Context This dataset contains locations of Hospitals for 50 US states, Washington D.C., US territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and Virgin Islands. Content This feature class/shapefile contains locations of Hospitals for 50 US states, Washington D.C., US territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and Virgin Islands. The dataset only includes hospital facilities based on data acquired from various state departments or federal sources which has been referenced in the SOURCE field. Hospital facilities which do not occur in these sources will be not present in the database. The source data was available in a variety of formats (pdfs, tables, webpages, etc.) which was cleaned and geocoded and then converted into a spatial database. The database does not contain nursing homes or health centers. Hospitals have been categorized into children, chronic disease, critical access, general acute care, long term care, military, psychiatric, rehabilitation, special, and women based on the range of the available values from the various sources after removing similarities.In this version any information contained in ADDRESS2 field found in earlier versions of this dataset has been merged with the ADDRESS field and the ADDRESS2 field has been deleted.In this update 75 additional records were added and the TRAUMA field was populated for 574 additional hospitals. Acknowledgements This dataset was downloaded on March 23, 2019 from: https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/a2817bf9632a43f5ad1c6b0c153b0fab_0 This dataset is provided by the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) without a license and for Public Use. HIFLD Open GP - Public Health Shared By: jrayer_geoplatform Data Source: services1.arcgis.com Users are advised to read the data set's metadata thoroughly to understand appropriate use and data limitations.