Health Facility

https://publicschema.org/HealthFacility

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A service point where clinical or preventive health services are delivered, such as a hospital, health center, health post, dispensary, specialty clinic, pharmacy, or diagnostic laboratory. HealthFacility specializes ServicePoint for the health sector and carries additional properties for facility type (SARA/HHFA category) and facility level (primary / secondary / tertiary / quaternary tier of care). HealthFacility is distinct from the Organization that owns or manages it (captured via managed_by) and from its administrative site (captured via located_at): the organization can change without the physical facility moving, and a facility can serve several administrative Locations. Facility typology references the WHO Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) and the Harmonized Health Facility Assessment (HHFA) taxonomies.

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Supertypes

ServicePoint

Properties

Property Type Definition
Identity
Service point name from ServicePoint string The human-readable name of the service point.
Identifiers from ServicePoint concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Classification
Service point type from ServicePoint string (service-point-type)
The category of service this point provides (health, education, distribution, WASH, etc.).
Facility type string (health-facility-type)
The functional category of a health facility per WHO SARA/HHFA (hospital, health center, health post, etc.).
Facility level string (health-facility-level)
The tier of care provided per national/WHO classification (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary).
Operational status from ServicePoint string (facility-operational-status)
Whether the service point is currently operational, partially operational, or non-functional.
Location
Located at from ServicePoint concept:Location The administrative or geographic location where this service point sits.
Governance
Managed by from ServicePoint concept:Organization
The organization that operates or manages this service point (government agency, NGO, UN agency, private provider).

Evidence

Present in 2 of 6 mapped delivery systems.

HealthFacility is informed primarily by two WHO-maintained non-PublicSchema systems: the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) Reference Manual, which defines the canonical facility-type taxonomy, and the Harmonized Health Facility Assessment (HHFA), which consolidates and extends SARA alongside the Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) into a unified assessment framework. Neither of the six v1 convergence systems (OpenCRVS, openIMIS, OpenSPP, DHIS2, DCI, SEMIC) carries a first-class HealthFacility concept at this level of specification, though DHIS2 organisation units and openIMIS health facility records cover adjacent responsibilities. A broader convergence pass including HeRAMS and national health facility registries is expected to raise the system_count.

Standard Equivalent Match
schema.org MedicalOrganization close
schema.org MedicalOrganization conflates the medical organization and the physical place where care is delivered into a single class. PublicSchema separates them: HealthFacility is the physical facility (subtype of ServicePoint), and the operating Organization is referenced via managed_by. The overlap is close on the facility-level concept and partial on the organizational side.

Referenced by this concept

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