Location

This topic describes information for the Location resource.

To interact with the REST endpoints in the Location resource, see Location.

Overview

The Location resource describes physical places where healthcare services are provided. In Millennium, facilities are the top level of the patient location hierarchy. A facility is also an Organization resource that is associated with patient locations. All facilities are organizations, but not all organizations are facilities. A location can also be an ambulatory patient care area such as a clinic or an emergency room. The location hierarchy from highest to lowest is facility, building, nursing unit, room, and bed.

This resource supports the following HL7 FHIR US Core Implementation Guide STU 4.0.0 profile:

• US Core Location Profile

Note:

The examples provided here are non-normative and replaying them in the public sandbox is not guaranteed to yield the results shown on the site.

Fields

• Location ID

• Status

• Name

• Alias

• Identifier

• Mode

• Telecom

• Address

• Physical Type

• Managing Organization

• Part Of

• Extensions including custom attribute (for more information, see the Custom Extensions section of this topic)

Terminology Bindings

• Location.identifier.type

  Description: The type used to determine which identifier to use for a specific purpose.

  Details: For more information, see Code Set ##### XXXXX under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

  System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/73

• Location.physicalType

  Description: The physical form of the location.

  • Details: Location physicalType

    System: https://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/location-physical-type

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 222 Location Type under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/222

• Location.extension[x].extension[x].valueCodeableConcept

  Description: The value of the client-defined custom attribute. This binding is used for the custom-attribute-value extension nested under custom-attribute extensions.

  Note:

  • The terminology binding only applies when the custom-attribute-value extension is of the CodeableConcept type.
  • The value of the custom attribute is not limited to a single code set or nomenclature.

  • Details: For more information, see the Proprietary Codes section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/<code set>

  • Details: For more information, see Nomenclature under the Proprietary Systems section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/nomenclature

• Location.status

  Description: The status of the location.

  • Details: Active location

  • Details: Inactive location

• Location.mode

  Description: An indication of whether a resource instance represents a specific location or a class of locations.

  Details: Instance

• Location.telecom

  Description: The contact details of communication devices available at the location. This information can include phone numbers, fax numbers, mobile numbers, email addresses and web sites.

  Details: Location Telecom System

• Location.type

  Description: A distinction between physical addresses (those you can visit) and mailing addresses (for example, PO Boxes and care-of addresses). Most addresses are both.

  Details: Location Address Type

• Location.use

  Description: The purpose of this address.

  Details: Location Address Use

Custom Extensions

All URLs for custom extensions are defined as https://fhir-ehr.cerner.com/r4/StructureDefinition/{id}.

Table - Custom Extensions

ID	Value[x} Type	Description
custom-attribute	None (contains nested extensions)	A client-defined custom attribute for the resource. Attribute values can be the following types: integer, string, or CodeableConcept.