NYC Hospitals Map Mashup
Health Care That Works has an interesting mashup using Google Maps that shows hospitals in the NYC region. Special attention is paid to hospitals that are slated for closure and downsizing in respect to the neighborhoods they are located. You can select an overlay of either the population living below the poverty level or population of people of color. Check it out!
Update: the administrator of the site contacted us to let us know that the map was created using the datat from the NY State Department of Health and their SPARCS data set, so it is as accurate as it can be according to the best available public record.
January 19th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Hi,
I’m the administrator of Health Care That Works. I’m curious where this discussion about the hospitals is taking place.
Our hospitals our sourced using data from the NY State Department of Health and their SPARCS data set, so it is as accurate as it can be according to the best available public record.
That said, there certainly could be hospitals missing if the data set is incomplete. Another possibility is that people are discussing clinic or other satellite locations, or hospitals have merged.
Either way, please let me know. I’d love to join in the discussion.
mconnery [at] opportunityagenda [dot] org