Brian, That's my US American understanding of a clinic. A clinic is not a hospital and not a "doctors office". But If I cannot get into my doctor or if an individual does not need to go to the emergency room of a hospital, then a clinic is a place to go. For example, Honor Health is part of a hospital system. They are adding these "clinic" type places all over the place as in here https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=33.64049309000001&lng=-112.01184603000002&z=17&pKey=FJ_1oHqz8x2c1-PziWhxSQ&focus=photo&x=0.4913798647410984&y=0.548466145091522&zoom=0 In this case, they bought out another clinic and replaced it with their Honor Health brand.
You will need to zoom in on this image https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=33.67662935172414&lng=-111.97772731602434&z=17&pKey=sEr2RqD5xZYGSZGEej8oJw&focus=photo&x=0.8085766039159952&y=0.517578833862374&zoom=2.486737400530504 There is also surgery center's. Still not a hospital but invasive procedures are performed at these locations. A surgery center is cheaper than a hospital per insurance dictates. In this case you could go while with POIs. Some of these surgery centers are next to a string of retail POIs or may be in the same wing of a building with retail space. Don't know. Some day I will sit down and map those. I am just not interested at the moment. Regards, Greg On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:33 AM Brian Stromberg <[email protected]> wrote: > When I hear “clinic” in reference to a healthcare facility, I think of > “urgent care” clinics, and I think there are about six urgent care clinics > within a 20 minute drive of my local hospital. These are usually staffed > with nurses and Physicians Assistants rather than MDs. It’s pretty common > in the US for people to use these rather than the local emergency room, or > even in lieu of a primary care doctor. Having them on OSM seems important > if people need immediate care that doesn’t rise to the level of a hospital > visit. For example, I took my mother to one near me when she had a fall (at > her request, I might have preferred an actual hospital, but it wasn’t a > great time to argue...). They often serve you faster and there is less > administrative processing involved. > > Just wanted to share an American perspective. > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 7:56 AM Philip Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 00:51 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On 1/23/20 22:42, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > > There may be a disconnect with what the US (or that spammer) >> > > means. >> > > Could I get a clarification on the difference between "doctors" and >> > > "clinic" as you understand it? >> > >> > Personally (and in my country - Germany) there's precious little I >> > would >> > tag as a clinic; in everyday language we use the (german version of) >> > the >> > word clinic more or less synonymous with "hospital", with the >> > possible >> > exception that we'd also apply clinic to something that deals >> > exclusively with non-illness-related things like e.g. a beauty clinic >> > or >> > a drug rehab clinic. In my language, a clinic would always be >> > something >> > where you can (and usually do) have a bed and stay for longer until >> > the >> > treatment is over. A building with a couple of different medical >> > practitioners might be a "Gemeinschaftspraxis" ("shared practice") or >> > perhaps an "Ärztehaus" (doctors' house) but not a "Klinik". Then >> > again >> > these would hardly ever be open 24/7... >> > >> > I'm not trying to apply my understanding of medical establishments to >> > the US - just asking what the general understanding is on your side >> > of >> > the pond. Does Jmapb's distinction sound more or less ok for others >> > too? >> > He wrote: >> > >> Even in the UK, where OSM originated, clinics are quite rare. >> >> A clinic is where outpatients go, usually referred by their doctor to >> see a specialist. >> >> The on the ground reality is that most clinics take place within >> hospitals. >> >> Standalone clinics do exist, there is one in my town, but will tend not >> to exist in larger towns or cities which have hospitals. >> >> HTH >> Phil (trigpoint) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > -- > -- > Brian > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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