Geographic areas, populations and facilities with too few primary care physicians, dentists and mental health providers or services are considered Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA). Well-Ahead Louisiana uses these designations to focus our resources on meeting the healthcare needs of underserved...
To identify areas facing shortages of health care providers, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relies on its health professional shortage area (HPSA) designation system. HHS designates geographic, population-group, and facility HPSAs. HHS also gives each HPSA a score to rank its...
The US federal government designates Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) to distribute targeted resources to geographic areas with health care workforce shortages in primary care, dental care, and mental health.9 HPSA workforce-shortage designation is used to determine eligibility for more than ...
1 To help reverse this pattern, the federal government provides incentives, such as loan repayment programs, bonus payment programs, or programs to recruit noncitizen foreign medical graduates, for physicians practicing in primary care health professional shortage areas (PC-HPSAs), which are federally...
Health Professional Shortage Areas: Problems Remain with Primary Care Shortage Area Designation System To identify areas facing shortages of health care providers, HHS relies on its health professional shortage area (HPSA) designation system. HHS designates ... USGA Office - 《Government Accountability ...
Background: Primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) lack sufficient primary care providers to meet their health care needs, which contributes to worse health outcomes within underserved populations. Community pharmacies are commonly located in HPSAs and provide nondispensing services that ...
The prevalence and burdens of obesity-associated chronic conditions (OCC) are rising nationwide, particularly in health professional shortage areas (HPSA). This study examined the impact of access to primary care on health care utilization for vulnerable populations with OCC in the South.#Adult ...
Eligible healthcare facilitiescan apply to become National Health Service Corps (NHSC)-approved sites. NHSC-approved sites provide outpatient, primary health care services to people inHealth Professional Shortage Areas(HPSAs).Applications are closed for 2024. Check back for 2025 application deadlines....
Model Schematic and Dental HPSA Counties in the US View LargeDownload Illustration of the simulation model with a map representing county-level dental HPSAs. The map is not generated with the direct outputs of the restricted NHANES data. HPSAs refers to health professional shortage areas; NHANES,...
The research is intended to develop an integrated approach for defining Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) that may help the US Department of Health and Human Services and state health departments improve HPSA designation. 展开 关键词: Spatial accessibility Nonspatial factors Geographic information...