Health Care Resources Finder
What is the Health Care Resources
Finder?
The Washington Health Care
Resources Finder provides access to an inventory of facilities through which
health care is delivered in
Facility Type
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Ambulatory Surgical Centers: These are distinct facilities that provide short-term surgical services to patients
not requiring hospitalization. ASC services are those that generally do
not exceed 90 minutes in length and do not require more than four hours
recovery time. ASC services are performed by licensed physicians in a
safe and sanitary environment. Each Center has emergency equipment and trained
personnel. The ACS list is compiled
using agency data from DOH and L&I and membership list from the Washington
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.
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Hospitals: These are health facilities which
provide medical services over a continuous period of twenty-four hours or more,
for observation, diagnosis, or care. The
hospital list is compiled using agency data from DOH and L&I and membership
list from Washington State Hospital Association.
1. Available Beds: Beds that are setup and ready to use for patients.
2. Average Length of Stay: Average number of
days spent in the hospital per admission.
·
Kidney Dialysis Centers/Kidney Centers: This
type of facilities includes those that provide hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
treatment and/or training to patients as well as kidney transplant
centers. The dialysis/kidney center list
is compiled using agency data from DOH and L&I and membership list from
Northwest Renal Network.
1. CN Approved Stations: Number of Certificate of Need
approved dialysis stations
2. Patients Per Station: Number of dialysis patients per CN Approved
station. Patient-per-station standards
are pursuant to WAC
246-310-284(5).
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Nursing Homes: A nursing home is a facility that provides
convalescent or chronic care, or both, for a period in excess of twenty-four
consecutive hours for three or more patients not related by blood or marriage
to the operator, who by reason of illness or infirmity, are unable properly to
care for themselves. This type of facilities does not include hospitals or
boarding homes. The nursing home list is
compiled using agency data from DSHS, DOH, and L&I and membership list from
Washington Health Care Association.
1. Total Beds: Total number of licensed beds
2. Title 18 and 19 Beds: Number of beds approved for both Title XVIII (Health
Insurance for the Aged and Disabled) and Title XIX (Medical
Assistance Programs) clients
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Freestanding Diagnostic Imaging Centers: A “freestanding” imaging center is
one that provides imaging for medical diagnostic purposes only (or more than 50
percent of the facility’s business is preventative screening or diagnostic
imaging, with a correspondingly limited amount of therapeutic or treatment
work). Imaging centers “nested” in a patient care facility, but with different
ownership and/or management than the patient care facility, do fall into this
definition.
Diagnostic imaging centers that
are located in a patient care facility and share ownership or management with
that facility; and imaging centers owned or managed by organizations also
providing direct care, such as Group Health, are not “freestanding” imaging
centers, by our definition.
This definition takes in a range
of types of preventative and diagnostic imaging facilities, including units
providing mammography, nuclear medicine,
(radionuclide imaging),
medical ultrasound, CT scanning, MRIs, X-rays, PET scans and so on.
The diagnostic imaging center list
is compiled using agency data from DOH and L&I and group membership list
from Washington State Radiology Society.
·
Freestanding Laboratories: We define a “freestanding lab” to
be a medical facility that conducts clinical tests of human specimens and one
not owned by an entity that provides direct care. Freestanding medical labs for research
purposes only are not included by this definition. The lab list is compiled using agency data
from DOH and L&I and the list of
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Trauma Centers: A trauma center is a medical
facility (usually a hospital) designated as such by the Department of
Health for treating trauma patients. Trauma means a major single or
multisystem injury that requires immediate medical or surgical intervention or
treatment to prevent death or permanent disability. A medical facility can be designated for one
or any combination of the three types of trauma services listed below. Definitions
of each level of trauma service, can be found at (http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/emstrauma/download/rcws/70-168-015.pdf)."
1. Adult Level: One of five levels (I-V) designated by the Washington State Department
of Health for acute care. .
2. Pediatric Level: One of three levels (IP,IIP,IIIP)
designated by the Washington State Department of Health for pediatric acute
care.
3. Rehab Level: One of three levels (IR, IIR, IIIR) designated by the Washington State
Department of Health for trauma rehabilitative services. Codes IPR, IIPR, and IIIPR are also used to
designate pediatric rehabilitative facilities.
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City: Refers to the city in which the
facility is located.
·
County: Refers to the county in which the
facility is located.
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Hospital
Service Area: Hospital Service Areas (HSA) represent local catchments (or
“markets”) for community-based inpatient care.
HSAs were defined by the Dartmouth Atlas project after analyzing the
patterns of utilization of local hospitals by Medicare patients at the zip code
level. Zip codes were assigned to the
hospital in which most Medicare patients from the zip code received care. HSAs with overlapping or indeterminate
catchments were combined or reassigned to other HSAs to achieve areal
contiguity. More information is
available at the Dartmouth Atlas website, www.dartmouthatlas.org.
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Hospital
Referral Region:
Health Referral Regions (HRR) represent larger tertiary care markets. HRRs are aggregations of HSAs, with the
constraints that each HRR includes at least one HSA where major cardiovascular
and neurosurgical procedures are performed, that each has a population of at
least 120,000, and that each exhibits geographic contiguity. See the Dartmouth Atlas website for more
information, www.dartmouthatlas.org.
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Legislative District: Refers to the Washington State Legislative District in which the
facility is located.
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ZIP Code: Refers to the zip code in which the
facility is located. It should be
remembered that zip code “boundaries” can often change from one year to the
next. The zip code boundaries in this
report were current as of 2008.
