A classification of the use to which an ORGANISATION SITE is put.

Classification:

a.	General and Acute Hospital - Hospitals providing acute services. Such hospitals may provide multi-speciality or single speciality services. They may or may not include some non-acute services (up to 60% of the beds) without altering the classification.
b.	Short Term Non-acute Hospital - Hospitals where the service delivered is mainly short term non-acute services including respite care, convalescence and rehabilitation.
c.	Long Stay Hospital - Hospitals where the service delivered is mainly for long-stay patients i.e. where patients stays are expected to be more than six months e.g. hospitals for the long-stay care of the mentally ill, elderly or patients with learning difficulties.
d.	Non Hospital (Patient) - Includes nursing homes, residential care homes and group homes providing mainly long stay residential-type care, clinics and health centres.
e.	Non Hospital (Non-Patient) - Includes administrative or other support service sites, ambulance stations and other non-hospital sites where PATIENTS are not treated or accommodated. Sites used solely for the accommodation of staff are excluded from this classification.

 

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	ORGANISATION SITE TYPES