This map service includes the acute and non-acute care hospitals in Massachusetts.Acute care hospitals are those licensed under MGL Chapter 111, section 51 and which contain a majority of medical-surgical, pediatric, obstetric, and maternity beds, as defined by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). The features in this layer are based on database information provided to MassGIS from the DPH, Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) and the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA).All hospitals in the state that have a 24-hour emergency department are included in this layer, but not all facilities in this layer have an emergency department (the ER_STATUS field stores this data). Other attributes include cohort, adult and pediatric trauma levels, and special public funding. See CHIA's Massachusetts Acute Hospital Profiles page for more information. CHIA reviewed the final revision in November 2018.Non-acute care hospitals in Massachusetts are typically identified as psychiatric, rehabilitation, and chronic care facilities, along with some non-acute specialty hospitals, using the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and Department of Mental Health (DMH) license criteria as well as a listing on the state's Bureau of Hospitals website. The non-acute care hospitals are based on database information provided by the DPH and the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). CHIA reviewed this layer in November 2018.Non-acute care hospitals in this layer do not contain 24/7 emergency departments.See the full data layer descriptions:Acute care hospitalsNon-acute care hospitalsMap service also available

Review reports on Massachusetts deaths from the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics.

Find data on deaths of Massachusetts residents. Information is obtained from death certificates received by the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics.

Context

Massachusetts has been publishing city and town COVID-19 case rate data for about three weeks now. I've been making maps out of it with R (e.g., here), and have written up a bit about how in my blog.

Content

Each week's data is complete for January 1st through the given date (April 14th, 22nd, and 29th, so far). The state publishes a case count and a rate (per 100,000) per city, plus a count for where the city was unknown and the state totals (last two rows). Raw state data columns are marked with the date. Adjusted columns have some estimates in them of case counts (where the state was vague), and rates (where the state omitted them), but otherwise match the state data. The county and population are included for each city.

Note that the population data is from the US Census and is not the same as the populations the state used to calculate their rates.

Acknowledgements

Massachusetts Department of Public Health data: current edition. I have archived the previous versions to do the diffs, but you can probably get your own copies from the WayBack Machine. (If you do so, avoid the bad data from the evening of April 22nd.) Data was extracted using the R package docxtractor.

Census data: This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau. Data was obtained from the estimates API (2018) using the R package tidycensus.

Inspiration

I made some maps from this data, both static and with Leaflet, to try to get a better sense of what was going on in the state and where. The latest one is here. Suggestions for improvement are welcome.

This point datalayer contains the location of community health centers (CHCs) in Massachusetts. The layer was originally produced by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MA DPH) Center for Environmental Health (CEH) GIS program. The source material was provided by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, a.k.a. "the League," (http://www.massleague.org). The League defines a community health center as a non-profit community-based organization that offers comprehensive primary and preventive health care, including medical, social and/or mental health services, to anyone in need regardless of their medical status, ability to pay, culture or ethnicity. The layer is named CHCS_PT. CHCs are grouped into Main and Satellite locations. Main CHCs may have one or more satellite locations (also known as access points). The MCHC_CODE item indicates affiliation between main CHCs and their satellites. CHCs vary by both the facility and/or building type in which they are located, scope of clinical services offered, and target patient population(s). The CEH GIS program used the MassGIS Hospitals, Schools, Colleges and Universities, and Prisons datalayers, and Internet Web sites in the case of homeless shelters, to derive the presence of health centers in these facilities.In 2018-19, locations for all facilities were verified and updated according to the MassGIS Master Address Database. Health centers known to be administrative offices are attributed accordingly. With respect to clinical services, this GIS datalayer makes no distinction among CHCs. An exception is eye care and dental service providers that are indicated in the EYE and DENTAL fields, respectively. No information regarding target patient populations is explicitly defined, though assumptions may be based on health center name and/or location. In all cases, patients seeking care should contact the CHCs directly to verify availability of clinical services, hours, etc., rather than rely on the information contained in this GIS datalayer, as such information is subject to change.

Review reports on Massachusetts births from the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics.

Health care providers can view various surveillance summaries and data regarding tick-borne diseases.

This point data layer shows the location of non-acute care hospitals in Massachusetts. Non-acute hospitals in Massachusetts are typically identified as psychiatric, rehabilitation, and chronic care facilities, along with some non-acute specialty hospitals. The hospitals in this layer do not contain 24/7 emergency departments; for those facilites see the Acute Care Hospitals (HOSPITALS_PT) layer.The features in this layer are based on database information provided by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). CHIA reviewed this layer in November 2018.

Find violent death data in Massachusetts, inluding homicide and suicide.

Download data on suicides in Massachusetts by demographics and year. This page also includes reporting on military & veteran suicide, and suicides during COVID-19.

Download reports about sharps injuries in hospitals, including trends in injuries to workers, trainees, and in operating rooms.

Find data on drinking water quality in Massachusetts. This dataset shows drinking water exceedances for lead by Community Water System and year of exceedance in Massachusetts.

Review annual reports on homicides from the MA Violent Death Reporting System (MAVDRS).