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911 Communication Centers

Facility equipped and staffed to receive 911 calls, and dispatches appropriate public safety agencies to respond to those calls.

City/County Administration Buildings

Facility where official city or county business is conducted.  This is the building where the mayor or county commissions work from.

District and Municipal Courts

Enclosed space in which a judge regularly holds court either at the district or municipal (city) level.

Emergency Management Facilities

Facility where county or city emergency management officials conduct business.  May also serve as the County Emergency Operations Center.

EMS Stations

A location where emergency medical equipment is stored and personnel are assigned.

Fire Stations

A location where fire equipment is stored and personnel are assigned.

Law Enforcement Offices

A location where law enforcement officers are assigned, at the federal, state, county, city level or private contractor.

Public Works

A location where public works, road & bridge are assigned at the state, county or city level.  This also includes areas where public works equipment is stored.

Prisons

A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment.

Urgent Care Facilities

A public or private hospital-based or free-standing facility, that includes x-ray and laboratory equipment and a life support system, licensed or legally operating as an Urgent Care Facility, primarily providing minor Emergency and episodic medical care with one or more Physicians, Nurses, and x-ray technicians in attendance at all times when the facility is open.

Health Facilities

Any location at which medicine is practiced regularly.  Medical facilities range from small clinics and doctor’s offices to large hospitals with elaborate emergency rooms and trauma centers. See listing at end of this document for Health Facility Types.

Doctor Offices

Any office that contains doctors that do not fit under Health Facilities or Dentist Offices (NOTE: Chiropractors are located under health facilities)

Dentist Offices

              A building where dentist conduct business.

Nursing Homes/Assisted Living Facilities

An institution where people are cared for; “a home for the elderly”.  A facility for the care of individuals who do not require hospitalization and who cannot be cared for at home.

Health Departments

A part of government which focuses on issues related to general health of citizenry.

Pharmacies

A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.

Durable Medical Equipment Locations

The term durable medical equipment is one most used by Medicare and Social Security to describe medical devices that are needed by a patient for specialized medical care in a patient’s home or long-term care institution.

This equipment can include transportation assistance, canes, crutches, bed-lifts, breathing apparatuses and some diabetic supplies. Durable Medical Equipment or DME, is a specified paid Medicare benefit for people who need at-home assistance following an accident or illness. This care may be considered temporary or permanent.

In order for equipment to be considered durable medical equipment, it must be reusable.

Reusable medical equipment would include things like wheelchairs, crutches, blood-glucose monitors and the strips used in them. It also includes things like chair-lifts, where the lift mechanism is covered, but the chair is often not covered.

Funeral Homes/Crematories

A business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families.  A building or facility that holds the equipment necessary for cremation.

Pre-Schools

The provision of education for children before the commencement of statutory education, usually between the ages of three and five, dependent on the jurisdiction.  Preschool is also known as nursery school.

Elementary, Middle, High Schools (public and private)

A school for children; elementary – Kindergarten to 5th grade; middle – 6th to 8th grade; high school – 9th to 12th grade.

Post-Secondary Schools (colleges, vocational techs, etc)

An educational institution that provides education beyond secondary (post high school).

Stadiums

A facility where sporting event are held, either stand alone or part of an educational facility.

Fairgrounds

An open area for holding fairs, exhibitions or circuses.

Zoos

A facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition.

Parks

A large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property; a piece of open land for recreational use in urban areas.  Either local or state.

Hotel/Motels

A building where travelers can pay for lodging, meals and other services.

Places of Worship

An establishment or location where a group of people (a congregation) comes to perform acts of religious praise, honor, or devotion.

Convention Centers

A facility where expositions and/or conferences are held.

Livestock Concentration

A location where livestock are fattened for market; A location used for finishing livestock prior to slaughter; a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk.

Meat and Poultry Packing Plants

A facility that handles the slaughtering, processing and distribution of meat.

Grain Elevators

A building or complexes of buildings for storage and shipment of grain.

Veterinarian Offices

A facility where a physician for animals conducts business from.

Pet Shelters

A structure that provides privacy and protection from danger for pets.

Chemical Facilities

A facility where chemicals are stored, manufactured or used.

Airports, Heliports, and Balloonports

A location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land.

