Tag:amenity=hospital
 amenity = hospital
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A hospital providing in-patient medical treatment. 
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Rendering in OSM Carto 
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amenity=hospital is used for hospitals, i.e. institutions for health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment, and typically providing nursing care for longer-term patient stays.
In contrast, a medical centre with doctors for outpatient care only should be tagged amenity=clinic, and an individual doctor's office as amenity=doctors.
How to map
Draw an area around the grounds of the hospital, and add the amenity=hospital tag to it. If the area is not known, add a node at the centre of the hospital.
You add the name using the key name=*.
If you know whether or not the hospital in question is equipped to deal with emergencies - this is called A&E (accidents and emergencies) in the UK and ER (emergency room) in the US - then you can add emergency=* with a value of "yes" or "no" and, if applicable, a node at the emergency ward entrance with emergency=emergency_ward_entrance.
Use one feature to represent the hospital. The amenity=hospital tag should not be repeated on constituent parts of the hospital.
Tag the buildings on the hospital grounds with building=hospital or another building=* value. Adding amenity=hospital and building=hospital to the same area is usually imprecise, even in the case of a single-building hospital, since most hospital grounds encompass more land than just a building.
Building entrances can be mapped with a node on the building outline, with the tag entrance=yes. Likewise an entrance to the grounds of the hospital might be mapped as a node with barrier=*. This node would also be part of a footway or service road from the main road network so that it is possible to route to the entrance of the hospital.
Tags to use in combination
emergency=yes/no- whether the hospital offers emergency servicesoperator=*- name of the organisation which operates the hospitaloperator:type=*- specifies if the operator is a community, religious, private, or government organisationbeds=*- the total number of inpatient hospital bedsaddr:*=*- Addresswebsite=*phone=*
Examples
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Example rendering
Mapping internal hospital structure
Hospitals may have complex structure that may be mappable. Hospital may be split into wards/clinics/departments/facilities/units/centers each limited to specific area. Sadly there is currently no good way to tag such features. University mapping suffers from a related problem.
Each part may have its own name, area, opening hours etc. In case of any bigger hospital it is also useful to tag them precisely to allow better navigation.
Some parts of such structure issues have good existing solutions:
- see emergency ward for the emergency ward and related features
amenity=doctors- individual doctor's office
amenity=clinic is defined differently but is commonly used for parts of a hospital (wards/clinics/departments), especially in places where name of hospital segment is using word similar to "clinic"[1].
amenity=hospital is sometimes used to mark parts of a hospital, this is also an incorrect tagging but sometimes without a viable alternative.
Relation to healthcare=hospital tag
The tag healthcare=hospital is an exact duplicate and it is sometimes also added.
healthcare=hospital was introduced as part of a healthcare proposal[2] and intentionally duplicates amenity=hospital. It is used by some with intention of replacing and deprecating amenity=hospital in the future. The plan is to
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healthcare=hospitalto existingamenity=hospitalobjects - Add support in at least prominent data consumers for also
healthcare=hospitalin addition to supportingamenity=hospital - Remove support for
amenity=hospitalin data consumers and remove this tag from hospitals
There is opposition to this potential deprecation of widely used tag amenity=hospital[3][4], but it also has some notable support[5][6][7].
Examples
- Troms militære sykehus Troms militære sykehus
- Haukeland University Hospital
Haukeland University Hospital - Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet
Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet
See also
beds=*- to state the number of beds.emergency=emergency_ward_entrance- to mark the entrance to an emergency ward.amenity=clinicamenity=doctorshealthcare=hospital
References
- ↑ For example "Klinika Hematologii Szpitala Uniwersyteckiego UJ"
- ↑ Proposed features/Healthcare
- ↑ tagging mailing list discussion about potential deprecation of healthcare=pharmacy and healthcare=hospital discussing their origin and purpose
- ↑ as of early 2020 JOSM is not including support for healthcare tag
- ↑ support for transition from author of the Vespucci
- ↑ Support in iD, including request to user to "upgrade tags" by adding
healthcare=hospital - ↑ Rejection of dropping support in iD