"A bounded physical place or site, including any contained structures. A place may be natural or man-made. The geographic position of a place may or may not be constant. Places may be work facilities (where relevant acts occur), homes (where people live) or offices (where people work). Places may contain sub-places (floor, room, booth, bed). Places may also be sites that are investigated in the context of health care, social work, public health administration (e.g., buildings, picnic grounds, day care centers, prisons, counties, states, and other focuses of epidemiological events). Examples include a field, lake, city, county, state, country, lot (land), building, pipeline, power line, playground, ship, truck." - HL7 V3. "Details and position information for a physical place where services are provided and resources and participants may be stored, found, contained or accommodated." - HL7 FHIR, Location Note that FHIR has a single class, Location, which encompasses concepts which the FHIM splits into the Location class and the ServiceDeliveryLocation class.