Dimension Filters
Senzo organizes workforce data across four dimensions. Filtering by these dimensions lets you drill from system-wide totals down to the specific unit or role where a problem is occurring.
The four dimensions
Facility
A physical site or campus within your organization. Examples: Main Campus, North Tower, West Wing, Community Clinic.
Facilities are configured in Settings → Organization Setup → Facilities.
Unit
A clinical department or functional team within a facility. Examples: Emergency Department, ICU, Cardiology, Operating Room, Medical-Surgical 3 East.
Units are assigned to a facility in Settings. Each unit belongs to one facility and one sector.
Sector
A clinical grouping of units. Examples: Nursing, Allied Health, Diagnostics, Pharmacy, Physicians, Emergency Services.
Sectors are assigned at the unit level in Settings. They allow you to roll up data across similar departments — for example, viewing all Nursing units together regardless of which facility they’re in.
Provider Type
A staff role or category. Examples: Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, Health Care Aide, Pharmacist, Medical Doctor.
Provider types are configured in Settings → Organization Setup → Provider Types.
How dimensions interact
The dimensions are hierarchical for facilities and units:
Organization
└── Facility
└── Unit (belongs to a Sector)
└── Provider Type
Where filters appear
| Section | Available filters |
|---|
| Metrics Explorer | Sector, Facility, Unit, Provider Type, Expand By |
| Report Builder | Facility, Unit, Sector, Provider Type |
| Data Explorer | Facility, Unit, Provider Type |
| Pulse Intelligence | Sector, Unit (in output breakdown) |
| Cost Analytics | Facility, Sector, Provider Type |
Expand By
The Metrics Explorer has an additional Expand By dimension that splits a single metric into separate lines per dimension value. For example, selecting Expand By: Provider Type on the Headcount metric produces one trend line per provider type on the same chart.
Setting up your dimensions
Before uploading data, configure your dimensions in Settings → Organization Setup:
- Add Facilities — your physical sites
- Add Units — assign each to a facility and sector
- Add Provider Types — the roles you track
The names you configure here must exactly match the facility_name, unit_name, and provider_type_name values in your uploaded data files.
Use consistent naming conventions across your organization. Abbreviations and casing differences (e.g. “ICU” vs “Intensive Care Unit” vs “intensive care unit”) will cause unit matching failures during upload.
