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Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040263 v9
Data Element
Data Element
Current
01-Jul-2012
Superseded
30-Jun-2014
Standard
01-Jul-2012
30-Jun-2014
Classification of type of facility based on characteristics specific to the facility.
Facility type
Establishment
Representational Attributes
Numeric Character
Code
N(2)
2
2
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

CodeDescription
01Licensed Private Freestanding Day Surgery Centre
02Licensed Private Day Centre/Hospital
03Licensed Private Hospital - Acute other
06Private Psychiatric Hospital Facility
11Private Alcohol & Drug Residential Facility
13Private Hostels (Excld For Aged) - Non Profit
14Private Hospice
15Private Community Health Centre - Non Profit
16Private Domiciliary Nursing Services - Non Profit
17Private Domiciliary Nursing Services - Profit
18Private Pathology Laboratory
19Private Birthing Centres
20BOOT Hospital
21Licensed Private Acute Hospital - Publicly Funded Activity
22Private Residential Aged Care Service Facility
23Private Young Disabled Residential Care Service Facility
31Public Freestanding Day Surgery Centre
32Public Day Centre/Hospital
33Recognised Public Hospital - Acute Outpost
34Recognised Public Hospital - Acute other
36Public Psychiatric Hospital Facility
39Public Alcohol & Drug Residential Facility
40Public Community Health Facilities
41Public Hostel For Aged - State Government
42Public Hostel For Aged - Local Government
43Public Hostel (Excld for Aged) - State Government
44Public Hostel (Excld for Aged) - Local Government
45Public Hospice
46Public Domiciliary Nursing Services
47Public Pathology Laboratory
48Public Birthing Centres
49Public Community Mental Health Facility
50Public Community Child & Youth Mental Health Facility
51Public Child & Adolescent Community Health
52Public Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Community
53Public Alcohol and Drug - Community
54Sexual Health Services - Community
55Oral Health - Community
56Transition Care Program
57Public Residential Aged Care Service Facility
58Public Young Disabled Residential Care Service Facility
59Public Residential Mental Health Service Facility
62Public Community Health - Program Level
65Public Trading Facility
66Public Health Unit
67Health Contact Centre
68Hospital and Health Service
69Department of Health
71Public Fixed Dental Clinic - School Based
72Public Fixed Dental Clinic - Hospital Based
73Public Fixed Dental Clinic - Community Based
74Public Mobile Dental Clinic
80Commonwealth Hospital - Veterans' Affairs
81Commonwealth Hospital - Defence force
82Other Commonwealth Hospital
85Other Perinatal Codes
86Other QHIPS Codes
87Other Cancer Registry Codes
88Other HRM Codes
89Other Queensland Health Codes
90Interstate facilities
91Overseas
92Correctional Centres
93Independent Living Unit
94Flexible Residential Care Service
99Other Health Services
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

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Collection and Usage Attributes
ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS
Facilities which provide at least minimal medical, surgical or obstetric services for inpatient treatment and/or care, and which provide round-the-clock comprehensive qualified nursing service as well as other necessary professional services. They must be licensed by the State Health department, or controlled by government departments. Most of the patients have acute conditions or temporary ailments and the average stay per admission is relatively short.

Hospitals specialising in dental, ophthalmic aids and other specialised medical or surgical care are included in this category. Hospices (facilities providing palliative care to terminally ill patients) that are freestanding and do not provide any other form of acute care are classified to hospices.

Corresponding facility types:
03 Licensed Private Hospital - Acute other
21 Licensed Private Acute Hospital - Publicly Funded Activity
33 Recognised Public Hospital - Acute Outpost
34 Recognised Public Hospital - Acute other
80 Commonwealth Hospital - Veterans' Affairs
81 Commonwealth Hospital - Defence force
82 Other Commonwealth Hospital

PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
Facilities devoted primarily to the treatment and care of inpatients with psychiatric, mental, or behavioural disorders.

Centres for the non-acute treatment of drug dependence, developmental and intellectual disability are not included here. Excludes institutions mainly providing living quarters or day care.

