On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 17:48, <lukas-...@web.de> wrote: > > I even do not know whether there is a consensus. >
Not yet. Maybe never. > In Germany, we use "amenity=clinic" often for everything which has not > "hospital" (in german) in their name but looks like a hospital, often the > difference is just emergency=no. > That sounds like the distinction between what the UK calls a general hospital (big, with emergency unit) and a cottage hospital (small, with only a minor injuries unit). Both have inpatient beds. Both have "hospital" in their names. But in the UK we're moving away from cottage hospitals to "Integrated Care Centres." They include much of what a cottage hospital did and also other things like a doctors' general practice and social workers. But, crucially, no inpatient beds. They're not called hospitals by the health boards and the public don't think of them as hospitals because there are no beds. They include departments that would be tagged as clinics in their own right if they were stand-alone, such as X-ray and physiotherapy. Too big to be tagged as a clinic, no beds so they're not a hospital. Something else we could use a tag for. We either need to be able to specify hospital types such as general and cottage, then hammer the square peg of an integrated care centre into the round hole of a type of hospital or we need healthcare=integrated_care_centre. -- Paul
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