Create a healthcare location
Create healthcare locations to designate the locations in which your care teams operate.
Before you begin
Role required: admin
About this task
Healthcare locations are the physical or virtual places where care and operational work occur—campuses, buildings, wings, units, rooms, and other serviceable spaces. .
The Healthcare Location [sn_hcls_location] table stores details of the location associated with your healthcare organization.
For more information, see Setting up healthcare locations and healthcare organizations and Healthcare location table.
Procedure
Navigate to All > HCLS Service Management > Organization data > Healthcare location.
Select New.
Fill in the following fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Name to identify the healthcare location. |
| Physical type | Physical form of the location. The following types are available by default: - Area - Bed - Building - Cabinet - Corridor - Jurisdiction - Level - Room - Road - Site - Vehicle - Wing - Ward For more information about the available physical types, see location types defined in the FHIR specifications. |
| Parent location | The parent location of this healthcare location. Set your parent location to create a hierarchy of locations in which the current healthcare location is nested under that parent location. For more information, see Example - Organizing your healthcare locations. |
| Location | Physical location of this healthcare location. Entry selected here populates address fields. Value here references the Common Location \[cmn\_location\] table. |
| Latitude | Latitude of the absolute geographic location. |
| Longitude | Longitude of the absolute geographic location. |
| Altitude | Altitude of the absolute geographic location. |
| Status | Option to indicate whether the healthcare location is in use. The following statuses are available by default: - Active - Inactive - Suspended For more information about the available statuses, see location statuses defined in the FHIR specifications. |
| Street | Mailing street address of the physical location. |
| City | City in which the physical location is located. |
| State/Province | State or province in which the physical location is located. |
| Zip / Postal Code | ZIP or postal code for the physical location. |
| Phone | Phone number of the physical location. |
| Identifier | Unique identifier associated with this location. |
| Description | A description of this healthcare location. |
- Select Submit.