Private Psychiatric Hospitals:
Private hospitals licensed/approved by the state health authority and catering primarily for patients with psychiatric or behavioural disorders are included in this category.
Corresponding facility type: 06 Private Psychiatric Hospital Facility

Public Psychiatric Hospitals:
Public Psychiatric Hospital Facilities are operated by or on behalf of the state funding authority.
Corresponding facility type: 36 Public Psychiatric Hospital Facility

SAME-DAY FACILITIES
Includes both the traditional day centre/hospital and also freestanding day surgery centres.

Day centres/hospitals:
Facilities providing a course of acute treatment on a full-day or part-day non-residential attendance basis at specified intervals over a period of time. Sheltered workshops providing occupational or industrial training are excluded.
Corresponding facility types:
02 Licensed Private Day Centre/Hospital
32 Public Day Centre/Hospital

Freestanding day surgery centres:
Hospital facilities providing investigation and treatment for acute conditions on a day-only basis and are approved by the Commonwealth for the purposes of basic table health insurance benefits.
Corresponding facility types:
01 Licensed Private Freestanding Day Surgery Centre
31 Public Freestanding Day Surgery Centre

BOOT HOSPITALS
'Build, Own, Operate, Transfer' Hospitals.
Corresponding facility type: 20 BOOT Hospital

HOSPICES
Facilities providing palliative care to terminally ill patients. Only freestanding hospices which do not provide any other form of acute care are included in this category.

Corresponding facility types:
14 Private Hospice
45 Public Hospice

RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE SERVICES
Facilities which provide high level care for people who need 24 hour nursing care, and/or low level care for people who need some assistance. They must be approved by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing / or licensed by the State, or controlled by government departments.

High-level care:
For people who need 24-hour nursing care. This may be because they are physically unable to move around and care for themselves, or because they have a severe dementia-type illness or other behavioural problems. Residents in high care must receive additional care and services at no additional cost.

Low level care:
For people who need some help. Mostly, people in low-level care can walk or move about on their own. The focus is on personal care services (help with dressing, eating, bathing etc.), accommodation, support services (cleaning, laundry and meals) and some allied health services such as physiotherapy. Nursing care can be given when required. Most low-level aged care homes have nurses on staff, or at least have easy access to them.

Private aged care service:
Facilities are operated by private individuals or bodies, including religious and charitable organisations.
Corresponding facility type: 22 Private Residential Aged Care Service Facility

Government aged care service:
Facilities are either operated by or on behalf of a State or Territory government.
Corresponding facility type: 57 Public Residential Aged Care Service Facility

YOUNG DISABLED RESIDENTIAL CARE SERVICES
Facilities which provide long-term care involving regular basic nursing care to young disabled persons.

Government residential care service facilities for young persons with disabilities are either operated by or on behalf of a State or Territory government.
Corresponding facility type: 58 Public Young Disabled Residential Care Service Facility

Private residential care service facilities for young persons with disabilities are operated by private individuals or bodies, including religious and charitable organisations.
Corresponding facility type: 23 Private Young Disabled Residential Care Service Facility

ALCOHOL AND DRUG TREATMENT CENTRES
Freestanding centres for the treatment of drug dependence on an admitted patient basis.
Corresponding facility types:
11 Private Alcohol & Drug Residential Facility
39 Public Alcohol & Drug Residential Facility

HOSTELS AND OTHER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
Facilities run by public authorities or registered non-profit organisation to provide board, lodging or accommodation for the aged, distressed or disabled who cannot live independently but do not need nursing care in a hospital or residential care service. Only hostels subsidised by the Commonwealth are included.

Separate dwellings are not included, even if subject to an individual rental rebate arrangement. Residents are generally responsible for their own provisions, but may be provided in some facilities with domestic assistance (meals, laundry, personal care). Night shelters providing only casual accommodation are excluded.

Corresponding facility types:
13 Private Hostels (Excld For Aged) - Non Profit
41 Public Hostel For Aged - State Government
42 Public Hostel For Aged - Local Government
43 Public Hostel (Excld for Aged) - State Government
44 Public Hostel (Excld for Aged) - Local Government

Public Residential Mental Health Service:
Facilities considered by the state funding authorities as providing a specialised mental health service that:
- has the workforce capacity to provide specialised mental health services; and
- employs suitably trained mental health staff to provide rehabilitation, treatment or extended care on-site:
- to consumers residing on an overnight basis;
- in a domestic-like environment; and
- encourages the consumer to take responsibility for their daily living activities.

