[Talk-us] When is your doctor a clinic?

[Greg Morgan]

Brian,

That's my US American understanding of a clinic.  A clinic is not a
hospital and not a "doctors office".  But If I cannot get into my doctor or
if an individual does not need to go to the emergency room of a hospital,
then a clinic is a place to go.  For example, Honor Health is part of a
hospital system.  They are adding these "clinic" type places all over the
place as in here
https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=33.64049309000001&lng=-112.01184603000002&z=17&pKey=FJ_1oHqz8x2c1-PziWhxSQ&focus=photo&x=0.4913798647410984&y=0.548466145091522&zoom=0
In this case, they bought out another clinic and replaced it with their
Honor Health brand.

You will need to zoom in on this image
https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=33.67662935172414&lng=-111.97772731602434&z=17&pKey=sEr2RqD5xZYGSZGEej8oJw&focus=photo&x=0.8085766039159952&y=0.517578833862374&zoom=2.486737400530504
There
is also surgery center's.  Still not a hospital but invasive procedures are
performed at these locations.  A surgery center is cheaper than a hospital
per insurance dictates.  In this case you could go while with POIs.  Some
of these surgery centers are next to a string of retail POIs or may be in
the same wing of a building with retail space.

Don't know.  Some day I will sit down and map those.  I am just not
interested at the moment.

Regards,
Greg




On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:33 AM Brian Stromberg <brian.stromberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I hear “clinic” in reference to a healthcare facility, I think of
> “urgent care” clinics, and I think there are about six urgent care clinics
> within a 20 minute drive of my local hospital. These are usually staffed
> with nurses and Physicians Assistants rather than MDs. It’s pretty common
> in the US for people to use these rather than the local emergency room, or
> even in lieu of a primary care doctor. Having them on OSM seems important
> if people need immediate care that doesn’t rise to the level of a hospital
> visit. For example, I took my mother to one near me when she had a fall (at
> her request, I might have preferred an actual hospital, but it wasn’t a
> great time to argue...). They often serve you faster and there is less
> administrative processing involved.
>
> Just wanted to share an American perspective.
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 7:56 AM Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 00:51 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On 1/23/20 22:42, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> > > There may be a disconnect with what the US (or that spammer)
>> > > means.
>> > > Could I get a clarification on the difference between "doctors" and
>> > > "clinic" as you understand it?
>> >
>> > Personally (and in my country - Germany) there's precious little I
>> > would
>> > tag as a clinic; in everyday language we use the (german version of)
>> > the
>> > word clinic more or less synonymous with "hospital", with the
>> > possible
>> > exception that we'd also apply clinic to something that deals
>> > exclusively with non-illness-related things like e.g. a beauty clinic
>> > or
>> > a drug rehab clinic. In my language, a clinic would always be
>> > something
>> > where you can (and usually do) have a bed and stay for longer until
>> > the
>> > treatment is over. A building with a couple of different medical
>> > practitioners might be a "Gemeinschaftspraxis" ("shared practice") or
>> > perhaps an "Ärztehaus" (doctors' house) but not a "Klinik". Then
>> > again
>> > these would hardly ever be open 24/7...
>> >
>> > I'm not trying to apply my understanding of medical establishments to
>> > the US - just asking what the general understanding is on your side
>> > of
>> > the pond. Does Jmapb's distinction sound more or less ok for others
>> > too?
>> > He wrote:
>> >
>> Even in the UK, where OSM originated, clinics are quite rare.
>>
>> A clinic is where outpatients go, usually referred by their doctor to
>> see a specialist.
>>
>> The on the ground reality is that most clinics take place within
>> hospitals.
>>
>> Standalone clinics do exist, there is one in my town, but will tend not
>> to exist in larger towns or cities which have hospitals.
>>
>> HTH
>> Phil (trigpoint)
>>
>>
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