Concepts/Department

conceptfacilityCARE 3.0+

Facility

Concepts

Facility

Department Location Healthcare Service

Device

Flows

Create a facility

View a facility Update facility details Delete a facility Create a department Update a department Add users to a department Delete a department Create a location View locations Edit a location Reorder locations Delete a location

Manage a location's organizations

References

Facility

Facility Config Facility Flag Location Healthcare Service

Device

A department in Care is a group inside a facility, such as a ward, a clinical team, or an administrative unit. A department can hold sub-departments, so the departments of a facility form a hierarchy. Care models a department on the FHIR Organization resource.

📝 Note

Care creates one root department named Administration for every new facility. You cannot create, edit, or delete this root department from the settings screens. You also cannot create a department under it. The person who creates the facility becomes the Facility Admin of the root department.

📝 Note

Your deployment sets the maximum nesting depth and the maximum number of departments for each facility.

Key Attributes

Components	What it captures
Name	The name of the department. This is required.
Description	A description of the department. This is optional.
Type	The kind of department. Select Department or Team.
Parent department	The department that this department sits under. A department with no parent is a top-level department in the facility.
Active	Whether the department is active.

Type

Type records the kind of department. You select the type when you create the department, and you can change it later. Care offers these two values:

• Department
• Team

📝 Note

Care keeps other department types for its own use, such as the root Administration department. Care does not offer these types on the department settings screens.

Permissions

Permission	What it allows
Can Create Facility Organizations	Create a new department. The Facility Admin role holds this permission.
Can Manage Facility Organizations	Edit the name, description, and type of a department. The Facility Admin and Administrator roles hold this permission.
Can Delete Facility Organizations	Delete a department. The Facility Admin role holds this permission.
Can List Users in a Facility Organizations	See the members of a department. The Facility Admin, Admin, Staff, Doctor, Administrator, and Nurse roles hold this permission.
Can Manage Users in a Facility Organization	Add a member to a department, remove a member from it, or change the role of a member in it. The Facility Admin and Administrator roles hold this permission.

📝 Note

A role that you grant on a department also applies to the sub-departments of that department.

Facility

Concepts

Facility · Department · Location · Healthcare Service · Device

Flows

Create · View · Update · Delete · Create a department · Update a department · Add users to a department · Delete a department · Create a location · View locations · Edit a location · Reorder locations · Delete a location · Manage a location's organizations

References

Facility · Facility Config · Facility Flag · Location · Healthcare Service · Device

Related

Pages that link here:

• Flows/Add users to a department
• Flows/Create a department
• Flows/Delete a department
• Flows/Update a department

• Concept: Concepts/Facility
• Reference: References/Organization

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