FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: FLORIDA HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - 2009

Geodataset Name:       GC_HEALTH_JUL09
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         3747
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains 2009 Health Care Facility Information for the State of Florida. It is a combination of health care facilities (Abortion Clinic, Dialysis Clinic, Medical Doctor, Nursing Home, Osteopath, State Laboratory/Clinic, and Surgicenter/Walk-In Clinic) from the Florida Department of Health. The data contains selected fields denoting the name, physical address, and other facility information for health care facilities located in Florida. This data is meant to be used for planning purposes only and is not intended to represent a 100% inventory of Health Care in Florida. Please Note: Hospitals are no longer located in the GC_HEALTH_JUL09 layer, instead hospital locations can be found in the GC_HOSPITAL_APR09 layer. This dataset is an update the FGDL layer GC_HEALTH_SEP05.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     VARIES
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20090804 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 20031003 End Date: 20090729 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: GC_HEALTH_JUL09.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
Status
1 String
Score
2 SmallInteger
Side
1 String
Match_addr
103 String
NAME
100 String
ADDRESS
65 String
CITY
30 String
ZIPCODE
4 Integer
PHONE
20 String
COUNTY
20 String
TYPE
40 String
OPERATING
50 String
OP_CLASS
20 String
COMMON_USE
4 String
USE
50 String
CAPACITY
4 Integer
BEDS
4 Integer
YR_BUILT
2 SmallInteger
CENSUSID
15 String
LAT_DD
8 Double
LONG_DD
8 Double
USNG_FL_1K
10 String
DESCRIPT
100 String
FLAG
5 String
UPDATE_DAY
36 Date
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

Status ESRI item which denotes the status of the geocoded address whether it was matched or not).

Score ESRI item which denotes the score with which the address was matched to a feature in the reference data.

Side ESRI item which denotes the side of the street to which the address was matched (for geocoding service styles that can match an address to a particular side of a street).

Match_addr ESRI item which denotes the full street layer address to which the address was matched.

NAME Name of the facility.

ADDRESS A description of a facility's physical location providing direction for delivery and provision of emergency services

CITY City of facility's physical location.

ZIPCODE US postal delivery designation of facility's physical location.

PHONE The phone number of the facility.

COUNTY County of facility's physical location.

TYPE Category of health care facility.

OPERATING The responsible organization for management and operation of a facility (e.g., public, private, quasi-public) .

OP_CLASS Classification of the operating entity.

COMMON_USE Location of two or more uses in one facility or on common grounds so as to share common facilities.

USE Description of co-located use, if applicable.

CAPACITY Capacity of the facility.

BEDS Number of beds in the facility.

YR_BUILT 4-digit year when facility began operations

CENSUSID Census Identification Number.

LAT_DD Latitude in decimal degrees.

LONG_DD Longitude in decimal degrees.

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.

FLAG Type of update that occurred
A = Attribute edit

S = Spatial edit

B = Both attribute and spatial edit

N = New

D = Delete

NIN = Not In New.


UPDATE_DAY The date the data was last updated by the Source.

FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
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Please Note: This data is not intended to represent a 100% inventory of all 
health care facilities in Florida.  If other health care facility locations are 
required for ETDM purposes please contact the GeoPlan Center via email: 
data@fgdl.org

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Please Note: The following point data represents only GeoCoded features, these 
points HAVE NOT been validated via QAQC methods such as aerials or parcels.

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Please Note: Duplicate address points may exist where more than one 
health care function occurs.

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What is Geocoding?
Geocoding is term used to describe the act of address matching.  Geocoding
is the process of finding a geographic location (x, y point) for an address
(such as street number and name, city, state, and ZIP Code) on a map.
Geocoding is based off the typical address scheme for the US, in which one
side of the street contains even house numbers while the other side of the
street contains odd house numbers.

The geocoding process uses an algorithm to find the geographic location
of addresses. First, a street segment is identified using the zip code and
street name. Next, the geographic location of the address is matched using
the building number to determine how far down the street and on which side
of the street the building is located.

Geocoding Accuracy
The locational accuracy of geocoded addresses may vary from urban to rural
areas due to the algorithm used to generate the geographic locations of
addresses. The algorithm assumes that the size of parcels are equivalent
along a road route. This assumption tends to be more consistent in urban
areas, where the size of parcels vary less than in rural areas.
Consequently, the results of geocoded addresses in urban areas are usually
more reliable than those in rural areas.

For example, the locational accuracy of rural addresses can be slightly
off because some parcels along a rural route may be 15 acres while others
may be 2.5 acres, but the geocoding algorithm assumes that the addresses
are distributed evenly along the route.

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS systems for
a variety of planning and analytical purposes.

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

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

None

The Florida Geographic Data Library is a collection of Geospatial Data
compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from
the Florida Department of Transportation. GIS data available in FGDL is
collected from various state, federal, and other agencies (data sources)
who are data stewards, producers, or publishers. The data available in
FGDL may not be the most current version of the data offered by the
data source. University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no guarantees
about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check
with the data source to see if more recent versions of the data exist.

Furthermore, the GIS data available in the FGDL are provided 'as is'.
The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no warranties, guaranties
or representations as to the truth, accuracy or completeness of the data
provided by the data sources. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center
makes no representations or warranties about the quality or suitability
of the materials, either expressly or implied, including but not limited
to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, or non-infringement. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center
shall not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using,
modifying, contributing or distributing the materials.

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:
Florida Department of Health
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/programs/ehgis/EhGisDownload.htm

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
GeoPlan Center Process Steps:
Government building locations were obtained from the following 
Florida Department of Health website
in August of 2009:

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/programs/EhGis/EhGisDownload.htm

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FDOH

BioMedicalWaste.shp
Point
RECORD COUNT = 36009
20090729
Albers, Datum North American 1983, Units: Meters
N/A
Florida Department of Health
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/programs/ehgis/EhGisDownload.htm

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GeoPlan downloaded this data and exported a subset of the .dbf / Attribute Table.
The subset included:
   ABORTION CLINIC
   DIALYSIS CLINIC
   MEDICAL DOCTOR (with Clinic, Medical Center, or Health Center in the name)
   NURSING HOME
   OSTEOPATH (with Clinic in the name)
   STATE LABORATORY/CLINIC
   SURGICENTER/WALK-IN CLINIC

The dbf was then geocoded against Teleatlas Roads 2009 and converted into 
a shapefile with the FGDL Albers HPGN map projection. (See "Map Projection
Parameters" below).

Next GeoPlan Center performed the following attribute table adjustments.

-Upper cased all records.
-Added DESCRIPT field based on NAME
-Socio-Cultural Effect data fields and definitions were added. 
 FLAG, UPDATE_DAY, NAME, ADDRESS, CITY,
 ZIPCODE, OPERATING, OP_CLASS, SERVICES, COMMON_USE
 USE, YR_BUILT, FGDLAQDATE.

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Please Note: This data is not intended to represent a 100% inventory of all 
health care facilities in Florida.  If other health care facility locations are 
required for ETDM purposes please contact the GeoPlan Center via email: 
data@fgdl.org

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Please Note: The following point data represents only GeoCoded features, these 
points HAVE NOT been validated via QAQC methods such as aerials or parcels.

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Please Note: Duplicate address points may exist where more than one 
health care function occurs.

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Process Date: 20090804

Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20090805
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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