FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: FLORIDA HOSPITALS 2008 Q4

Geodataset Name:       FDEM_HOSPITALS_AUG08
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         312
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Hospitals in Florida The term "hospital" ... means an institution which- (1) is primarily engaged in providing, by or under the supervision of physicians, to inpatients > (A) diagnostic services and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment, and care of injured, disabled, or sick persons, or > (B) rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled, or sick persons; (...) (5) provides 24-hour nursing service rendered or supervised by a registered professional nurse, and has a licensed practical nurse or registered professional nurse on duty at all times; ... (...) (7) in the case of an institution in any State in which State or applicable local law provides for the licensing of hospitals, > (A) is licensed pursuant to such law or > (B) is approved, by the agency of such State or locality responsible for licensing hospitals, as meeting the standards established for such licensing; (Excerpt from Title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395x(e)], <http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00001395---x000-.html>) Included in this dataset are General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals, and Specialty Hospitals (e.g., Children's Hospitals, Cancer Hospitals, Maternity Hospitals, Rehabilitation Hospitals, etc.). TGS has made a concerted effort to include all general medical/surgical hospitals in Florida. Other types of hospitals are included if they were represented in datasets sent by the state. Therefore, not all of the specialty hospitals in Florida are represented in this dataset. Hospitals operated by the Veterans Administration (VA) are included, even if the state they are located in does not license VA Hospitals. Nursing homes and Urgent Care facilities are excluded because they are included in a separate dataset. Locations that are administrative offices only are excluded from the dataset. Records with "-DOD" appended to the end of the [NAME] value are located on a military base, as defined by the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) military installations and military range boundaries. Text fields in this dataset have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results. 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] field. Based upon this field, the oldest record dates from 11/14/2005 and the newest record dates from 08/08/2008. This dataset was created by TechniGraphics, Inc. for the Florida Division of Emergency Management. This layer is an update of the previously released FGDL layer "FDEM_HOSPITALS_AUG07."
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Division of Emergency Management
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     N/A
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20080920 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 20051114 End Date: 20080808 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: FDEM_HOSPITALS_AUG08.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
ID
50 String
SECCLASS
30 String
NAME
254 String
TELEPHONE
12 String
ADDRESS
80 String
ADDRESS2
80 String
CITY
120 String
STATE
2 String
ZIP
5 String
ZIPP4
4 String
COUNTY
50 String
FIPS
5 String
DIRECTIONS
254 String
EMERGTITLE
50 String
EMERGTEL
15 String
EMERGEXT
10 String
CONTDATE
36 Date
CONTHOW
10 String
GEODATE
36 Date
GEOHOW
10 String
NAICSCODE
6 String
NAICSDESCR
120 String
GEOLINKID
10 String
X
8 Double
Y
8 Double
ST_VENDOR
10 String
ST_VERSION
10 String
GEOPREC
32 String
PHONELOC
3 String
QC_QA
3 String
STATE_ID
90 String
LIC_NUMBER
30 String
NUMBEDS
4 Integer
EMERPHONE
32 String
TRAUMA_1
10 String
TRAUMA_2
10 String
TRAUMA_3
10 String
TRAUMA_4
10 String
BURN_UNIT
11 String
ER_STATUS
1 String
LIC_ED_LEV
40 String
ACUTE
3 String
ICU
3 String
HOSP_TYPE
100 String
OWNER_TYPE
100 String
PERM_ID
40 String
GNIS_ID
32 String
USNG_FL_1K
10 String
DESCRIPT
80 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

ID Unique identifier for feature.

SECCLASS Security classification of feature.
UNCLASSIFIED = Entity is unclassified.


NAME Name of entity.

TELEPHONE Ten (10) digit telephone number for entity formatted as nnn-nnn-nnnn.

