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A HealthcareService will have a unique identifier. Healthcare services include but are not limited to primary care home care or in patient care such as surgical services. Additional attributes such as location of service contract person hours of operation etc. can be included.

A Location is a physical place where care can be delivered. Examples of Locations include buildings wards rooms and vehicles. A Location can also represent a jurisdiction such as a health region or zones. A Location will have attributes such as a unique identifier and may have attributes such as hours of operation geographic information (address geocode) hours operation. A Location may be associated with an Organization. A Location may also be in a hierarchy with other Locations.

A Jurisdiction consists of a pairing of a Location Resource and Organization resource. A jurisdiction is a political administrative unit or other territory over which authority is exercised. Jurisdictions include political administrative units such as village districts or regions.

An organization is an “umbrella” entity that may be considered an administrative body under whose auspices care services are provided. These may include a Health Region Non-Government Organization a healthcare partner with multiple locations or eve a one-physician family practice. An organization has a unique identifier and may have additional administrative attributes such as contact person mailing address etc. Departments of an institution or other administrative units may be represented as child Organizations of a parent Organization.

A Facility is defined as a pairing of a Location and an Organization. Facilities are sites where care is provided such as clinics hospitals pharmacies etc. A facilities will have attributes such as a unique identifier geographic location (address geocode) contact information hours of operation etc. This profile covers the location porition of the facility.

A Facility is defined as a pairing of a Location and an Organization. Facilities are sites where care is provided such as clinics hospitals pharmacies etc. A facilities will have attributes such as a unique identifier geographic location (address geocode) contact information hours of operation etc. This profile covers the organization porition of the facility.

This profile allows you to create a distance based search for a CA CSD Location.

A Jurisdiction consists of a pairing of a Location Resource and Organization resource. A jurisdiction is a political administrative unit or other territory over which authority is exercised. Jurisdictions include political administrative units such as village districts or regions.

A PractitionerRole is used to show what Healthcare Service a Practitioner provides at a particular Location for an Organization.

An Endpoint is used to allow access to an Organization OrganizationAffilication Location HealthcareService or PractitionerRole. Although recommended the Endpoint is not required to be a FHIR server but may be a webservice or another mechanism. The omission of an Endpoint on a resource does not mean it is not accessible as it may be reachable through another resource relationship.