VAloc: VA locations
In iecastro/tidyVA: Tidy simple features of VHA geographies

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A dataset of geometry and attributes of Veteran Affairs locations as of 9/30/2018.

VAloc

A simple feature collection with 1953 rows and 50 variables:

StationNumber: Site ID
FacilityName: Site Name
PrimaryService: Primary service of site
PrimaryAttribute: Location type
Mobile: Whether facility is/has a Mobile VA Clinic
Address1: Address component
Address2: Address component
Address3: Address component
PhoneNumber: Site's phone number
FaxNumber: Site's fax number
City: City
StateAbbreviation: State abbreviation
Zip: ZIP Code
CemeteryType: Whether National or State
CemeteryOperations: Operations
VAAdministration: VA Administration Agency
Latitude: Latitude
Longitude: Longitude
SuppService: Supplemental Services

...

STCD: Combined ID for State FIPS and Congressional District number
StateFIPS: State FIPS Code
CD: Congressional District where facility is located
LASTNAME: U.S. Representative - Last Name
FIRSTNAME: U.S. Representative - First Name
FIPS: County FIPS Code
CountyName: County Name where facility is located
VISN: Veteran Integrated Service Network ID
MARKET: VHA Market ID
SUBMARKET: VHA Submarket ID
SECTOR: VHA Sector ID
PrimaryRUCACode2010: Primary Rural-Urban Commuting Area Code (2010 Census) of site's location
SecondaryRUCACode2010: Secondary Rural-Urban Commuting Area Code (2010 Census) of site's location*
RUCA_UrbanRural: Commuting Area Rural/Urban Classification*
VADistrictCode: VA Regional Districts: 1-Northeast, 2-Southeast, 3-Midwest, 4-Continental, 5-Pacific**
geometry: Geometry of shape

Veterans Health Administration (VHA): Medical Centers (VAMC), Community - Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC), Community Living Centers (CLC), Domiciliary Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (DRRTP), Vet Centers (VCTR).

Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA): Regional Offices (RO).

National Cemetery Administration (NCA): National and State Cemeteries.

*2010 Secondary RUCA codes were revised on 7/3/2019 affecting 10,909 census tracts. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/rural-urban-commuting-area-codes/

**In early 2019 VA Districts were restructured from five to four. https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5194

https://www.va.gov/vetdata/maps.asp

iecastro/tidyVA documentation built on April 7, 2020, 12:09 p.m.