On 4/30/2019 12:13 PM, Nita Rae Sanders wrote:
On 4/30/19, Jmapb <jm...@gmx.com> wrote:
I've mapped one of these: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6372786026
...
It's got a very different feel from an "Urgent Care" center, which I'd
tag as healthcare=clinic. It feels like a hospital department that
happens to be offsite.
That's exactly what it is. They exist for all the following reasons:
o Cheaper than building a whole new hospital (just to get the ER)
o Allow for better utilization of the inpatient care capacity at the
central facility
o Redundancy of the ER department
o Outreach to areas otherwise poorly served
o Reduction of time for ambulance pickup to ER arrival (and to patient
stabilization)
o Functionally equivalent to an onsite ER department, with the
exception of Trauma handling
There are now more off-site ER departments in Florida, than on-site ER
departments.
I've contemplated a healthcare=department tag, for mapping complex
hospital campuses. This could also be useful for offsite departments
like these ERs.
J
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