French Healthcare Facilities Finder (FINESS)

Find every healthcare and medico-social facility in France — EHPAD nursing homes, hospitals (centre hospitalier, CHU), clinics, pharmacies, SSIAD home-nursing services, disability care centers and more — straight from FINESS, the official French national registry of health establishments (Fichier National des Établissements Sanitaires et Sociaux). Filter by department and facility category, and get clean, structured records with address, postal code, phone number, SIRET, legal status and GPS coordinates. Perfect for annuaire des établissements de santé, liste des EHPAD, établissements médico-sociaux and French healthcare B2B prospecting.

This actor is free. You only pay your own Apify platform usage (typically a few cents per run).

Why FINESS?

FINESS is the authoritative government registry maintained by the French Ministry of Health — every hospital, EHPAD, pharmacy and medico-social structure in France has a FINESS number. This actor reads the official open data extraction published on data.gouv.fr (Licence Ouverte / Open Licence), so the data is exhaustive, reliable and legally reusable, including commercially.

Input

Field	Type	Description
categoryCodes	array	Official FINESS category codes. Common ones: 500 EHPAD, 355 Centre Hospitalier, 101 CHR/CHU, 620 Pharmacie d'officine, 354 SSIAD. Empty = all categories.
departments	array	French department codes (59, 75, 2A, 971…). Empty = all of France.
categoryKeyword	string	Alternative to codes: match on the category label, e.g. "personnes agees", "pharmacie". Accent-insensitive.
searchKeyword	string	Match on facility name or city. Accent-insensitive.
maxResults	integer	Cap on returned facilities. 0 = unlimited (~100k facilities in the full registry).
includeGeolocation	boolean	Add WGS84 latitude/longitude converted from the official Lambert-93 coordinates (metropolitan France).

Example input

{
    "categoryCodes": ["500"],
    "departments": ["59", "62"],
    "maxResults": 500,
    "includeGeolocation": true
}

Output

One dataset item per facility, with an explicit status field (found / not_found / error):

{
    "status": "found",
    "finessEt": "590000000",
    "finessEj": "590781234",
    "name": "EHPAD LES ACACIAS",
    "categoryCode": "500",
    "categoryLabel": "Etablissement d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes",
    "address": "12 RUE DES LILAS",
    "postalCode": "59000",
    "city": "LILLE",
    "departmentCode": "59",
    "departmentLabel": "NORD",
    "phone": "0320123456",
    "siret": "12345678900012",
    "legalStatusLabel": "Etab.Public.Départ.Hosp.",
    "openingDate": "1985-01-01",
    "latitude": 50.6412,
    "longitude": 3.0573
}

Use cases

• B2B prospecting in the healthcare sector — build call/mail lists of EHPAD, clinics or pharmacies by department (wellness services, medical equipment, catering, staffing…).
• Market mapping & territory analysis — plot every facility of a category on a map using the included GPS coordinates.
• Data enrichment — join on siret with company registries to get financials and legal data.
• Compliance & referential syncing — keep an internal database of French health establishments aligned with the official registry.

Works well with

Pipe the siret field into French Company Data Enricher (SIREN) to enrich each facility with official company data, or monitor operator solvency with French Insolvency Checker (BODACC).

Limitations & fair use

• Data source: FINESS open data extraction on data.gouv.fr, refreshed roughly every 2 months by the Agence du Numérique en Santé. A new FINESS feed is being rolled out in 2026; this actor resolves the latest published resource dynamically.
• GPS conversion covers metropolitan France (Lambert-93). Overseas territories keep their raw projected coordinates in rawCoordX/rawCoordY.
• Please keep run frequency reasonable — the underlying file is a full registry download; daily monitoring is more than enough.
• Data is published under the French Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (attribution: FINESS / Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé).