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Facility-facility type

Identifying and Definitional Attributes

Identifier & Version

QH 040263 v9

Metadata Item Type

Data Element

Data Element Type

Data Element

Approval Status

Current
01-Jul-2012

Superseded
30-Jun-2014

Approval Type

Standard

Approving Authority

Effective From

01-Jul-2012

Effective To

30-Jun-2014

Definition

Classification of type of facility based on characteristics specific to the facility.

Context

Short Name

Facility type

Name in Other Contexts

Establishment

Representational Attributes

Datatype

Numeric Character

Representation Class

Code

Format

N(2)

Minimum Character Length

Maximum Character Length

Permissible Values

Permissible_values

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

Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

Collection and Usage Attributes

Guide for Use

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

New

Verification Rules

Collection Methods

Comments

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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Relationship	Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifier & Version	Approval Status
Supersedes	Data Element	Data Element	Healthcare provider-facility type	QH 040263 Version 8	Superseded
Has been superseded by	Data Element	Data Element	Facility-facility type	QH 040263 Version 10	Superseded
Is used in the derivation of	Data Element	Derived Data Element	Facility-facility type (HSU statistical reporting)	QH 041891 Version 1	Superseded
Relates to	Data Element	Data Element	Contracted hospital care-other hospital identifier	QH 041601 Version 1	Superseded
Relates to	Data Element	Data Element Concept	Facility	QH 041826 Version 1	Superseded

Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifer & Version	Obligation	Approval Status	Effective From	Effective To
Information Asset	Data Collection	Corporate Reference Data System (CRDS) - Facility Data Set	QH 020271 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jul-2012	30-Jun-2014
Information Asset	Data Collection	Monthly Activity Collection (MAC)	QH 020008 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jul-2012	30-Jun-2014
Information Asset	Data Collection	Queensland Cancer Registry (QCR) Data Collection	QH 020002 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jul-2012	30-Jun-2014

Data Quality Declaration

Source and Reference Attributes

Source Organisation

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Source Document

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

Keywords

CRDI; CRDI QHAPDC; CRDI QPDC; Establishment; Facility; Facility type;