Veterans Health Administration Medical Facilities

ISO-19139 Metadata

Metadata Information

Metadata language: eng
Metadata character set: utf8
Last update: 2017-09-20
Metadata maintenance:
Update frequency: asNeeded
User-defined maintenance frequency: TGS has been tasked with updating this dataset once.
Metadata contact:
Role: pointOfContact
Organization's name: TechniGraphics, Inc.
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Scope of the data described by the metadata: dataset
Name of the metadata standard used: NAP - Metadata
Version of the metadata standard: 1.2
Metadata identifier: 1506353303075r33800726118470115

Data Identification Information

Resource citation:
Title: Veterans Health Administration Medical Facilities
Date:
Reference date - creation: 2007-09-21
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Reference date - publication: 2007-10-15
Presentation format: mapDigital
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Keywords: United States Territories and possessions, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, United States, CONUS, Continental United States
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Title: LCSH - Library of Congress subject headings (Washington, DC: LC, Cataloging Distribution Service)
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Theme keywords:
Keywords: Veterans' hospitals, Veterans' hospitals United States, Veterans Medical care, Veterans Dental care, Veterans health care
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Title: LCSH - Library of Congress subject headings (Washington, DC: LC, Cataloging Distribution Service)
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Keywords: Structure
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Title: ISO 19115 Topic Category
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Keywords: Downloadable Data
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Citation reference: 723f6998-058e-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66
Abstract: The Veterans Health Administration Medical Facilities dataset includes Veteran Affairs hospitals, Veteran Affairs Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Programs (RRTP), Veteran Affairs Nursing Home Care Units (NHCU), Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinics (VAOC), Vet Centers, and Veteran Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC). It should not include planned and suspended (non-operational) sites and mobile clinics. These definitions were set by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Policy Board in December 1998 and are the basis for defining the category and the additional service types for each VHA service site. These definitions cover sites generally owned by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with the exception of leased and contracted community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs). 1. VA HOSPITAL: an institution (health care site) that is owned, staffed and operated by VA and whose primary function is to provide inpatient services. NOTE: Each geographically unique inpatient division of an integrated facility is counted as a separate hospital. 2. VA RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION TREATMENT PROGRAM (RRTP): provides comprehensive health and social services in a VA facility for eligible veterans who are ambulatory and do not require the level of care provided in nursing homes. 3. VA NURSING HOME CARE UNITS (NHCU): provides care to individuals who are not in need of hospital care, but who require nursing care and related medical or psychosocial services in an institutional setting. VA NHCUs are facilities designed to care for patients who require a comprehensive care management system coordinated by an interdisciplinary team. Services provided include nursing, medical, rehabilitative, recreational, dietetic, psychosocial, pharmaceutical, radiological, laboratory, dental and spiritual. 4. VA OUTPATIENT CLINICS: a. Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC): a VA-operated, VA-funded, or VA-reimbursed health care facility or site geographically distinct or separate from a parent medical facility. This term encompasses all types of VA outpatient clinics, except hospital-based, independent and mobile clinics. Satellite, community-based, and outreach clinics have been redefined as CBOCs. Technically, CBOCs fall into four Categories, which are: > (i) VA-owned. A CBOC that is owned and staffed by VA. > (ii) Leased. A CBOC where the space is leased (contracted), but is staffed by VA. NOTE: This includes donated space staffed by VA. > (iii) Contracted. A CBOC where the space and the staff are not VA. This is typically a Healthcare Management Organization (HMO)-type provided where multiple sites can be associated with a single station identifier. > (iv) Not Operational. A CBOC which has been approved by Congress, but has not yet begun operating. b. Hospital-Based Outpatient Clinic: outpatient clinic functions located at a hospital. c. Independent Outpatient Clinic: a full-time, self-contained, freestanding, ambulatory care clinic that has no management, program, or fiscal relationship to a VA medical facility. Primary and specialty health care services are provided in an outpatient setting. 5. VET CENTER: Provides professional readjustment counseling, community education, outreach to special populations, brokering of services with community agencies, and access to links between the veteran and VA. 6. VA MEDICAL CENTER (VAMC): a medical center is a unique VA site of care providing two or more types of services that reside at a single physical site location. The services provided are the primary service as tracked in the VHA Site Tracking (VAST) (i.e., VA Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, independent outpatient clinic (IOC), hospital-based outpatient clinic (HBOC), and CBOC). The definition of VA medical center does not include the Vet Centers as an identifying service. This dataset is based upon GFI data received from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). At the request of NGA, text fields in this dataset have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results. At the request of NGA, all diacritics (e.g., the German umlaut or the Spanish tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database systems that may not support diacritics. The currentness of this dataset is indicated by the [CONTDATE] attribute. Based upon this attribute, the oldest record dates from 09/21/2007 and the newest record dates from 10/15/2007.
Purpose: The Veterans Health Administration Medical Facilities dataset includes Veteran Affairs hospitals, Veteran Affairs Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Programs (RRTP), Veteran Affairs Nursing Home Care Units (NHCU), and more.
Dataset language:eng
Dataset character set: utf8
Status: completed
Resource maintenance:
Update frequency: asNeeded
User-defined maintenance frequency: TGS has been tasked with updating this dataset once.
Resource constraints:
General constraints:
Limitations of use: Access Constraint: None (Public Domain Information)Use Constraint: None (Public Use)
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Legal constraints:
Limitations of use: Users must assume responsibility to determine the usability of this data for their purposes.
Other constraints: None (Public Domain Information)
Spatial representation type: vector
Processing environment: Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.4.1.5686
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Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -132.6682999995114
East longitude: -59.10389999978203
North latitude: 53.354099999802784
South latitude: 19.803399999926693
Supplemental information: If you are using this dataset as a shapefile, please be aware that it was converted from a Geodatabase. As a result, this shapefile may have attribution and metadata errors resulting from the conversion process. The following are known issues: null values may have been changed to 0s (zeros) or to blank values, numbers (including latitude and longitude) may have been rounded up or down, there may be issues with Unicode character strings, and time cannot be stored in a date field. Field names may have been truncated to no longer than 10 characters or completely changed, lengthy string attributes may have been truncated to 254 characters, and attribute columns may have been deleted. Shapefiles do not support coded domains and subtypes therefore the original file geodatabase attribution and metadata information for coded domains and subtypes could be incorrect or missing in the shapefile version. Please visit the following ESRI website for more information: http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/appendices/geoprocessing-considerations-for-Shapefile-output.htm
Resource point of contact:
Role: pointOfContact
Organization's name: TechniGraphics, Inc.
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Spatial Representation

