Facility

Definition

A facility in Care is a hospital, clinic, health center, or other place that provides care to patients. . The facility is the top-level unit that holds departments, users, patients, and encounters.

Key Attributes

Components	What it captures
Facility Name	The name of the facility. This is required.
Description	A description of the facility. This is optional, and it supports formatted text.
Facility Type	The kind of facility. This is required.
Features	The services or capabilities available at the facility. This is optional, and you can choose any number of them.
Phone Number	The contact number of the facility. This is required.
Address	The street address of the facility. This is required.
PIN Code	The 6-digit postal code of the facility. This is required.
Geo Organization	The government administrative area that the facility belongs to. This is required.
Latitude	The map coordinate of the facility from north to south. This is optional.
Longitude	The map coordinate of the facility from west to east. This is optional.
Make this facility public	Whether the facility appears in the public facility directory. This is optional.
Cover Photo	An image that Care shows on the page of the facility. This is optional.

Permissions

Permission	What it allows
Can Create on Facility	Create a new facility.
Can Update on Facility	Edit the details of a facility.
Can Create Facility Organizations	Create departments or teams in a facility.
Can Manage Facility Organizations	Rename or edit the departments or teams of a facility.
Can Delete Facility Organizations	Delete the departments or teams of a facility.
Can List Users in a Facility Organizations	See the users in a department of a facility.
Can Manage Users in a Facility Organization	Add a user to a department of a facility, remove a user from it, or change the role of a user in it.

Note: Only a system administrator can delete a facility. Deletion does not use one of the permissions above.

Note: When you create a facility, Care creates a default Administration department for it. Care also adds you to that department as its Facility Admin.

Related

• Flow: Create a facility
• Flow: View a facility
• Flow: Update facility details
• Flow: Delete a facility