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Version: 3.1

Organisation

Definition​

An organization in Care is a government or administrative area, for example a state or a district. Care arranges these areas in a hierarchy, from the country down to the ward. To open the hierarchy, select Organizations in the Admin sidebar. Then select Governance.

Care attaches an organization to each facility and to each patient as the geo organization. The geo organization is the government area that the facility or the patient belongs to, for example a district.

Note: Care uses the word "Governance" for two different things. The Governance item under Organizations holds the government organizations that this document describes. The Governance section inside a responsibility links one responsibility to another. See Responsibility.

Key Attributes​

ComponentsWhat it captures
NameThe name of the government or administrative area. Care requires a name.
DescriptionMore detail about the organization. This attribute is optional.

The name must be different from the names of the other organizations at the same level of the same hierarchy.

The hierarchy​

Care shows the organizations as an expandable tree at the left of the page. Every organization, except a top-level organization, has one parent. An organization can have any number of children.

The government hierarchy levels include:

  • Country
  • State
  • District
  • Block Panchayat
  • Corporation
  • District Panchayat
  • Grama Panchayat
  • Local Body
  • Municipality
  • Ward

Note: The set of levels that your deployment uses can be different.

Note: Your deployment sets the maximum depth of the organization hierarchy.

Level and parent​

You do not enter the hierarchy level and the parent. Care sets them from the position in the tree where you create the organization.

Who can change the hierarchy​

Only a Care superuser can create, change, or delete a government organization. Other users see the government organizations that they have access to. Care blocks their changes to these organizations.