These services include those that employ mental health trained staff on-site 24 hours per day and other services with less intensive staffing (but the trained staff must be on site for a minimum of 6 hours a day and at least 50 hours per week).

Corresponding facility type: 59 Public Residential Mental Health Service Facility

NON-RESIDENTIAL HEALTH SERVICES
Services administered by public authorities or registered non-profit organisations which employ full-time equivalent medical or paramedical staff (nurses, nursing aides, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychologists, but not trade instructors or teachers). This definition distinguishes health services from welfare services (not within the scope of the National Minimum Data Project) and thereby excluded such services as sheltered workshops, special schools for the intellectually disabled, meals on wheels and baby clinics offering advisory services but no actual treatment. Non-residential health services should be enumerated in terms of services or organisations rather than in terms of the number of sites at which care is delivered.

Non-residential health services provided by a residential facility (for example, domiciliary nursing service which is part of a public hospital) should not be separately enumerated.

Community Health Centres:
Public or registered non-profit facilities in which a range of non-residential health services is provided in an integrated and coordinated manner, or which provides for the coordination of health services elsewhere in the community.
Corresponding facility types:
15 Private Community Health Centre - Non Profit
40 Public Community Health Facilities

Domiciliary Nursing Services:
Public or registered non-profit or profit making facilities providing nursing or other professional paramedical care or treatment to patients in their own homes or in (non-health) residential institutions. Facilities providing domestic or housekeeping assistance are excluded by the general definition above.
Corresponding facility types:
16 Private Domiciliary Nursing Services - Non Profit
17 Private Domiciliary Nursing Services - Profit
46 Public Domiciliary Nursing Services

BIRTHING CENTRE
A birth centre is a facility where women are able to birth in an environment which:
(a) is freestanding or physically separate from a labour ward but has access to emergency medical facilities for both mother and child if required;
(b) has home-like atmosphere;
(c) focuses on a model of care (eg midwifery model) which ensures continuity of care/caregiver; a family-centred approach; and informed client participation in choices related to the management of care.

Note: Admission to the Birth Centre program is usually based on criteria which address risk factors. Transfer to a labour ward may occur according to criteria where deviation from the normal childbirth process requires medical intervention not accommodated by the birth centre.
("Physically separate" refers to a unit which has self-contained facilities and separate staffing arrangements from a labour ward within the same complex).

Corresponding facility types:
19 Private Birthing Centres
48 Public Birthing Centres

COMMUNITY HEALTH FACILITIES
Non-residential community health facilities that provide specialised community based health services for defined target groups, for example mental health, drug and alcohol, sexual assault.
Corresponding facility types:
51 Public Child & Adolescent Community Health
52 Public Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Community
53 Public Alcohol and Drug - Community
54 Sexual Health Services - Community
55 Oral Health - Community

Public Community Mental Health:
Facilities considered by the state funding authorities as providing a specialised mental health service for consumers, other than those admitted to psychiatric hospitals or specialised mental health service units in acute care hospitals, and those resident in residential mental health services.
Corresponding facility type: 49 Public Community Mental Health Facility

Public Community Child & Youth Mental Health:
A facility considered by the state funding authorities as providing a specialised mental health service primarily targeted at child and youth consumers, other than those admitted to psychiatric hospitals or specialised mental health service units in acute care hospitals, and those resident in residential mental health services.
Corresponding facility type: 50 Public Community Child & Youth Mental Health Facility

COMMUNITY HEALTH - PROGRAM
Community health facilities that represent reporting at program level.
Corresponding facility type: 62 Public Community Health - Program Level

CORRECTIVE SERVICES FACILITIES
Corrective Services facilities include prisons, community corrections centres and work camps.
Corresponding facility type: 92 Correctional Centres

HEALTH CONTACT CENTRE
Responsible for the operation of 13 HEALTH, a 24 hour, seven-day-a-week statewide service providing access to health information, triage and referral to the people of Queensland.
Corresponding facility type: 67 Health Contact Centre

INDEPENDENT LIVING UNITS
Independent Living Units are residential communities that offer a range of services for independent older people, and are regulated by state and territory governments.
Corresponding facility type: 93 Independent Living Unit

MULTI-PURPOSE HEALTH SERVICES
Facilities that provide an integrated service approach for residential, community and respite care for rural and regional areas who are isolated from main stream services or where separate health and aged care services may not be viable. For reporting purposes, the hospital component is reported separately from the Multi-Purpose Health Service.
Corresponding facility type: 94 Flexible Residential Care Service

ORAL HEALTH SERVICES
Core clinical oral health services include specialist support, acute, urgent, routine and prevention/promotion.

