Key:healthcare
 healthcare
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A healthcare facility.  
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Status: approved
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The key healthcare=* is used to map a facility that provides healthcare (part of the healthcare sector).
Many other healthcare facilities are tagged with amenity=*, and some are tagged with emergency=* or shop=*.
See Healthcare for a full list of healthcare facility tags.
How to map
Create a node in the centre of the feature and tag it with healthcare=*. Or map an outline of this feature and add healthcare=* to that area. healthcare=* is also commonly added to building=* areas.
Add a healthcare:speciality=* as appropriate.
Values
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| healthcare=alternative | Someone practising  alternative or complementary medicine but is not a medical practitioner or a place where alternative or complementary medicine is practised that does not fit into the other categories
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| healthcare=audiologist | Audiologist; if linked with a shop please use shop=hearing_aids instead
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| healthcare=birthing_centre | A non-clinical birthing centre operated by midwives.
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| healthcare=blood_bank | Blood bank
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| healthcare=blood_donation | A facility where you can donate blood, plasma and/or platelets, and possibly have stem cell samples taken. |
| healthcare=centre | Healthcare facility with unspecified characteristics. Its usage without further specifications is discouraged. |
| healthcare=clinic | May be used in addition to amenity=clinic. |
| healthcare=community_health_worker | A place where a community_health_worker serves as the main health care provider.
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| healthcare=counselling | Healthcare counselling, e.g. an addiction centre, a nutritionist, or a sex therapist. Also see healthcare=nutrition_counselling |
| healthcare=dentist | May be used in addition to amenity=dentist. |
| healthcare=dialysis | A clinic for day patients to get a haemodialysis Dialysis
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| healthcare=doctor | May be used in addition to amenity=doctors. |
| healthcare=hospice | A Hospice which provides palliative care to terminal ill people and support to their relatives. |
| healthcare=hospital | May be used in addition to amenity=hospital. |
| healthcare=laboratory | Medical laboratory also called (analytical, diagnostic) is a place that analyzes body fluids such as blood, urine, faeces etc. Often blood and other samples are collected here as well. |
| healthcare=midwife | A Midwife, a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth.
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| healthcare=nurse | Nursing. A facility where some nurses may receive their patients.
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| healthcare=occupational_therapist | Someone who practices occupational therapy but is not a medical practitioner.
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| healthcare=optometrist | Optometrist; If linked with a shop please use shop=optician instead.
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| healthcare=pharmacy | May be used in addition to amenity=pharmacy. |
| healthcare=physiotherapist | Someone who practices physical therapy (also known as kinesiotherapy in some countries) but is not a physician.
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| healthcare=podiatrist | Someone who practices podiatry but is not a Physician on Wikipedia.
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| healthcare=psychotherapist | Someone who practices psychotherapy but is not a Physician on Wikipedia.
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| healthcare=rehabilitation | Medical rehabilitation facility; should not be used for a wellness clinic or hotel.
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| healthcare=sample_collection | Site or dedicated healthcare facility where samples of blood/urine/etc are obtained or collected for purpose of analyzing them for healthcare diagnostics |
| healthcare=speech_therapist | Someone who practices speech and language therapy.
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| healthcare=vaccination_centre | a healthcare facility specifically dedicated to administering vaccinations to individuals, to provide immunisation against infectious diseases. |
| healthcare=yes | General healthcare facility. Used only if specifics are unknown. If this value is used, it is recommended to include some details with the description=* or fixme=* key. |
Subtags
healthcare:speciality=* as defined below.
The speciality of a medical practitioner (informal the doctor) or a medical facility can be tagged using the key healthcare:speciality=*.
The following table shows values which could be used in connection with this key. The table was derived from the Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament on the recognition of professional qualifications [1] with additions from Wikipedia.
If a medical practitioner or a medical facility covers several specializations, they could be separated by a semicolon (';') e.g. healthcare:speciality=radiology;radiotherapy
Specialities of medical practitioners
Specialities for amenity=clinic / healthcare=clinic
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| healthcare:speciality=abortion | Abortion clinic
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| healthcare:speciality=fertility | Fertility clinic
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| healthcare:speciality=vaccination | Vaccination centre |
Specialities for healthcare=psychotherapist
Different schools and approaches of psychotherapy may be tagged using healthcare:speciality=*. May also be used for healthcare=doctor and other healthcare=*.
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| healthcare:speciality=behavior | Behavior oriented psychotherapy
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| healthcare:speciality=body | Body oriented psychotherapy
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| healthcare:speciality=depth | psychotherapy based on Depth psychology, e.g. Psychoanalysis
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| healthcare:speciality=humanistic | psychotherapy based on Humanistic psychology
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| healthcare:speciality=other | psychotherapy that does not fit into the other categories, e.g. Art therapy
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| healthcare:speciality=systemic | Systemic therapy
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Specialities for healthcare=laboratory
Specialities for healthcare=alternative
May also be used for healthcare=doctor and other healthcare=*.
Attention, the specialities here may be used additional to medical facilities.
But on its own the alternative healthcare cannot ensure proper and state-of-the-art healthcare.
Therefore the tag healthcare:=* is very misleading. Some of this practices may even be dangerous for the human health.
Specialities for healthcare=counselling
What types of counselling are offered.
| Value | Description |
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| healthcare:counselling=addiction | addiction counselling for drugs like alcohol
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| healthcare:counselling=antenatal | pregnancy and antenatal counselling
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| healthcare:counselling=dietitian | dietitian
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| healthcare:counselling=nutrition | nutrition
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| healthcare:counselling=sexual | sexual
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Rendering and editors
- Rendering / editor: Healthsites.io
- Rendering: osm-carto Not currently rendered. See PR (#3731 – Revert rendering of healthcare key) to suspend the rendering of healthcare=* for problems with areas tagged with healthcare=* not being in the rendering database yet. Now rendering on the OSM website depends on this request.
- Open Healthcare Access Map
See also
- Healthcare - For a full list of facilities which provide healthcare services
- amenity=pharmacy - A shop where a pharmacist sells medications
- amenity=hospital - A hospital providing in-patient medical treatment
- amenity=clinic - A clinic is a medical centre, with more staff than a doctor's office, that does not admit inpatients
- amenity=doctors - A doctor's office, a place to get medical attention or a check up from a physician
- amenity=health_post - A village or neighbourhood health post, without a physician
- amenity=dentist - A dentist practice / surgery
- amenity=social_facility - A facility that provides social services
- building=hospital - A building which forms part of a hospital
- emergency=* - This key describe various emergency services
- Emergency - Used for various forms of emergency equipment
- Social facility - A facility that provides social services
- Disabilities - Tags and features that will be relevant for disabled users
- Proposal history:
- 2009-04: Proposed features/healthcare (Status: obsoleted)
- 2010-11: Proposed features/Healthcare (Status: approved)
- 2011-01: Proposed features/Healthcare 2.0 (Status: inactive)