Definitions - Hospital Profile

Identifying information about a hospital is taken from data sources maintained by the American Hospital Directory. This information may also be supplemented by information provided by individual hospitals.

• Identification (name, address, and phone number)

• Website

• Type of control is taken from a hospital's most recent Medicare cost report (HCRIS) file.

• A hospital's geographic information (e.g. county, and Metropolitan Statistical Area) are determined through commercial geocoding based on the hospital's address. Please note that MSAs are based on the 2000 standards that supersede 1990 standards.

• Utilization statistics and volumes by type of payer are obtained from a hospital's most recent Medicare cost report. Data are updated as more recent information becomes available:

  	Beds:	W/S S-3, part I, col 1
  	Inpatient Days:	W/S S-3, part I, col 4-6
  	Discharges:	W/S S-3, part I, col 15
  	Average Length of Stay:	Calculated: Days / Discharges
  	Average Daily Census:	Calculated: Days / 365

• The presence of a clinical service is determined using data from a hospital's most recent Medicare Cost Report, Medicare inpatient claims data, Medicare outpatient claims data, and other sources.