ADDRESS Physical street address for entity. "PO Box", "General Delivery", "Rural Route", and "Highway Contract" addresses are not considered physical addresses and should not appear in this field. Some areas do not have regular city style addressing, so entities in those areas may not have a street number. In such cases, the name of the road on which they are located is listed in this field. Some rural areas may not have named roads. In these rare cases, this field will be blank.

ADDRESS2 Location within physical address, e.g., floor, suite, building.

CITY The name of the city associated with the entity's physical address. For physical addresses that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) delivers to, this should be a "city" acceptable to the USPS as defined in their Address Information System (AIS). Sometimes the USPS does not deliver mail to a physical address but recognizes the location (i.e., they list the location as "undeliverable"). The cities associated with these locations are acceptable. In some cases, the USPS does not recognize individual physical addresses in a city, rather, they list the city as having "General Delivery". In these cases, the city and associated zip code are acceptable (the entity's [ADDRESS] field will contain a street address, not "general delivery"). The entity may not actually be located within the city limits of the "city" specified in its [CITY] field. Instead, it may actually be located within the city limits of another city. In some cases, the "city" that appears in this field may not even be a city in an administrative sense, but it is still an acceptable "city" to the USPS. An example of this is "Notre Dame, IN". There is no city in Indiana called "Notre Dame", but this is considered an acceptable city by the USPS for any delivery going to the University of Notre Dame which is actually located in the city of South Bend. "Notre Dame", like most USPS cities, is an easily recognized place, and it gives the user of the data a good general idea of where the entity is located (if the entity is located in a small municipality, the USPS "city" may be more recognizable than the name of the municipality), and it would be part of the address one would use to send a shipment to the entity's location. Using the USPS acceptable "city" also allows someone to do a logical consistency check between the zip code and the city by using the USPS AIS. Sometimes an entity may report a city that is not accepted by the USPS, and although TGS has tried to replace those cities with an acceptable alternative, some of them may remain in this dataset.

STATE Two (2) character abbreviation for state associated with the entity's physical address. In almost all cases, this is the same as the state where the entity has been depicted geospatially. However, there are cases, particularly where an entity is part of a larger facility that cuts across state lines, where the entity's location may be depicted in a state other than the one indicated in this field. Also, the state in which an entity appears to be located may change depending on the scale of the state boundary theme being used.

ZIP Five (5) digit USPS zip code for entity's physical location.

ZIPP4 Four (4) digit USPS zip code extension. These values are automatically assigned using the entity's physical address and USPS address information system (AIS) data.

COUNTY County name where entity is located.

FIPS Five (5) digit FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) Code for the County where entity is located. The first two (2) digits represent the state and the last three (3) digits identify the county within the state.

DIRECTIONS Directions to entity location, or description of the entity's location.

EMERGTITLE Title of person or name of office for emergency point of contact.

EMERGTEL Ten (10) digit telephone number of emergency point of contact formatted as nnn-nnn-nnnn. All alphabetic characters have been translated to the corresponding numeric digit.

EMERGEXT Telephone extension for emergency point of contact.

CONTDATE Date entity was contacted by TGS.

CONTHOW Method by which entity was contacted.
PHONE = Entity was contacted by phone.

FAX = Entity was contacted by fax.

MAIL = Entity was contacted by mail.

EMAIL = Entity was contacted by email.

WEB = Entity information was gathered and/or verified by official entity website as a last resort.

ALT REF = Geospatial reference information obtained from local authorities, e.g., downloadable parcel maps, 911 streets, and shape files.

<BLANK> = Entity has not been contacted by TGS.


GEODATE Date entity was geocoded by TGS.

GEOHOW Method by which entity was geocoded.
AUTO = Entity was automatically geocoded.

MANUAL = Entity was manually geocoded.

ADJUSTED = Entity was shifted by TGS to an updated set of NAVTEQ streets. This only applies if the entity was manually geocoded by TGS to a previous version of NAVTEQ streets.

PROVIDED = Entity was geocoded using coordinates provided by the original source.


