Identification and Characteristics

Hospital Name, address, and telephone number
Hospital name, address and telephone number are taken from three sources according to the following precedence:

• Information may be collected and updated as the result of direct communications with hospitals, news items, etc.  Such information has highest precedence over other sources.
• Information may be collected or updated directly from a hospital's website.
• Information for hospitals without websites may be taken from their most recent Medicare cost report and/or the Medicare Provider of Services file.  (Data for these hospitals are updated quarterly as new versions of these files become available.  Data from these sources is only used when information is not available from a website or through direct communications.)

Notes
Notes are continually updated to reflect important information regarding mergers, new ownership, changes in operations, etc.

Hospital Website
A hospital's website address is obtained from various public resources and continuously verified by AHD.  Resources include search engines, industry associations, web directories, etc.

Provider Number
All facilities that participate in the Medicare program are assigned a federal Medicare Provider Number.  This number identifies a hospital for claims processing, cost reporting etc.

Type of Facility
The type of facility is determined from the last four digits of its Medicare provider number:

	Short Term Acute Care	0001-0899
	Childrens	3300-3399
	Critical Access	1300-1399
	Long Term	2000-2299
	Psychiatric	4000-4499
	Rehabilitation	3025-3099
	Other	none of above

Type of Control
A hospital's type of control is taken from its most recent Medicare cost report:

• Voluntary Nonprofit, Church
• Voluntary Nonprofit, Other
• Proprietary, Individual
• Proprietary, Corporation
• Proprietary, Partnership
• Proprietary, Other
• Governmental, Federal
• Governmental, City-County
• Governmental, County
• Governmental, State
• Governmental Hospital District
• Governmental, City
• Governmental, Other

Total Staffed Beds
The number of staffed beds is taken from a hospital's most recent Medicare cost report (W/S S-3, Part I, col.1).  Cost report instructions define staffed beds as, "the number of beds available for use by patients at the end of the cost reporting period.  A bed means an adult bed, pediatric bed, birthing room, or newborn bed maintained in a patient care area for lodging patients in acute, long term, or domiciliary areas of the hospital. Beds in labor room, birthing room, postanesthesia, postoperative recovery rooms, outpatient areas, emergency rooms, ancillary departments, nurses' and other staff residences, and other such areas which are regularly maintained and utilized for only a portion of the stay of patients (primarily for special procedures or not for inpatient lodging) are not termed a bed for these purposes."  Note that beds by unit are reported elsewhere on this report.

Total Patient Revenue
The total patient revenue (inpatient and outpatient) is taken from a hospital's most recent Medicare Cost Report (W/S G-2, part I, line 25, column 10).

Total Discharges
The total number of inpatient discharges (all payors)  is taken from a hospital's most recent Medicare Cost Report (W/S S-3, part I, line 12, column 15).

Total Patient Days
The total number of patient days (all payors) is taken from a hospital's most recent Medicare Cost Report (W/S S-3, part I, line 12, column 6).