--- title: Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia resource: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/ publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-10-27 rows: 1428 fields: 7 source: https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/api/v1/reporting-units source_sha256: fb3df3d65232157a4b817c48af180036dd80e1a1348b1cfe7744dba1d9a8b2df language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia Every reporting unit in AIHW MyHospitals, about 1,400 rows, with its code, current name, type and the alternative names the Institute lists for it. Published by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare under CC BY 4.0. National Digital converted the publisher's file to other formats. It renamed and typed the columns and kept only those the schema lists. National Digital made these changes, and the publisher is not responsible for them. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has not endorsed this site. Also called: MyHospitals reporting unit codes, Hospital alternative names Australia, MyHospitals hospital codes. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.csv (104 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.xlsx (60 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.json (224 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.parquet (31 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.sqlite (139 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.duckdb - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.ndjson (222 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.csv.gz (19 KB) Pinned version 2026-10-27: `https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/data.`. Dated versions keep their content. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/aggregate?group=type_name&metric=count Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive, except that `like` and `ilike` ignore case in the ASCII letters A to Z. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. When absent, rows come in the order of the file they are read from. For the newest versions that is the version's own data.parquet, which keeps the publisher's order unless the dataset sorted it. Any other version is read from the Parquet file the answer names in `file`, and when that file is sorted the answer names its sort in `order`, which ties follow too. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer from that version alone. Every version with a table can be queried, and `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists them. A query on a version the database does not hold is read from its Parquet file, and one that would read too much of it is refused with DuckDB SQL that answers it from the file. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Smaller files - by `type_name`: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/by/type_name/index.json lists 6 files ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `code` | string | reporting_unit_code | | | `name` | string | reporting_unit_name | | | `type_code` | string | reporting_unit_type.reporting_unit_type_code | | | `type_name` | string | reporting_unit_type.reporting_unit_type_name | | | `alternative_names` | string | alternative_names | | | `private` | boolean | private | | | `closed` | boolean | closed | | Key: `code`. ## Versions - 2026-10-27: 1428 rows, 7 fields, sha256 fb3df3d65232. https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/history.tar.zst ## Part of AIHW MyHospitals - [Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/) - [Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/) - [Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/) - [Emergency department patients seen on time by hospital and triage category, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-ed-patients-seen-on-time/) - [Emergency department presentations by hospital and triage category, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-ed-presentations/) - [Time spent in emergency departments by hospital and patient group, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-ed-time-in-ed/) - [Emergency department patients who left within four hours by hospital and patient group, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-ed-time-within-4-hours/) - [Cancer surgery waiting times by hospital and cancer type, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-cancer-surgery-waiting-times/) - [Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/) - [Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/) - [Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Emergency department busyness by day and hour, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/) (Qld) - [Elective surgery by specialty and hospital, Queensland, each quarter](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-specialty/) (Qld) - [Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland, each quarter](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/) (Qld) - [Public hospital emergency departments and minor injury clinics, Queensland, live list](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-facilities/) (Qld) - [People waiting and median waits in emergency departments, Queensland, live](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-waits-now/) (Qld) - [Public hospital locations, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-hospitals/) (SA) - [Private hospital locations, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-private-hospitals/) (SA) - [Air quality monitoring sites, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-air-quality-monitoring-sites/) (SA) - [Ambulance Victoria response times by council area, 2018-19](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-ambulance-response-times-by-lga/) (Vic) - [Ambulance Victoria response times by town and city, 2017-18](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-ambulance-response-times-by-town/) (Vic) ## Attribution and citation Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/ Harvard: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2026) Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia, version 2026-10-27 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 26 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/ Markdown: Data: [AIHW MyHospitals](https://www.aihw.gov.au/copyright), Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 26 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 1,428 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals updated? AIHW releases it several times a year. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals? No. The publisher is Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and its page is https://www.aihw.gov.au/copyright. National Digital converted the publisher's file to other formats. It renamed and typed the columns and kept only those the schema lists. National Digital made these changes, and the publisher is not responsible for them. The original sits beside every version as source.json with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### How do I get only the rows for one type name? Every version has one JSON file per value of `type_name`, 6 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/by/type_name/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/by/type_name/hospital.json holds the 1,166 rows where `type_name` is `Hospital`. ### What is in each row? One reporting unit of the MyHospitals Data API, which is a hospital, a Local Hospital Network, a Primary Health Network, a peer group, a state or the nation. Each row has the unit's code, its current name, its type, the other names the Institute lists for it, and whether it is private and whether it is closed. ### How are the alternative names written? A unit with more than one alternative name has them in one cell, separated by ` | `, in the order the Institute lists them. A unit with none has a blank cell. An alternative name may be a short name or an earlier name. ### Where are the Local Hospital Network codes? The reporting unit mappings in this collection list the Local Hospital Network, Primary Health Network and state each unit maps to, by code. The hospital list in this collection has each unit's coordinates. The Institute has not endorsed this site. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.json`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/au-myhospitals-reporting-units.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/au-myhospitals-reporting-units.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.