NAICSCODE NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) Code for entity. NAICS Codes (and NAICS Descriptions) have been assigned based upon the entity's primary function, regardless of if that is the function that qualified it to be included in this dataset.

NAICSDESCR NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) Description for entity. The "Index Entries" that appear on the NAICS webpage (<http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html>) are being used to populate this field, as opposed to the "NAICS Title". While there is a one to one correspondence between NAICS Codes and "NAICS Titles", there is a one to many relationship between NAICS Codes and the "Index Entries". By using the "Index Entries", we have placed the entities that make up this layer into more specific categories; however, the user of this data should be aware that this was not the intended purpose of these "Index Entries". The "Index Entries" were intended as a way to search the NAICS database and as a way of enumerating ways in which establishments falling under the given NAICS Code may be named. Thus, there are often two or more "Index Entries" that are synonyms, for example: "Prisons" and "Penitentiaries". In cases like this, we have standardized on one "Index Entry". NAICS Descriptions (and NAICS Codes) have been assigned based upon the entity's primary function, regardless of if that is the function that qualified it to be included in this dataset.
CANCER HOSPITALS = CANCER HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 622310]: Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide care for cancer patients are classified under this description.

CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS, GENERAL = CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS, GENERAL - [NAICS Code 622110]: Entities that are known and licensed as general medical and surgical hospitals that provide general care to children are classified under this description.

CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC OR SUBSTANCE ABUSE = CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC OR SUBSTANCE ABUSE - [NAICS Code 622210]:  Entities that are known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals that provide treatment for children are classified under this description.

CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS, SPECIALTY (EXCEPT PSYCHIATRIC, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) = CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS, SPECIALTY (EXCEPT PSYCHIATRIC, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) - [NAICS Code 622310]:  Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide treatment of a specific type of disease or medical condition for children that is not psychiatric or substance abuse related are classified under this description.

DETOXIFICATION HOSPITALS = DETOXIFICATION HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 622210]:  Entities that are known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals that provide medically supervised inpatient treatment to people with physical and psychological dependence on alcohol or drugs are classified under this description.

EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT HOSPITALS = EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 622310]:  Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide treatment for all conditions relating to the eyes, ears, nose, and throat are classified under this description.

HOSPITALS, ADDICTION = HOSPITALS, ADDICTION - [NAICS Code 622210]:  Entities that are known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals that provide inpatient treatment for all people with a physical or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, such as a drug or alcohol, are classified under this description.

HOSPITALS, GENERAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL = HOSPITALS, GENERAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL - [NAICS Code 622110]:  Entities that are known and licensed as general medical and surgical hospitals that provide general medical treatment are classified under this description.

HOSPITALS, MENTAL (EXCEPT MENTAL RETARDATION) = HOSPITALS, MENTAL (EXCEPT MENTAL RETARDATION) - [NAICS Code 622210]:  Entities that are known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals that provide inpatient treatment for all people affected with disorders of the mind who are not mentally retarded are classified under this description.

HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC (EXCEPT CONVALESCENT) = HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC (EXCEPT CONVALESCENT) - [NAICS Code 622210]:  Entities that are known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals that provide treatment and prevention of mental and emotional disorders without recovery are classified under this description.

HOSPITALS, SPECIALTY (EXCEPT PSYCHIATRIC, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) = HOSPITALS, SPECIALTY (EXCEPT PSYCHIATRIC, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) - [NAICS Code 622310]:  Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide treatment for a specific type of disease or medical condition that is not psychiatric or substance abuse related are classified under this description.

MENTAL RETARDATION HOSPITALS = MENTAL RETARDATION HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 623210]:  Entities that are known and licensed as mental retardation hospitals that provide residential care services for persons diagnosed with mental retardation are classified under this description.

NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITALS = NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 622310]:  Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide treatment in dealing with disorders of the nervous system are classified under this description.

OBSTETRICAL HOSPITAL = OBSTETRICAL HOSPITAL - [NAICS Code 622310]:  Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide treatment of women during and after pregnancy are classified under this description.

ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITALS = ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 622310]:  Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide prevention or correction of injuries or disorders of the skeletal system and associated muscles, joints, and ligaments are classified under this description.

OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITALS = OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 622110]:  Entities that are known and licensed as general medical and surgical hospitals that provide treatment for disorders which can be corrected by various manipulative techniques in conjunction with conventional medical, surgical, pharmacological, and other therapeutic procedures are classified under this description.

REHABILITATION HOSPITALS (EXCEPT ALCOHOLISM, DRUG ADDICTION) = REHABILITATION HOSPITALS (EXCEPT ALCOHOLISM, DRUG ADDICTION) - [NAICS Code 622310]:  Entities that are known and licensed as specialty hospitals that provide restoration of a sick or disabled person by therapeutic measures and reeducation that are not dependent on drugs or alcohol are classified under this description.

TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER RESPIRATORY ILLNESS HOSPITALS = TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER RESPIRATORY ILLNESS HOSPITALS - [NAICS Code 622310]: This industry consists of establishments known and licensed as specialty hospitals primarily engaged in providing diagnostic and medical treatment to inpatients with tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses (except psychiatric or substance abuse).


GEOLINKID Link ID for the street segment to which the entity was geocoded. Refer to the [ST_VENDOR] and [ST_VERSION] fields for the street vendor and version that was used to geocode the entity.

X Longitude in WGS 84 Decimal Degrees.

Y Latitude in WGS 84 Decimal Degrees.

ST_VENDOR Indicates name of vendor providing original street data used for geocoding.
NAVTEQ = NAVTEQ streets were used for geocoding.

TGS = TGS drew in a new street segment that does not exist in the file supplied by NAVTEQ.

TIGER = TIGER/Line streets were used for geocoding.


ST_VERSION Indicates the year and quarter of streets used for geocoding.
2008Q1 = 1st Quarter 2008 NAVTEQ street data was used for geocoding.

2006FE = 2006fe version of TIGER/Line streets were used for geocoding in areas where NAVTEQ does not have coverage.


GEOPREC Geocoding precision.
BLOCKFACE = Entity is geocoded to correct block and correct side of street per street data indicated by [ST_VENDOR] and [ST_VERSION].

ONENTITY = Entity is geocoded on entity rooftop per aerial imagery (in most cases USGS DOQQs).


PHONELOC Indicates whether the phone number in the [TELEPHONE] field rings to the actual location of the entity.
YES = Phone number rings to the actual entity location.

NO = Phone number does not ring to the actual entity location. It may ring to an administrative office or central location.

<BLANK> = Unknown - It is not known if the entity's phone number rings to the entity's location.


QC_QA Organization that performed Quality Control/Quality Assurance on the record.
TGS = TGS has performed Quality Control/Quality Assurance on all TGS added records and all records contacted since 01/01/2005.

<BLANK> = The record is not TGS added or has not had Quality Control/Quality Assurance performed by TGS, or Quality Control/Quality Assurance was performed prior to 01/01/2005.


STATE_ID State Hospital Data ID. For states that contributed data, this field is populated with the unique ID used by the state to track hospitals.

LIC_NUMBER Hospital's license number. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.

NUMBEDS Total number of beds per facility. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.

EMERPHONE Emergency Contact Number as provided by individual states. Some values also include telephone extensions and/or alternate telephone numbers. All alphabetic characters have been translated to the corresponding numeric digit. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.

TRAUMA_1 Indicates whether or not the hospital is a Trauma Level 1 facility. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Entity is a trauma level 1 facility.

N = Entity is not a trauma level 1 facility.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


TRAUMA_2 Indicates whether or not the hospital is a Trauma Level 2 facility. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Entity is a trauma level 2 facility.

N = Entity is not a trauma level 2 facility.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


TRAUMA_3 Indicates whether or not the hospital is a Trauma Level 3 facility. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Entity is a trauma level 3 facility.

