Hospice

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Logo. Feature : Hospice
One example for Feature : Hospice
Description
Facility for both, permanent palliative and nursing care
Group

Health

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A  Hospice is a facility providing both, permanent palliative and nursing care, 24 hours a day, to dying or terminally or chronically ill people as well as support to their relatives. Thus it has a different focus in comparison with a nursing home.

OpenStreetMap has currently two methods to tag such facilities:

Related facilities

  • The hub of an ambulatory nursing service, providing palliative and nursing care to patients living in their homes, can be tagged amenity=social_facility + social_facility=ambulatory_care. Typically such hub is recognizable by a fleet of vehicles for the nurses on their daily visits. If they are specialised in palliative care only, social_facility:for=terminal_ill can be added.
  • A Hospice association, operating an office providing consultancy and support to relatives of terminally ill people, but no daily nursing, can be tagged as office=hospice.