Department
Definition
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.
Related
- Flow: Create a department
- Flow: Update a department
- Flow: Add users to a department
- Flow: Delete a department
- Concept: Facility