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LDP - Location Department Segment

The Technical Steward for the LDP segment is Patient Administration.

The LDP segment identifies how a patient location room is being used by a certain department. Multiple departments can use the same patient location, so there can be multiple LDP segments following an LOC segment. There must be at least one LDP segment for each LOC segment. This is not intended to include any current occupant information.

HL7 Attribute Table - LDP - Location Department Segment
Seq# DataElement Description Must Implement Flags Cardinality Length C.LEN Vocabulary DataType
LDP
1 00963 Primary Key Value - LDP SHALL [1..1] PL
2 00964 Location Department SHALL [1..1] CWE
3 00965 Location Service = [0..*] 3 CWE
4 00966 Specialty Type [0..*] CWE
5 00967 Valid Patient Classes = [0..*] 1 CWE
6 00675 Active/Inactive Flag [0..1] [1..1] ID
7 00969 Activation Date - LDP [0..1] DTM
8 00970 Inactivation Date - LDP [0..1] DTM
9 00971 Inactivated Reason = [0..1] 80 ST
10 00976 Visiting Hours [0..*] VH
11 00978 Contact Phone [0..1] XTN
12 01584 Location Cost Center [0..1] CWE

LDP-1: Primary Key Value - LDP (PL) 00963

Definition: This field contains the institution's identification code for the location. The identifying key value. This field has the same components as the patient location fields in the PV1 segment (except that bed status is not included here). At least the first component of this field is required. The contents of this field must exactly match the content of its preceding MFE (MFE-4 - Primary Key Value - MFE) and its preceding LOC (LOC-1 - Primary Key Value - LOC).

LDP-2: Location Department (CWE) 00964

(Definition from LDP.2 in Ch. 8)

Definition: This field contains the institution's department to which this location belongs, or its cost center. Refer to User-defined Table 0264 - Location Department in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for suggested values.

(Definition from LCC.2 in Ch. 8)

Definition: This field contains the institution's department to which this location belongs, or its cost center. It may match the value in its preceding LDP (LDP-2 - Location Department or LDP-12 - Location Cost Center. Refer to User-defined Table 0264 - Location Department in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for suggested values.

LDP-3: Location Service (CWE) 00965

Definition: This field contains the hospital or ancillary service with which this location is associated. Depends on institution use. Repeats for rooms that can be used, for example, by different services on different days. These values should match the values used for PV1-10 - Hospital Service, which is site defined. Refer to User-defined Table 0069 - Hospital Service in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for suggested values.

LDP-4: Specialty Type (CWE) 00966

Definition: This field contains the specialty type (if any) of the department or clinic. This may also be considered a bed type. Specialty type is a physical accommodation type, whereas 'accommodation type' (LCC-3 - Accommodation Type) is a financial accommodation type. Refer to User-defined Table 0265 – Specialty Type in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for suggested values. See also LCH-4 - Location Characteristic ID and LHC-5 - Location Characteristic Value.

LDP-5: Valid Patient Classes (CWE) 00967

(Definition from LDP.5 in Ch. 8)

Definition: This field contains the patient types that are allowed to be assigned to this bed. For example, Inpatient, Outpatient, Series, Clinic, ER, Ambulatory, Observation, etc. These values should be the same set of values as those used for PV1-2 - Patient Class. Refer to User-defined Table 0004 – Patient Class in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for suggested values.

(Definition from PRC.4 in Ch. 8)

Definition: This field contains the patient types for which this charge description is valid. For example, Inpatient, Outpatient, Series, Clinic, ER, Ambulatory, Observation, etc. These values should be the same set of values as those used for PV1-3 - Patient Class, which is site defined. Use only when the price is not valid for all patient types, that is, a null value indicates that this pricing is valid for all patient classes. Refer to User-defined Table 0004 - Patient Class in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for suggested values.

When two PRC segments are sent the same key values but with different valid patient classes, the second is sent in addition to the first, not to replace the first. The effective unique identifier is the charge code (PRC-1 - PRC Primary Key) plus the facility ID (PRC-2 - Facility ID) plus the department (PRC-3 - Department) plus the patient class (PRC-4 - Valid Patient Classes). Multiple patient classes can be sent in the same segment to indicate that those patient classes use the same pricing.

LDP-6: Active/Inactive Flag (ID) 00675

(Definition from LDP.6 in Ch. 8)

Definition: This field indicates whether the entry for this location is currently an active, that is, valid, usable entry (disregarding whether it's waiting to be maintained by housekeeping). Refer to HL7 Table 0183 - Active/Inactive in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for valid values.

(Definition from CDM.8 in Ch. 8)

Definition: This field indicates whether this is a usable CDM entry. Refer to HL7 Table 0183 - Active/Inactive in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for valid values.

(Definition from PRC.16 in Ch. 8)

Definition: This indicates whether this is a usable CDM entry. Refer to HL7 Table 0183 - Active/Inactive in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for valid values.

(Definition from STF.7 in Ch. 15)

Definition: This field indicates whether person is currently a valid staff member. Refer to HL7 Table 0183 - Active/Inactive in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for valid values. This table contains values for active or inactive.

LDP-7: Activation Date - LDP (DTM) 00969

Definition: This field contains the date and time when the location became active or "in service" for a department (disregarding whether it is waiting to be maintained by housekeeping).

LDP-8: Inactivation Date - LDP (DTM) 00970

Definition: This field contains the date when the location became inactive or "out of service" for this department (disregarding whether it is waiting to be maintained by housekeeping).

LDP-9: Inactivated Reason (ST) 00971

Definition: This field contains the reason the location was put out of service. It is used when LDP-8 - Inactivation Date-LDP is sent.

LDP-10: Visiting Hours (VH) 00976

Definition: This field contains the hours when this location is open for visiting. Refer to HL7 Table 0267 - Days of the Week in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for valid values for the first two components.

LDP-11: Contact Phone (XTN) 00978

Definition: This field contains the phone number to use to contact facility personnel about the patient location, in case of inquiries about the location. This phone is not necessarily within the named patient location.

LDP-12: Location Cost Center (CWE) 01584

Definition: This field contains the cost center to which this location belongs. Refer to User-defined Table 0462 - Location Cost Center in Chapter 2C, Code Tables, for suggested values.