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Welcome to WikiProject Hospitals. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Hospitals and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Hospital articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total
GA 2 8 7 1 18
B 4 33 46 79 17 179
C 7 90 299 380 70 846
Start 5 119 1,103 2,207 282 3,716
Stub 45 561 2,216 1 510 3,333
List 106 62 38 94 4 4 308
Category 1,742 2 1,744
Disambig 110 110
File 76 76
Project 8 8
Redirect 89 4 26 72 272 463
Template 124 124
NA 7 7
Other 36 36
Assessed 211 355 2,081 5,055 2,380 2 884 10,968
Unassessed 1 8 162 171
Total 212 355 2,081 5,063 2,380 2 1,046 11,139
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 42,535 Ω = 5.26

Goals

  • Improve all hospital articles within a common framework

Scope

In scope

  • Physical sites where medical care is delivered as the main activity: Hospitals, infirmaries, clinics, medical centres, institutes, asylums.
  • Military hospitals, field hospitals, hospital ships.
  • Management organisations of hospitals - whether government agencies or private companies.
  • Medical training establishments (not to be placed under WikiProject Medicine). However, they may be simultaneously grouped under WikiProject Universities.

Out of scope

Ways to improve articles

There are over 17,000 hospitals in the world and approximately 4,000 hospital articles on Wikipedia. Many of those can be improved by the following:

  • Expand stub articles
  • Add a hospital infobox
  • Update old hospital infoboxes
  • Use 8 way geolocator to locate other nearby hospitals
  • Add coordinates (Google Earth works great)
  • Add a map (use state maps for larger countries)
  • Add articles to WikiProject Hospitals using template
  • Assess article quality
  • Assess importance
  • Add FAA or ICAO Location identifier codes for hospitals with helipads
  • Stub sorting
  • List of hospitals in (state)
  • Hospitals (state) templates
  • Add new hospital articles

Guidelines

Naming conventions

Hospital articles should follow the WP:COMMONNAME policy. If disambiguation is needed because several hospitals have the same name, it should adhere to the "Hospital (Town)" or "Hospital, Town" format, depending on the local convention. If both the hospital and town/city name are the same, then you would generally use the "Hospital (Town, State)" format.

Format of articles

  • Place {{Infobox hospital}} at the top of the article.
  • Avoid promotional laundry lists of services provided.

Notability

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Hospitals, clinics, and related organizations must comply with the WP:ORG notability standard, which requires, as an absolute minimum:

  1. that the hospital has been noticed by two unrelated, independent WP:Third-party sources,
  2. that at least one source that discusses the organization in-depth (many paragraphs directly about the hospital), and
  3. that at least one source that is outside of the organization's local/service area.

A single author or publisher counts as only one source, regardless of the number of publications by this person. Routine coverage and passing mentions (such as "The victim was taken to E. Normous Medical Center" or "Dr Smith of Smallville Hospital, said...") do not count.

Nearly all hospitals, regardless of size, and most medical clinics and related organizations will have been the subject of at least one in-depth article in their local newspaper. In practice, large, regional hospitals will almost always meet all of these standards, but some smaller hospitals and many clinics will not.

Hospitals that do not meet all parts of this standard do not qualify for a stand-alone article, and should instead be described in a section on healthcare or emergency services in their hometown articles or parent organization, with suitable redirects from the hospital's name. Additionally, if the independent sources available to you would not permit you to write more than one or two paragraphs, then it may be preferable to add that information to a larger article, with appropriate redirects.

Finding sources

Search engines do not always do a good job of finding articles, so sometimes you have to dig a little. You should start with a search engine to find a good regional, national, or international source.

TV stations may be considered as a regional source, so a search of their websites may generate some results. Local and regional newspapers will usually cover a significant event, usually associated with the anniversary of the hospital, purchase of new equipment, or major expansion.

Open tasks

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. If you are already working on a WikiProject for a particular country we could use your help!

