During long term hospital stays for school aged patients, continued education is essential for the maintenance of daily routine, avoiding isolation and safeguarding scholastic progress. In many hospitals, such continued education is incorporated in their services, and available for the sick students of all ages.
As of yet, I haven’t encountered a good solution to mark hospitals with these facilities. Do we just mark these as school nodes in the hospitals themselves? This feels like an inadequate solution, seeing as to these educational facilities don’t have a fixed location, but are made available depending on the sick student’s needs.
Proposal:
Continue building on the healthcare tag, and expanding with healthcare:education:*=* for the necessary information?
This doesn’t need to be added. OSM isn’t a patient pamphlet. You don’t need to add what meal options they have, or seriously what counseling and other services they have. OSM doesn’t add activities without fixed locations and scheduled either.
In Belgium these are federally regulated and catalogued just as any other school, so it’s a bit less trivial than whether they get soup or bread for lunch.
If the school is more like a service that the hospital offers with no fixed location then I can see how using a prefix makes sense, on the other hand if the school is it’s own entity independent to the hospital that is located on hospital grounds and but only operates to provides services to patients, then as it’s own OSM object provides that independent distinction.