Fixed Dental Clinic:
Purpose built facilities that may be attached to schools, community health care centres or hospitals and are utilised for the provision of oral health services.
Corresponding facility types:
71 Public Fixed Dental Clinic - School Based
72 Public Fixed Dental Clinic - Hospital Based
73 Public Fixed Dental Clinic - Community Based

Mobile Dental Clinic:
Purpose built transportable facilities, either towed by a vehicle or self driven and are utilised for the provision of oral health services.
Corresponding facility type: 74 Public Mobile Dental Clinic

ORGANISATIONAL FACILITIES
Public health services in Queensland are provided through Hospital and Health Services (HHS). These are statutory bodies each governed by a Hospital and Health Board.
Corresponding facility type: 68 Hospital and Health Service

The Department of Health is responsible for the overall management of the public health system in Queensland, including monitoring the performance of HHSs.
Corresponding facility type: 69 Department of Health

Service agreements are negotiated between the Department of Health and each HHS. The service agreement determines the services that the department will purchase from the HHS and how much it will pay for the provision of these services (i.e. the level of funding to be provided).

PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES
Facilities that perform a variety of pathology test procedures and microscopic examinations. Pathology laboratories are located within hospitals, clinics, and stand-alone facilities, and are either privately owned or operated by public health agencies.
Corresponding facility types:
18 Private Pathology Laboratory
47 Public Pathology Laboratory

PUBLIC HEALTH
Public Health Units focus on
- protecting health
- preventing disease, illness and injury
- promoting health well-being
at a population/whole of community level. This is distinct from the role of the rest of the health system whose primary focus is on health care services to individuals and families.
Corresponding facility type: 66 Public Health Unit

PUBLIC TRADING FACILITIES
Government facilities licensed to manufacture and/or sell products/services to Queensland Health hospitals.
Corresponding facility type: 65 Public Trading Facility

TRANSITION CARE PROGRAM
Transition Care provides short-term support and active management for older people at the interface of the acute/subacute and residential aged care sectors. It is goal oriented, time limited and targets older people at the conclusion of a hospital episode who require more time and support in a non hospital environment to complete their restorative process, optimise their functional capacity and finalise and access their longer term care arrangements. (Note that while the definition is accurate, the program also includes transition care provided in a community based setting.)
Corresponding facility type: 56 Transition Care Program

COLLECTION/SYSTEM BASED FACILITIES
Facilities created specifically to meet a data collection or information system requirement.
Corresponding facility types:
85 Other Perinatal Codes
86 Other QHIPS (Queensland Hospital Inpatient System) Codes
87 Other Cancer Registry Codes
88 Other HRM (Human Resource Management) Codes
90 Interstate facilities
91 Overseas
99 Other Health Services
This version includes the following changes due to the 2012 health reform: - closure of code 61 Central Office - Queensland Health - closure of code 64 Health Service District - addition of code 68 Hospital and Health Service - addition of code 69 Department of Health Code 60 'Regional Health Authority - Queensland Health' has been closed as it no longer has any relevance.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
SupersedesData ElementData ElementHealthcare provider-facility typeQH 040263 Version 8Superseded
Has been superseded byData ElementData ElementFacility-facility typeQH 040263 Version 10Superseded
Is used in the derivation ofData ElementDerived Data ElementFacility-facility type (HSU statistical reporting)QH 041891 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care-other hospital identifierQH 041601 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptFacilityQH 041826 Version 1Superseded
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionCorporate Reference Data System (CRDS) - Facility Data SetQH 020271 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201230-Jun-2014
Information AssetData CollectionMonthly Activity Collection (MAC)QH 020008 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201230-Jun-2014
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Cancer Registry (QCR) Data CollectionQH 020002 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201230-Jun-2014
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
METeOR identifier 269971 Establishment-establishment type, sector and services provided code AN.N{.N}, Health, Standard 01/03/2005 https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/269971/meteorItemView/long