Hospitals - BAAQMD Jurisdiction

Where dataset is from: Department of Homeland Security
Source URL: https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/geoplatform::hospitals/about
When obtained: 10/13/2021
Last updated December 7, 2020
For what purpose it was obtained: General AB 617 Planning
Additional Information / Disclaimer: The dataset only includes hospital facilities based on data acquired from various state departments or federal sources which has been referenced in the SOURCE field. Hospital facilities which do not occur in these sources will be not present in the database. The source data was available in a variety of formats (pdfs, tables, webpages, etc.) which was cleaned and geocoded and then converted into a spatial database. The database does not contain nursing homes or health centers. Hospitals have been categorized into children, chronic disease, critical access, general acute care, long term care, military, psychiatric, rehabilitation, special, and women based on the range of the available values from the various sources after removing similarities. In this update 123 additional hospitals were added and 26 additional helipads were identified. This feature class/shapefile contains Hospitals derived from various sources (refer SOURCE field) for the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) database. (https://gii.dhs.gov/HIFLD)