N = Entity is not a trauma level 3 facility.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


TRAUMA_4 Indicates whether or not the hospital is a Trauma Level 4 facility. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Entity is a trauma level 4 facility.

N = Entity is not a trauma level 4 facility.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


BURN_UNIT Indicates whether or not the hospital has a Burn Unit. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Entity has a burn unit.

N = Entity does not have a burn unit.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


ER_STATUS Indicates whether or not the hospital has an emergency room. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Indicates that facility has an emergency room.

N = Indicates that facility does not have an emergency room.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


LIC_ED_LEV Level of emergency care offered at hospital. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
EMERGENCY - BASIC = This facility offers basic emergency level care.

EMERGENCY - COMPREHENSIVE = This facility offers comprehensive emergency level care.

EMERGENCY - STANDBY = This facility offers standby emergency level care.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


ACUTE Indicates whether or not the hospital provides acute care. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Hospital does provide acute care.

N = Hospital does not provide acute care.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


ICU Indicates whether or not the hospital has an Intensive Care Unit. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.
Y = Hospital has an ICU.

N = No ICU.

<BLANK> = Unknown or not available.


HOSP_TYPE Indicates the type of hospital. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.

OWNER_TYPE Indicates the type of owner for the hospital. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.

PERM_ID The unique permanent identifier of The National Structures Dataset. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.

GNIS_ID The unique permanent identifier of the Geographic Names Information System that is up to eight (8) digits in length and unique within the nation. The values in this field have not been verified by TGS.

USNG_FL_1K Facility's 1-kilometer United States National Grid (USNG) address. The USNG is an alpha-numeric reference system based on the UTM coordinate system and is similar to the Military Grid Reference System. Use of the USNG ensures a uniform grid mapping and positional reporting system for search and rescue, emergency planning, response, and recovery. How to Read a United States National Grid (USNG) Spatial Address Website - http://www.fgdc.gov/usng/how-to-read-usng/index_html

DESCRIPT Based on the field NAME.

FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


USER NOTES:
See "Attribute_Accuracy_Report". 
Many of the checks described in that section check for both attribute 
accuracy and logical consistency.
Included in this dataset are General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, Psychiatric 
and Substance Abuse Hospitals, and Specialty Hospitals (e.g., Children's 
Hospitals, Cancer Hospitals, Maternity Hospitals, Rehabilitation Hospitals, etc.).

TGS has made a concerted effort to include all general medical/surgical hospitals 
in Florida. Other types of hospitals are included if they were represented in 
datasets sent by the state. Therefore, not all of the specialty hospitals in Florida 
are represented in this dataset.

Hospitals operated by the Veterans Administration (VA) are included, even if the 
state they are located in does not license VA Hospitals.

Nursing homes and Urgent Care facilities are excluded because they are included 
in a separate dataset. Locations that are administrative offices only are excluded 
from the dataset.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM)

FDEM Critical Facilities GIS Layers:
To assist in emergency response and planning, the GIS Lab, working with local, 
state, and federal agencies maintains shelters, emergency operations centers, 
critical facilities, and hazardous material facilities datasets.

"Critical facilities" are defined as those structures from which essential services 
and functions for victim survival, continuation of public safety actions, and disaster 
recovery are performed or provided. Shelters, emergency operation centers, public 
health, public drinking water, sewer and wastewater facilities are examples of 
critical facilities. Though not explicitly included in the definition, supporting life-line 
infrastructure essential to the mission of critical facilities must also be included in 
the inventory when appropriate.

"Critical infrastructure" is defined as those systems and assets, whether physical 
or virtual, so vital that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets 
would have a debilitating impact on security, economy, public health or safety, or 
any combination of these elements.

The Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) is a collection of base map 
layers and homeland security related geospatial data. Currently, the emphasis of 
this program is on sharing and improving data to create uniform state & federal 
information. Working with contractors, the GIS Lab is providing data from state 
and local sources for QA/QC under the HSIP Freedom project.