  1. Ng.j (talk · contribs) I created the project and will serve as steward to improve it 18:31, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  2. TucsonDavid (talk · contribs) I'm willing to be part of the project.TucsonDavid (talk) 21:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Peter.C (talk · contribs) I will do general edits Peter.C • talk 11:40, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Extra999 (talk · contribs) I want to help! --Extra 999 (Contact me + contribs) 02:05, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Davidruben (talk · contribs) helped create the infobox in its present gobal form. David Ruben Talk 06:20, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  6. PCHS-NJROTC (talk · contribs) Will work on building articles on notbable facilities not already covered in the encyclopedia. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages) 03:39, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Nsaum75 (talk · contribs) Working to create articles for hospitals within the Shriners organization, when WP:RS is available to establish notability. -- nsaum75 !Dígame¡‎ 01:02, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  8. JohnRLambert (talk · contribs) I like to create new articles on small, unique hospitals JohnRLambert (talk) 21:13, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Lunisolar (talk · contribs) Working on UK hospital articles. Lunisolar (talk) 17:03, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  10. --—Assassin'S Creed (talk) 01:55, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Tamer_of_hope (talk · contribs) --I'll continue to tag new hospital pages in the state of Georgia. Tamer_of_Hope talk 19:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Mr.Atoz (talk · contribs) Working on Georgia Hospitals Template and improving the Hospitals in Georgia List 14:50, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  13. whoisjohngalt (talk · contribs) I will mainly be working on hospitals and clinics in Massachusetts and New England. (talk) 19:55, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  14. MBruceTomlinson (talk · contribs)} MBruceTomlinson (talk) 20:01, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Luciferwildcat (talk · contribs) count me in if anyone wants help LuciferWildCat (talk) 05:25, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  16. FiachraByrne (talk · contribs) I'm currently rewriting the article on Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam). Given that it's been around since the 13th century and down to the present day and has a pretty large cultural footprint, it's taking a while. Other than that, my main interest for this purposes of this project is in the history asylums/psychiatric hospitals.FiachraByrne (talk) 23:48, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  17. abrnkak (talk · contribs) I am interested in Saudi Arabia articles. Abrnkak (talk) 08:02, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Welsh (talk · contribs) - assessment of hospitals based in the UK. Resolution of overlap with WP:MED and the defunct Wikipedia:WikiProject National Health Service. Slowly adding extant and newly created articles to the project. 08:08, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
  19. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:24, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Crazypaco (talk · contribs) I've occasionally contributed to hospital articles in Pennsylvania and wasn't aware of this project until now so count me in. CrazyPaco (talk) 06:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Navsim (talk · contribs) I'm currently working on Royal Naval Hospitals in Simon's Town, South Africa. This may subsequently expand into other Military and Civilian hospitals in the area. 18:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Wpollard (talk · contribs) I work for a hospital and have written about a dozen articles about hospitals and clinics. I also have fought to save a couple articles about hospitals or at least have their information placed in other articles and referenced by redirect pages.
  23. C16sh (talk · contribs) I'm currently working on NYC stuff, but might expand other parts of the US. 21:31, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Cep215 (talk · contribs) I'd like to get involved in this project. Cep215 (talk) 12:46, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Rathfelder (talk) 19:12, 2 November 2013 (UTC) I'm working on the treatment of the English National Health Service. That might help.Rathfelder (talk) 19:12, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Dfadden (talk · contribs) I've written some recent articles on regional hospitals in Australia - there was not a lot of coverage outside capital cities Dfadden (talk) 21:41, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Sayowais (talk · contribs) Created few pages on hospitals in Tamil Nadu, India and also working on already existing Indian hospitals articles. Sayowais (talk) Owais 19:22, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Drchriswilliams (talk · contribs) I'm happy to work towards high quality articles, especially those relating to rural, Scottish and UK healthcare. 14:48, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  29. jazmichaelking (talk · contribs) Hi all, I work on numerous health care databases mainly for transparency reporting, for hospitals I have a good knowledge of the landscape in the US with extra knowledge in NY and IL. Jazmichaelking (talk) 16:21, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  30. mynameismonkey2 (talk · contribs) Looking to add infoboxes and clean up USA hospitals. My work includes whynotthebest.org and various state profiles / transparency reports. Mynameismonkey2 (talk) 17:28, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Waggers (talk · contribs) Long-time member of WikiProject NHS, happy to help with UK hospitals WaggersTALK 11:08, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  32. davidjxcarter (talk · contribs) Happy to work on articles, particularly Australian hospitals. Davidjxcarter (talk) 19:18, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  33. intern1984 (talk · contribs) Happy to supply some information about Chinese hospitals.
  34. Yash! (talk · contribs) - Generally interested, but specialize at India-related topics.
  35. Peterye2005 (talk · contribs) - Interested in small hospitals and treatment centers in Toronto and York Region, Ontario
  36. Mar4d (talk · contribs) - Interested in expanding articles on Pakistani hospitals.
  37. KDTW Flyer (talk · contribs) - Interested in expanding Wisconsin articles.
  38. Diptanshu Das (talk · contribs) - Interested in articles pertaining to medical colleges all over the world, with emphasis on the ones in India. DiptanshuTalk 11:29, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  39. Anzmibu (talk · contribs) - Interested in improving articles on Hospitals in New South Wales, Australia
  40. Bluhmtalk (talk · contribs) - Working on improvement to article about St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney in New South Wales, Australia
  41. Mompati Dikunwane (talk · contribs) - interesting to be part of this project :), I started with creating stub articles about hospitals in Botswana and also contributing to other articles by adding info-boxes, updating old info boxes, this is sooo cute :).
  42. RoslinGenetics (talk) 00:57, 17 January 2018 (UTC) Just did some work on Trafford General Hospital birthplace of the NHS. Bit of an inexperienced editor, feedback appreciated.[reply]
  43. John At SHS (talk · contribs) - I've been asked by my employer to assist in cleaning up our entries, Samaritan Health Services, and wish to do so in an appropriate manner. Trying to lend a hand, not cause more work for others, and improve the content.John At SHS (talk) 00:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  44. Jmertel23 (talk · contribs) - Interested in cleaning up American hospital articles. 12:32, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  45. Mrbuskin (talk · contribs) - Keen to clean up Australian hospital pages. Mrbuskin (talk) 02:26, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  46. LMFcan (talk · contribs) 18:39, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Articles

