State Licensed Business Hearing Aid Dispenser in Arizona

ADHS Division of Licensing Mission Statement: To protect the health and safety of Arizonans by providing information, establishing standards, and licensing and regulating health and child care services. The Bureau of Special Licensing conducts licensing inspections, on-site surveys, and complaint investigations to promote quality care and safety and ensure that performance standards are met. Records are created and maintained by Bureau of Special Licensing staff in the licensing division, while the GIS Team extracts the data and creates GIS layers and shares them publicly. Each month, an extract from the ADHS Division of Licensing SQL database is geocoded using ADHS's internal geocoder, and post-processed using a Python script to create and publish feature classes by facility type, including business hearing aid dispenser locations. Last Updated: October 2024 Update frequency: Monthly Data FAQs: Some records have “license_expiration” earlier than the “rundate” while the “OPERTION_STATUS” is “ACTIVE”, should we treat all records with “OPERATION_STATUS” of “ACTIVE” as open at the time the data is released? Answer: Yes - ACTIVE is all the current licenses. In 2019 there was a perpetual rule change that affected certain facilities so in lieu of an expiration date, we began tracking the annual fee due date in the "license_expiration" field. Per rule, these facilities can submit annual requirements up to 30 days after the fee due date (aka license expiration in the provider database) so we do expect some to be earlier than the run date. Is the FACID of the same facility maintained unique and same throughout all releases? If a facility is purchased by a different company or has it’s name changed, is the FACID changed? Answer: The FACID represents a licensed premise - in many cases the facility ID is maintained when purchased by a different owner but under federal rule, certain facilities may choose to have a new CMS certification number which would require a new FACID be issued for that premise. What’s the unit type of capacities for different categories? Answer: This varies - it can be child capacity, bed count, dialysis station, etc. For Group_Home_for_Individuals_with_a_Developmental_Disability and Residential_Facility, how to tell if the employer’s office is at the facility VS the employer’s office is somewhere else and employees are sent to those facilities? Also is there a way to tell if a facility only has part time workers (Like workers only need to be at the residential facility less than 8hr per day or less than 5 days a week )? Answer: This is not currently available on the public database The data contains a 'COUNTY' field and a "N_County' field - which one should I use to filter results? Answer: N_County - this is the county that's assigned when a record is geocoded using the physical street address, vs one that is assigned manually during the licensing process.亚利桑那州卫生服务部（ADHS）执照司使命宣言：本部门旨在通过提供信息、制定标准、核发执照并监管医疗与儿童保健服务，保障亚利桑那州民众的健康与安全。特殊执照局负责开展执照核查、现场调研与投诉调查工作，以提升服务质量与安全性，确保绩效标准得到落实。特殊执照局的工作人员会在执照部门创建并维护相关记录，而地理信息系统（GIS）团队则负责提取数据、创建GIS图层并对外公开共享。每月，工作人员会使用ADHS内部地理编码工具，对ADHS执照司结构化查询语言（SQL）数据库的导出数据进行地理编码处理，随后通过Python脚本进行后处理，生成并发布按机构类型分类的要素类，其中包括商业助听器配镜师网点位置。最后更新时间：2024年10月 更新频率：每月 数据常见问题解答： 1. 部分记录的"license_expiration（执照有效期）"字段值早于"rundate（数据运行日期）"，但"OPERTION_STATUS（运营状态）"为"ACTIVE（活跃）"，是否应将所有"OPERATION_STATUS（运营状态）"为"ACTIVE"的记录视为数据发布时处于开放状态？ 答：是的——"ACTIVE"即代表当前有效的所有执照。2019年出台了一项永久性规则变更，影响了部分机构：此类机构不再设置执照有效期，转而在"license_expiration"字段中追踪年度费用缴纳截止日期。根据规则，此类机构可在费用缴纳截止日期（即供应商数据库中的执照有效期）后30天内提交年度合规材料，因此部分记录的该字段值早于数据运行日期属于正常现象。 2. 同一机构的FACID是否会保持唯一且在所有数据发布版本中保持一致？若某机构被其他公司收购或更名，FACID是否会变更？ 答：FACID代表持照经营场所。在多数情况下，机构易主后原FACID仍可保留；但根据联邦规则，部分机构可选择申领新的医疗保险与医疗补助服务中心（CMS）认证编号，此时该经营场所需核发新的FACID。 3. 不同类别的容量单位类型是什么？ 答：此情况各不相同，可涵盖儿童收容人数、床位数量、透析工位数量等。 4. 针对"Group_Home_for_Individuals_with_a_Developmental_Disability（发育障碍个体团体之家）"与"Residential_Facility（住宿机构）"两类机构，如何区分雇主办公室位于该机构内，还是雇主办公室设于别处而员工被派往该机构工作？此外，是否可通过数据判断某机构仅聘用兼职员工（例如员工每日在住宿机构的工作时长不足8小时，或每周工作天数不足5天）？ 答：当前公开数据库中暂无此类信息。 5. 数据包含"COUNTY"与"N_County"两个字段，应使用哪一个字段进行结果筛选？ 答：请使用N_County字段。该字段是通过实体街道地址进行地理编码时自动分配的县属信息，区别于执照核发流程中手动分配的县属信息。