Hospice

Feature: Hospice

Description

Facility for both, permanent palliative and nursing care

Group

Health

Tags

healthcare=hospice or amenity=social_facility + social_facility=hospice

A Hospice is a facility providing both, permanent palliative and nursing care, 24 hours a day, to dying or terminally or chronically ill people as well as support to their relatives. Thus it has a different focus in comparison with a nursing home.

OpenStreetMap has currently two methods to tag such facilities:

• the direct approach with healthcare=hospice
• the structured approach with amenity=social_facility + social_facility=hospice

Related facilities

• The hub of an ambulatory nursing service, providing palliative and nursing care to patients living in their homes, can be tagged amenity=social_facility + social_facility=ambulatory_care. Typically such hub is recognizable by a fleet of vehicles for the nurses on their daily visits. If they are specialised in palliative care only, social_facility:for=terminal_ill can be added.
• A Hospice association, operating an office providing consultancy and support to relatives of terminally ill people, but no daily nursing, can be tagged as office=hospice.