For more information, please see:  http://www.floridadisaster.org/gis/criticalfacilities/index.htm 

At this time, FDEM does not provide datasets for download, but may be contacted 
(Richard Butgereit 850-413-9907) for further information.

Homeland Security                

Use Cases: Use cases describe how the data may be used and help to define 
and clarify requirements.    

1) A disaster has overwhelmed local medical facilities and capacity must be found
in the surrounding area.  

2) A threat against hospitals has been identified and measures must be taken to 
protect the hospital.    

3) An assessment as to the adequacy of the total capacity to handle emergency 
medical care in a given area needs to be made as part of a disaster mitigation 
plan.    

4) A disaster has occurred, or is in the process of occurring, and facilities in the 
vicinity with people needing evacuation assistance must be identified.

The geographic location of entities was verified to be correct relative to the street 
data and version indicated by the [ST_VENDOR] and [ST_VERSION] fields. The 
horizontal accuracy is indicated by the [GEOPREC] field. A value of 
"BLOCKFACE" indicates the entity was geocoded on the correct street segment 
(block) and correct side of the street. A value of "ONENTITY" indicates that the 
location is on the entity's facility, as determined by USGS DOQQ imagery, and that
it is on the correct street segment (block) and correct side of the street. Entities 
that are part of a larger institution (e.g., University Campus or Military Base) with 
"BLOCKFACE" precision may be located at the main entrance to the larger 
institution.

Records with "-DOD" appended to the end of the [NAME] value are located on a
military base, as defined by the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure 
(DISDI) military installations and military range boundaries.

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

None

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compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from
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A note about data scale: 

Scale is an important factor in data usage.  Certain scale datasets
are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes.
Please be sure you are using the best available data. 

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
county level.
1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such
as property parcel boundaries.
1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
multi-county or regional level.
1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
regional or state level or larger.

Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be
considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data
before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been
made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional
information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
TechniGraphics Fort Collins
http://www.tgstech.com/contact_fort_collins.html

Florida Division of Emergency Management
www.floridadisaster.org/gis

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
1) Entities were processed to determine or verify their name, physical address, city, 
state, five (5) digit zip code, phone number, and geospatial location. Entities not 
located on military bases were contacted and asked to describe their location 
relative to landmarks in reference data (mainly streets) and features visible in ortho 
imagery.
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2) Due to a request made by the Department of Defense, TGS made every effort 
to not contact military bases starting 03/27/2007 and ending 05/28/2008. During 
this time, entities located on military bases were verified through alternate 
resources, such as maps and ortho imagery. These records have not been 
contacted by TGS, and therefore, do not have directions.
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3) All text fields were set to all upper case.
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4) Leading and trailing spaces were trimmed from all text fields. 
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5) Non printable and diacritic characters were removed from all text fields.
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Process Date: 20080920

GeoPlan Center received the data via Email from the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) on July 29, 2009. The original dataset was named: 2008_09_20_FL_Hospitals.shp The original dataset projection was: Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000000 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000000 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224 The dataset was renamed to: fdem_hospitals_aug08.shp The dataset was reprojected to the FGDL Albers NAD83 HARN projection. The dataset features were matched to their 1-kilometer United States National Grid (USNG) address via a spatial join, the USNG address can be found in the USNG_FL_1K field. The USNG is an alpha-numeric reference system based on the UTM coordinate system and is similar to the Military Grid Reference System. Use of the USNG ensures a uniform grid mapping and positional reporting system for search and rescue, emergency planning, response, and recovery. How to Read a United States National Grid (USNG) Spatial Address http://www.fgdc.gov/usng/how-to-read-usng/index_html Three additional fields were added. USNG_FL_1k - based USNG number explained above DESCRIPT field based on NAME FGDLAQDATE field based on the date the data was acquired by FGDL from the source. Finally the attribute table was upper-cased and the metadata was updated. Process Date: 20090929
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20090730
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

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