Emergency Communication Antenna and Towers

A guyed, monopole, or self-supporting tower, constructed as a free standing structure or in association with a building, other permanent structure communication equipment for first responders is installed.

Emergency Shelters

A structure that provides privacy and protection from danger for humans.

Mobile Home Parks

An area specifically designed to allow for permanent or semi-permanent stations of mobile homes.

Siren Locations

A location where a warning siren (tornado, etc) is located.

Cemeteries

A location where the deceased are buried or entombed.

Libraries

A location that serves the public as a location where books and other media can be loaned out.

Gas Stations

A location that provides fuel for the general public or public agencies.

Hardware Stores/Lumber Yards

A location that sell hardware and lumber.

Grocery Stores

A location that sells food, drinks and other necessary items.

Swimming Pools

A location where swimming facilities are open to the public.

Campgrounds

A location where the public can camp overnight or for an extended period of time. This includes sites with electric and water hook-ups and those that do not.

Health Facility Definitions

Ambulatory Surgical Center

an establishment with an organized medical staff of one or more physicians; with permanent facilities that are equipped and operated primarily for the purpose of performing surgical procedures; with continuous physician services during surgical procedures and until the patient has recovered from the obvious effects of anesthetic and at all other times with physician services whenever a patient is the facility; with continuous registered professional nursing services whenever a patient is in the facility; and which does not provide services or other accommodations for patients to stay more than 24 hours.

Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility

a Medicare certified nonresidential facility that is established and operated exclusively for the purpose of providing diagnostic, therapeutic, and restorative services to outpatients for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled, or sick persons, at a single fixed location, by or under the supervision of a physician.

Critical Access Hospital

a member of a rural health network which makes available 24 hour emergency care services; provides not more than 15 acute inpatient beds for providing inpatient care for a period not to exceed 96 hours (with certain exceptions); provides inpatient extended care services (if approved for swing bed status) so long as the combined total of extended care and acute care beds does not exceed 25 ; and provides nursing services under the direction of a licensed professional nurse and continuous professional nursing services for not less than 24 hours of every day when any bed is occupied or the facility is open to provide services for patients (with exceptions).

Dialysis Facility

a Medicare certified supplier of at least one End Stage Renal Disease treatment service such as dialysis, transplantation and self-dialysis/home dialysis training.

Home Health Agency

a public or private agency or organization or a subdivision or subunit of such agency or organization that provides for a fee one or more home health services at the residence of a patient but does not include local health departments which are not federally certified home health agencies, durable medical equipment companies which provide home health services by use of specialized equipment, independent living agencies, the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Hospice

a Medicare certified public agency or private organization or subdivision of either of these that is primarily engaged in providing care to terminally ill (i.e. with a medical prognosis of 6 months or less to live) individuals.

Hospital

an establishment with an organized medical staff of physicians; with permanent facilities that include inpatient beds; and with medical services, including physician services, and continuous registered professional nursing services for not less than 24 hours of every day, to provide diagnosis and treatment for patients who have a variety of medical conditions.

Outpatient Provider of Physical/Other Therapy

a Medicare certified rehabilitation agency which provides at a minimum physical therapy or speech-language pathology services and social or vocational adjustment services as part of a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation program.

Portable X-ray

a Medicare certified supplier of portable x-ray examination services ordered by a doctor of medicine or osteopathy.

Psychiatric Hospital

either a private psychiatric hospital licensed by SRS and certified by Medicare or a state psychiatric hospital licensed by KDHE and certified by Medicare.

Rural Health Clinic

a Medicare certified outpatient clinic located in a rural area designated as a shortage area, is not a rehabilitation agency or a facility primarily for the care and treatment of mental diseases which furnishes those diagnostic and therapeutic services and supplies commonly furnished in a physician's office and which, unless granted a waiver, uses a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner at least 50% of the time the clinic operates.

Special Hospital

an establishment with an organized medical staff of physicians; with permanent facilities that include inpatient beds; and with medical services, including physician services, and continuous registered professional nursing services for not less than 24 hours of every day, to provide diagnosis and treatment for patients who have specified medical conditions.

Chiropractor

a medical professional who can diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine, under the hypothesis that these disorders affect general health via the nervous system.

Doctor Office

any facility other than a hospital that does not qualify under any other category.

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