Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals

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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 tabs and subpages contain suggestions, guidelines, and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the alerts and metrics below.

More information Hospital articles by quality and importance, Quality ...
Hospital articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
GA 2 8 8 1 19
B 4 32 47 92 21 196
C 8 93 323 428 87 939
Start 7 121 1,134 2,378 357 3,997
Stub 40 512 2,167 1 519 3,239
List 106 63 38 96 4 4 311
Category 2,436 2,436
Disambig 110 110
File 310 310
Project 8 8
Redirect 89 4 30 84 334 541
Template 279 279
NA 2 2
Other 1 35 36
Assessed 214 356 2,092 5,253 3,519 989 12,423
Unassessed 8 213 221
Total 214 356 2,092 5,261 3,519 1,202 12,644
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 43,801 Ω = 5.22
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Goals

Improve all hospital articles within a common framework

  • Add a completed {{WikiProject Hospitals}} template to the talk page (not the article page) of any hospital article. Include assessment class and importance parameters in the template.
  • Increase the number of Featured Articles and Good Articles about hospitals
  • Improve the completeness of lists of hospitals for countries and administrative divisions (states) of countries
    • All continents and countries in the world now have a "List of hospitals in ....." list. Some country summaries in the lists could still be improved.  Task complete.
  • Improve the quality of the most popular hospital articles. (The most popular WikiProject Hospitals articles are listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals/Popular pages and is updated monthly.)

Geographic coverage

Lists of hospitals in Africa

Lists of hospitals in Asia

Lists of hospitals in Europe

Lists of hospitals in North America

Lists of hospitals in Oceania

Lists of hospitals in South America

Scope

In scope: Hospital articles should be about the following:

  • 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: The following articles are not within the scope of this project.

Notability

Ways to maintain and improve articles

See also: Category:WikiProject Hospitals maintenance

There are over 17,000 hospitals in the world and approximately 4,000 hospital articles on Wikipedia. Hospital articles in Wikipedia can be maintained and improved by the following.

Maintenance

  • Add WikiProject Hospitals template on Talk pages of hospital articles without it. {{WikiProject Hospitals|class= |importance= }} Fill in the class and importance.
  • Assess article quality of unassessed articles Maintenance
  • Assess article importance when not given Maintenance
  • Add a hospital Infobox to articles needing Infobox and update Infobox when not complete Maintenance
  • Add coordinates using Google Earth or Google Maps to hospital articles without coordinates to the Infobox hospital, e.g. | coordinates = {{coord|LAT|LON|type:landmark|display=inline, title}} Maintenance

Improvements

  • Improve completeness of Lists of hospitals in Country/State or countries without Lists
  • Add new hospital articles for notable hospitals
  • Expand stub and start class articles
  • Improve C, B, GA, A, FA hospital articles to the next level
  • Add a map to lists of hospitals (use state maps for larger countries). A link to a map of all hospitals with coordinates in a given category can be inserted using {{GeoGroupTemplate|article=Category:xxx}}
  • Add FAA or ICAO Location identifier codes for hospitals with helipads
  • Create health services organization templates with links to hospitals owned by that organization when the templates don't exist already

Metrics

Metrics are used within this project to measure progress towards meeting project goals. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals/Metrics for detailed metrics.

Alerts

See also recent changes in WP:HOS articles

Articles for deletion

  • 07 Mar 2026 – Government Medical College, Manjeri (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Filmssssssssssss (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
  • 02 Mar 2026 – Dr. Somervell Memorial CSI Medical College (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Filmssssssssssss (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 09 Mar 2026; see discussion (3 participants)

Proposed deletions

  • 10 Mar 2026 – Trinity Hospice, Blackpool (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JBW (t · c): No evidence of notability. Sourced only to a dead link on the hospice's own website & a routine listing on the Charity Commission's website, & searches failed to find any significant coverage in any independent source.
  • 06 Mar 2026 – Portsmouth General Hospital (Virginia) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by AusLondonder (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Templates

Project templates

  • {{Infobox hospital}} - Should be placed on every hospital page
  • {{WikiProject Hospitals}} - Should be placed on every hospital talk page
  • {{User WPHospitals}} - Userbox template
    This user participates in WikiProject Hospitals.
  • {{Hospitals_Invite}} - Use to invite new members to the project

Full syntax for WikiProject Hospitals template:

{{WikiProject Hospitals 
|class= 
|importance= 
|attention= 
|needs-infobox=  
|needs-image= 
|needs-coord= 
}}

Awards

  • WikiProject contributions
    WikiProject contributions
  • Teamwork
    Teamwork
  • Reviewing
    Reviewing

The following general barnstars are commonly used within the project:

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.

American hospitals

  • U.S. News & World Report (https://health.usnews.com/?top_nav_Health) - Useful rankings for American hospitals and children's hospitals. The industry standard of widely accepted hospital rankings.
  • American Hospital Directory (https://www.ahd.com/ ) - Information such as bed count, services offered, amount of residents, and other useful hospital related information.


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