The Open Database of Healthcare Facilities (ODHF)

Detailed information for September 2025

The Open Database of Healthcare Facilities (ODHF) is a listing containing the names, types, and locations of healthcare facilities across Canada.

The ODHF consists of data provided by federal, provincial and territorial, and municipal governments, as well as regional health authorities.

Data release - September 24, 2026

• Description
• Data sources and methodology
• Data accuracy

Description

The Open Database of Healthcare Facilities (ODHF) is a collection of open data containing the names, types, and locations of healthcare facilities across Canada. It is released under the Open Government License - Canada and provided in multiple spatial data formats, including GeoPackage, GeoParquet, and GeoJSON, containing both point and polygon representations of healthcare facilities.

The ODHF compiles open and publicly available data on healthcare facilities across Canada. Data sources include regional health authorities, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments. This database aims to provide enhanced access to a harmonized listing of healthcare facilities across Canada by making them available as open data. This database is a component of the Linkable Open Data Environment (LODE).

Reference period: The reference period for these data varies. For more information on the reference period of a specific dataset, please consult the open data portal for that data provider directly.

Collection period: December 2025 to June 2026

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The goal of the ODHF is to create a centralized and harmonized repository of healthcare facilities available from open data sources across Canada. As work on ODHF progresses, definitions and thresholds will evolve. Users are reminded that unedited data can always be obtained directly from the open data portals of the various data providers.

Instrument design

Not applicable

Sampling

Not applicable

Data sources

The database uses both open data as well as publicly available data (a dataset being designated open depending on whether or not the data are distributed under an open data license). Most of the data are sourced from regional health authorities, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments. This current version of the database (version 2.0) contains approximately 22,000 records provided by 104 open data sources.

A full listing of the sources included in the ODHF, including links to the original datasets, licenses or terms of use, attribution statements and additional notes can be found in the ODHF metadata document.

Error detection

Erroneous entries were identified both programmatically and manually, then corrected or removed.

Removal of duplicate records consisted of different methods, including quick deduplication of records based on attribute values, and deduplication of features using spatial similarities.

Imputation

No imputation was done.

Estimation

Not applicable

Quality evaluation

Evaluation of quality includes a variety of steps; review of spatial coverage of the harmonized data collection, standardization of dataset schemas, deduplication of features, removal of erroneous records, and visual assessment of dataset quality.

Disclosure control

This methodology does not apply.

Revisions and seasonal adjustment

This methodology type does not apply to this statistical program.

Data accuracy

The ODHF represents data from sources that were found at the time of compilation and should thus not be interpreted as a complete or objective "ground-truth" of what healthcare facilities exist in Canada. The accuracy and completeness of the information is in general a function of the source datasets used.

Efforts have been made to minimize errors, normalization, and removal of duplicates.