[Tagging] Clinic that does admit inpatients

[Warin]

On 25/10/21 7:25 pm, osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au wrote:
>
> Yes, they are all healthcare facilities that treat patients, & some of 
> them have in-patient facilities, but none of them are places that you 
> can go to in search of emergency medical treatment
>
> That’s not an issue because amenity=hospital does in no way imply that 
> any type of emergency services are provided.
>
> If a hospital does provide emergency services, it should also have the 
> tag emergency=yes, and there should be one or more node on the 
> building outline tagged with entrance=yes/main/secondary/* (as 
> appropriate) and emergency=emergency_ward_entrance and 
> emergency_ward_entrance=walk-in/rescue_service/all.
>
> Data consumers should direct people to such 
> emergency_ward_entrance=walk-in/all nodes belonging to an 
> amenity=hospital or amenity=clinic with emergency=yes when looking for 
> emergency services.
>
> There may be an issue with rendering if the current rendering gives 
> the impression that places that don’t match that pattern provide 
> emergency services.
>
> There is also significant use of healthcare:speciality=emergency which 
> should probably generally be co-tagged with emergency=yes on 
> amenity=hospital/clinic/doctors
>
> It might also be worthwhile to add some global MapRoulette tasks:
>
>  1. Any amenity=hospital/clinic/doctors that does not have an explicit
>     emergency=yes/no tag should be checked and explicitly set the tag
>

The default would be emergency=no if it is not set.


> Any emergency=emergency_ward_entrance which isn’t tagged on a node of 
> a building=* should be checked (I’ve seen it wrongly tagged on 
> buldings themselves)


Comment "emergency ward" ... I am used to "emergency department" as 
would many from the UK.

So when I came across it I did not use it ... Here you do not walk into 
the 'emergency ward' but the emregency department waiting room where 
triage is performed. Then you usually are taken to a single room for one 
patient, rather than a 'ward'.

For these reasons I stumble over 'emergency ward'.

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