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.
I posted the question in help questions at this link … https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/68977/how-to-tag-a-free-standing-emergency-department Since posting that question, I have done some research as to the extent that these facilities exist in the state of Florida: There are 44 major/primary hospitals in Florida (not including small rural statutory facilities) 2 have only the on-site emergency department 28 have the on-site emergency department plus one off-site emergency department 12 have the on-site emergency department plus two off-site emergency departments 2 have the on-site emergency department plus three off-site emergency departments for a total of 44 on-site emergency departments plus 58 off-site emergency departments. It appears this is a growing trend in healthcare to build an off-site emergency department, instead of building an entire new hospital. 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 ? Curious what the viewpoints are on this situation. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
