Download HRSA Organ Procurement & Transplantation Center Locations

Downloads the publicly available HRSA GIS layer containing organ procurement and transplant center locations and returns it as an sf object.

Usage

get_hrsa_transplant_centers(quiet = TRUE)

Arguments

quiet

Logical; if TRUE, suppresses messages and warnings emitted during download. Default is TRUE.

Value

An sf object with point geometries representing transplant centers and organ procurement organizations, along with HRSA-provided attributes. Human-readable variable labels are attached.

Details

The data are served directly from the HRSA ArcGIS REST MapServer and include all attributes provided by HRSA at the time of download.

This function queries the HRSA ArcGIS REST MapServer layer:

https://gisportal.hrsa.gov/server/rest/services/Organs/OrganProcurementAndTransplantation_FS/MapServer/1

using a where = 1 = 1 filter to retrieve all available features. No caching is performed.

Note

The HRSA ArcGIS GeoJSON endpoint does not provide unique feature IDs. When quiet = TRUE, GDAL warnings related to feature IDs are suppressed.

See also

sf::st_read(), labelled::var_label()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
centers <- get_hrsa_transplant_centers()

# Inspect variable labels
labelled::var_label(centers)

# Plot by OPTN region
plot(centers["REGION_NM"])
}