Vector Data

Level of topology for this dataset: geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type: point
Object count: 1046

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier:
Value: 4326
Code space: EPSG
Version: 6.14(3.0.1)

Data Quality

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When the process occurred: 2017-07-19T00:00:00
Description: Updated geospatial locations based on corresponding hospital points from an Oak Ridge National Labs Hospital layer. For locations that were updated, entries in the GEOPREC field were updated to 'ONENTITY'. Standardized spelling, abbreviations, spacing and punctuation in the NAME, DIRECTIONS, CITY, ADDRESS and ADDRESS2 fields. Updated NAICSDESCR entries to reflect current language for the NAICSCODE. Expanded the width of the SHAR field to include 'YES' and 'NO' entries. Updated MOC, VAMC, VCTR, HBOC, VANH, IOC and RRTP field values of '1' and '0' to 'YES' and 'NO', respectively. Updated the CD110 field to include the 115th Congressional Districts information and renamed it to CD115. Renamed the 'X' and 'Y' fields to 'LONGITUDE' and 'LATITUDE', respectively. Updated blank values to '-' in the POD field due to character restrictions. Updated blank values to 'NONE' in the CBSA field. Updated blank values to 'N/A' in the SH_PAR_STA, SHAR, STA_FAX, PAR_STA_NO, QC_QA, PHONELOC, GEOLINKID, UA, ZIPP4, CONTHOW and URH fields. Updated blank values to 'NOT AVAILABLE' in the ULID, DIRECTIONS and ADDRESS2 fields.
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Role: processor
Organization's name: HIFLD Support Team
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Distribution Information

Distributor:
Distributor contact:
Role: distributor
Individual's name: HSIP Team
Organization's name: (NGA) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Contact's position: Database Administrator
Contact information:
Address:
Delivery point: N63-HSIP
Delivery point: 7500 GEOINT DRIVE
City: SPRINGFIELD
Administrative area: VA
Postal code: 22150
Country: US
e-mail address: hsip_team@nga.mil
Hours of service: Monday - Friday 0800 - 1700 EST
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Terms and fees: None
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Format name: File Geodatabase Feature Class
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Format name: Vector Digital Data (Point)
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Online distribution information:
Online location: https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/veterans-health-administration-medical-facilities
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