Hospital Listing Policy | What We Include and Exclude

Listing Policy

What Hospitals and Health Facilities We Include

A hospital directory becomes useful only when naming is precise. This policy explains how we choose hospital pages, how we handle branches, campus names, health-system pages, urgent care centers, clinics and duplicate locations.

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Facilities We Usually Include

General hospitals and medical centers
Children’s hospitals
VA hospitals and medical centers
Critical access hospitals and rural hospitals
Specialty hospitals when the public searches them as a hospital location
Large health-system campuses with separate address/contact pages
Hospital emergency departments when they have a distinct public-facing page

Facilities We Treat Carefully

Facility type	Policy	Reason
Urgent care	Usually separate from hospital pages unless owned by the hospital and searched as a campus	Urgent care is not the same as an emergency department
Outpatient clinics	Included only when users search the clinic as part of a hospital system	Prevents mixing small clinics with hospital campuses
Surgery centers	Handled as outpatient/surgical facilities, not general hospitals	Different facility type and patient workflow
Nursing homes/rehab	Included only if connected to a hospital search intent	Avoids wrong healthcare-category matching
Health centers	Cross-checked with HRSA Find a Health Center where relevant	Federally funded health centers are important but not hospitals

Duplicate Handling

If the same hospital has multiple branches or campuses in different cities, we keep separate pages.
If a keyword is only a spelling variant of the same hospital and same location, we consolidate it.
If a hospital changed names after merger or acquisition, we mention the old name only where it helps users identify the current official page.
If a health system has many hospitals, we avoid a generic page unless users are clearly searching the system itself.

Publication Quality Gate

Official page found
Address or location source verified
At least one practical action route verified
No medical-treatment guidance included
Correction/update path available
Last reviewed date added before publish

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