A pure guess would the that they are places that veterans might be transferred from of to by VA hospitals.
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:02, Wasif Toor wrote: In order to create a "Hospital" in VistA one comes across following designated entities: Medical Center Institute Facility (This file contains the list of all US Hospitals – 5861 entries) Division (Medical Center Division) Hospital Location (Wards, Clinics, Labs) Question: What is the exact purpose of having the whole list of hospitals in the FACILITY file? We assume that MEDICAL CENTER & INSTITUTE are interchangeable terms for a Hospital Question: Is the above assumption correct? While creating a hospital, we adhere to the following hierarchy: Institute/Medical Center = (Hospital) Division Hospital Location Question: Is the above hierarchy valid? During Admission, we come across the following fields: Admitting Regulation Type of Admission Facility Treating Speciality These entries available in these fields seem to be appropriate from VA point of view. Question: Are there any dependencies on the above data sets, or are these just labels to the record? Can we add or delete them without worrying about their dependencies? ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members