Shortage Designation

What is Shortage Designation?

An overview of our work to alleviate health workforce shortages.

How we classify approved areas’ or populations’ need using socioeconomic, demographic, health, and health workforce factors.

Efforts focus on reviewing and approving shortage designation requests to prioritize and distribute federal resources.

The Project modernizes the shortage designation process with automated procedures and standardized data sets.

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