# Organization vs Location resources in A Hospital

**Category:** [FHIR](https://openhealthhub.org/c/fhir/31)
**Created:** 2019-05-07 09:01 UTC
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**Replies:** 1
**URL:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/organization-vs-location-resources-in-a-hospital/2070

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## Post #1 by @Tharma

Hi,

The physical wards in a hospital can be mapped to Location resources. When it comes to Organization, it's bit confusing ? is that the hospital itself maps to Organization or are there any department in the hospital that can be mapped to Organization Resource?

thanks

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## Post #2 by @mayfield.g.kev

I noted this issue in this post https://www.openhealthhub.org/t/operational-fhir-encounter-example/2060

If you search for **Leeds General Infirmary** https://directory.spineservices.nhs.uk/STU3/Organization?name=Leeds%20General%20Infirmary (works best in postman)

You get back of what I would see as a mix of Organisations and Locations. 
Leeds Teaching Teaching Trust would probably treat RR801 as an department (so **Organisation**) and sub divide that into **Location**s.

I'm guessing Cambridge refer to LGI as an Organisation with this code https://directory.spineservices.nhs.uk/STU3/Organization/RGT1G

I'm not sure what Yorkshire Ambulance Service mean with this code. 
https://directory.spineservices.nhs.uk/STU3/Organization/RX885 
I suspect this is used in this context: the ambulance is going to RX885 Location (this location should have managingOrganization of RR8 or RR801)

HL7v2 also has this issue which comes from etrust dataset (from https://digital.nhs.uk/services/organisation-data-service/data-downloads/other-nhs-organisations) being used as both Locations and Organizations. Majority of codes in this dataset appear to be Locations with a smaller number being (heavily) used as Organizations.

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