[talk-au] Are Health Centres, hospitals

[Michael James]

That list is for Queensland Health operated facilities not just hospitals so yes your right in that particular site would not be a hospital per se.

Not sure where you find a list of accredited hospitals but it is a thing as I live in a street with 2 facilities that are accredited as hospitals but only one calls itself a hospital.

Not sure QAS offers any walk up facilities anymore, the local one here has a phone out the front to call for help.

Michael


From: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, 4 September 2020 12:51 PM
To: OSM-Au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [talk-au] Are Health Centres, hospitals

Over the last few days, I've spotted a few places marked as hospitals that aren't.

Locally, there were two Aged Care homes, then as I looked around further, I spotted another Aged Care home, an Ambulance station in a small country town & an SES station!

The Ambo station I could almost relate to, as that's where you go for any medical emergency, but none of the others. Incidentally, there is hopefully some progress on them being rendered? https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3968

I did an Overpass search for Qld & found ~2100 "hospitals", which seems like a lot?  https://overpass-turbo.eu/#<https://overpass-turbo.eu/> (Don't know if that works or not?), & checking at random, found more Ambo's, Doctor's surgeries & so on also marked.

I did notice, though, a few of these: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/northwest/nwest_burket_hc

Personally, I would call that a Medical Centre, not a Hospital?, while this https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cq/hospitals/blackwater/services with A&E & inpatients is a Hospital.

What do you all think?

Thanks

Graeme
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