobs.
• Nursing Homes - Nursing homes are places where elderly people go to live once they reach an age or are limited by a medical condition such that they lose the ability to take care of themseves. Nurses and other healthcare workers help feed and for the residents, often administering their medicine in addition to helping out with many other routine tasks.
• Therapy Clinics - Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists work with people to rehabilitate them following an accident, injury or stroke.