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Noun: health care provider
  1. A person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
    "The health care provider advised on diet and exercise";
    - health professional, primary care provider, PCP, caregiver [N. Amer], carer [Brit]

Derived forms: health care providers

Type of: professional, professional person

Part of: health profession

Encyclopedia: Health care provider