roadtechie wrote:What about an urgent care center that is not open 24/7 ? If an urgent care center is closed at 2am and you need emergency medical care at 2am this could pose routing issues.

grsmhiker wrote:Just to clarify, does "main entrance" refer to the Emergency Room entrance specifically? For example, a hospital near us has a big fancy entrance for outpatient / non emergency visitors, and a second entrance specifically for emergency room drop off.

roadtechie wrote:

PesachZ wrote:

roadtechie wrote:What about an urgent care center that is not open 24/7 ? If an urgent care center is closed at 2am and you need emergency medical care at 2am this could pose routing issues.

That's what the hours of operation is for, if you select it at 2am the preview will show a red box and say "Closed"

So we need to make sure the hours of operation are entered to avoid this dilemma.

TheChrisK wrote:I agree that Urgent Care Clinics should be mapped as Hospital/Medical Care. I feel it is absolutely imperative that the hours of operation be entered for such a facility, 24 hours or not.

Overall Fredo, I think it looks good.

roadtechie wrote:

PleaseDriveFast wrote:If agreement is to include all urgent care clinics, regardless if they're 24 hour or not, there should be some statement that defines what qualifies as an urgent care clinic before detailing how to map it. While urgent care centers now qualify for the Hospital/Medical Care category, old habits from previous MapRaids may have some editors choose offices.

I know I have used office for quite some time. This will require a bit of updating if all the urgent care clinics are changed to the hospital category.

ONLY Hospitals, Emergency Rooms, and places offering Urgent Medical Care should use this category. ERs encompassed in a hospital Place Area should be Points.

Clinics, and Medical offices which do not offer urgent medical care for Walk-Ins should use the Office, (and any other appropriate) category instead.

TheChrisK wrote:Just curious (and I know the draft is not 100%) but what is the naming standards for an Emergency Room that is attached to the main hospital?

I currently use 'Emergency Room - {{Hospital Name}}'

• you don't want the band to be so long the hospital Name gets cut off on the search results
• Many users will search for an ER by typing "ER" in the search, this will then show all the nearby ERs in the auto complete list. (Typing "er" and pressing search returns a category search result listing all places with the hospital category)
• When searching through the list of results we want to make sure it's immediately obvious which are the ERs, and we don't want the "ER" to be cut off the name in the result list, so therefore ER goes before the hospital name.
• A search for that hospital name will list several results all with the same name (for any associated places like parking etc. Having the differentiator first (ER, Parking, Ambulatory Care, etc.) Will allow a user to pick the correct result.

Lequs wrote:I think with a little clarification the proposed guidelines make perfect sense.
For example I did the places for both Avera and Sanford hospitals in Sioux Falls, SD. Haven't really seen any UR's based on these edits.
I did the whole campus as "Hospital" with that entrance placed at the regular, non emergency, entrance to the hospital. A point place was then made, also Hospital for the ER entrance.
All urgent care facilities marked as "Hospital" regardless of hours. I feel that the way it is being used now the category indicates 'emergency care', and while an ER should be used for life threatening issues and Urgent Care for non-life threatening they BOTH deal with emergencies, its just the severity that differs.

My only suggestion would to POSSIBLY create a new category somehow so that one is STRICTLY for Emergency Departments and Urgent care facilities. And a new one that is for general medical care. Obviously the ER category would be emphasized like it currently is.
IMO setting a general medical facility as "office" rather than "Hospital/Medical Care" is not intuitive at all.

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7) Treat the "map the building as an Area" similar to 5 above. AREA POINT
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