On 4/30/19, Jmapb <jm...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 4/29/2019 4:47 PM, Nita Rae Sanders wrote: >> This concerns the best way to tag a hospital/healthcare facility that >> is known as a 'free standing emergency department. It is also called >> an offsite emergency department. >> >> ... >> >> Does this situation dictate a new high-level attribute value (e.g. >> amenity=free_standing_emergency_department) or is it better addressed >> via … >> amenity=clinic, healthcare=clinic, >> clinic=freestanding_emergency_department tag ? > > I've mapped one of these: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6372786026 > > Unfortunately it doesn't have "Emergency" in its name, but that's what > it is -- a standalone emergency department owned and operated by NYU > Langone. You can walk in, but it seems to mostly be ambulance traffic. I > went for healthcare=centre+healthcare:speciality=emergency, but I'm not > convinced that's perfect. > > 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. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging