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Version: 3.0

Organization

An organization in Care is a group of people that holds access. You add a person to an organization with a role, and the role gives that person access to everything the organization covers. Organizations form a tree, and access on a parent organization applies to every organization below it. An organization is not a facility: a facility is a place where care happens, and the departments inside a facility are facility organizations.

Key Attributes​

ComponentsWhat it captures
NameThe name of the organization. Two organizations under the same parent cannot use the same name.
DescriptionA short note about what the organization is used for.
TypeThe kind of group. See Types below.
Parent organizationThe organization directly above this one in the tree.
ActiveShows if the organization is in use.

Types​

TypeWhat it groups
GovernmentAn administrative area, such as a state, a district, or a local body.
TeamA working group of people.
ResponsibilityA flat group of people who share a designation, such as Volunteer or Nurse Practitioner.
SupplierA vendor organization that supplies products.

Government organizations model the real administrative map. A facility and a patient each sit under a government organization, so an administrator of a district reaches every facility and patient in that district. Every user can see government organizations, because coordination needs them. Only an instance administrator can create or change them.

A responsibility organization is a flat list of people. Care uses it for designations and governance, and it has no organizations below it.

The tree​

Each organization has one parent, and a root organization has no parent. A role that you grant on a parent applies to every organization below it. You cannot change the parent after you create the organization, and you cannot delete an organization that still has organizations below it. Your deployment sets a maximum depth for the tree.

Membership​

A person gets access through a membership: one user, one organization, one role. You can give another person only a role that is within your own role in that organization. The same rule applies when you remove a person. A person cannot be a member of an organization and of a parent or a child of that organization at the same time.