Tertiary care is specialized consultative health care, usually for inpatients and on referral from a primary or secondary health professional, some problems which fall in tertiary care are:

• Head and neck oncology
• Perinatology (high-risk pregnancies)
• Neonatology (high-risk newborn care)
• PET scans
• Organ transplantation
• Trauma surgery
• High-dose chemotherapy for cancer cases
• Growth and puberty disorders
• Neurology and neurosurgery

Following two types of hospitals fall in this category

• a major hospital that usually has a full complement of services including pediatrics, general medicine, various branches of surgery and psychiatry.
• a specialty hospital dedicated to specific sub-specialty care (pediatric centers, Oncology centers, psychiatric hospitals). Patients will often be referred from smaller hospitals to a tertiary hospital for major operations, consultations with sub-specialists and when sophisticated intensive care facilities are required.