Featured content

Candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Hospitals-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

User:AlexNewArtBot - New Article Bot

We have a feed for the New Article bot. The bot reads all the new articles for a day and puts suspected Hospitals-related articles into User:AlexNewArtBot/HospitalsSearchResult. The articles can be sifted for inclusion within the project if appropriate.

The list of rules are in User:AlexNewArtBot/Hospitals. There is also the log at User:AlexNewArtBot/HospitalsLog explaining the rules that sent an article to the search results (the log is cleared every day, so try to look into the history of the log). Please discuss on the talk page if you are interested in the fine tuning of the rules. Any suggestions are welcome.

Recent changes to project pages

Review and assessment

Assessment

Assessment
Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals/Assessment

An article can be rated by quality and importance; for example, using {{WikiProject Hospitals|class=Stub|importance=Low}}. For detailed instructions on quality grading, see: WikiProject Hospitals/Assessment. There are many articles that still need to be assessed. You may help us to assess them, please see Category:Unassessed Hospital articles for the complete list.

Peer review

Peer review

Statistics

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals/Assessment

Categories

Use CatScan to look at articles in Categories.

Templates

Resources

Resources on the internet

  • Healthgrades ( http://www.healthgrades.com/ ) - Provides data obtained from other reputable sources on such things as patient safety, patient outcomes, patient experience (patient satisfaction) and links to Healthgrades information on physicians who admit patients to hospitals. This source also provides some information about outpatient clinics, some of which are very large. All information pertains to facilities in the United States.
  • Hospital-Data.Com (http://www.hospital-data.com/ ) - Provides data obtained from other reputable sources for hospitals, home health centers, nursing homes and dialysis facilities. Data are provided on numbers and varieties of employees, number of beds and average costs for various procedures. All information pertains to facilities in the United States.
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