Hospitals in New Mexico include General Medical, Psychiatric, Substance Abuse, and Specialty facilities. The dataset specifically includes hospitals operated by the Veterans Administration and those on military bases, indicated by '-DOD' appended to names. Data fields have been standardized to uppercase English characters without diacritics for database compatibility.
Use Cases
- Map hospital locations and types (e.g., General Medical, Psychiatric, Specialty) for regional healthcare access analysis.
- Identify facilities on military bases by filtering for records where the [NAME] field ends with '-DOD'.
- Analyze the distribution of hospital categories, such as Veterans Administration hospitals versus state-licensed facilities.
Strengths
- Includes multiple hospital types: General Medical and Surgical, Psychiatric, Substance Abuse, and Specialty Hospitals.
- Explicitly includes Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals, even in states that do not license them.
- Text data is standardized to uppercase English characters without diacritics to ensure consistent search results.
Limitations
- The dataset does not include all specialty hospitals in New Mexico, as noted in the description.
- Nursing homes and urgent care facilities are excluded, as they are in a separate dataset.
- Administrative office-only locations are excluded, which may omit some related facilities.
Provenance
- Source
- Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico
- Collection Method
- Compiled from state-provided datasets with a concerted effort to include all general medical/surgical hospitals.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- New Mexico, United States